A massive thank you to all of you that came to The Annie Jones pop-up, it was great to have so much support and the fantastic feedback.
I couldn’t done it without a fantastic team behind me and they made my job so much easier, big kudos to them all!
More pics here…
To help with my fund raising for my trip to Maeemo in Norway, I’m going to be preparing a 4 course fine dining experience at Annie Jones in Petersfield. I used to work here and a big thanks to Steve and his team for helping me out with this.
Tickets should be available on “it’s coming home” Wednesday!
More details here…
This is the First Tester of a Trout, Almond and Broccoli dish Steve and I have been working on.
When the Trout arrives in the kitchen we take the centre piece of fish, cure it in a salt/sugar mix for 20 mins. After that it gets cold smoked for 5 mins. The belly piece of Trout I really like because it carries slightly more fat and delicious either raw or very lightly cooked.
For the garnish of the dish I made a roasted Almond Puree, an almond soup which is the sauce for the dish which I turned into little spheres using a technique called ‘reverse spherefication’ a chemical reaction occurs when the calcium in the soup reacts with the Sodium Alginate bath forming a skin around the sphere allowing the centre to remain in liquid form. All chemicals can be found from the MSK website.
The purple sprouting broccoli gets blanched in salted water and finished on our indoor BBQ.
I made a dressing from caviar, pickled lemon and olive oil.
The belly of Trout gets confit in oil at 40 degrees for 10 mins and topped with toasted nibbed almonds.
This is the first tester of a dish that I’m looking to put on the menu for summer, it has simple flavours combined with a handful of modern techniques that for me, deliver a great dish.
White chocolate Delice that been dipped in white chocolate and sprayed in cocoa butter,
Strawberry, champagne and elderflower sorbet, macerated strawberry.
Pistachio cake and sable crumb.
In my spare time I like to improve my baking skills, so at home I made this super soft and tasty bread.
Using buttermilk in the bread gave a much softer and dense texture, and with the smokey bacon flavour it was really enjoyable to eat with some soup the next day.
Before baking I brushed over some bacon fat and maldon salt and threw some cold water in the bottom of my oven at home to induce some steam resulting in a great crust.
In the restaurant we tend to have a lot of wastage when we use ingredients such as Cod.
So with this dish I’ve utilised all of the Elements.
The cod loin has been salted to draw out some water, then tied in cling film to keep a natural shape when cooking.
The trim from the belly I turned half into a mouse using the paco jet, and other half turned into salt cod which then gets diced along with dill, chives and lemon zest. Then the mouse gets wrapped in cucumber strips and steamed till the proteins are set.
Next on the dish I have some charred cucumber which gives a nice smokey/refreshing burst to the dish.
All the trimmings from cucumber gets burnt to an ash and then I dress the confit potatoes in the ash and dill oil, which brings an umami element.
I made a cucumber ketchup – recipe I got when I did a stage at ‘Dinner by Heston’
All gets finished with a seaweed and Oyster beurre blanc.