Beef Onglet and Pomme Fondant with Egg and Chive Vinaigrette

At first glance this looks like just another beef dish, but the cut of meat that we used was quite different from a typical fillet. Instead we used a lesser-known cut of meat from diaphragm muscle. It’s kind of a gnarly looking muscle of two lobes connected by thick connective tissue, which go by more…

Open Lasagne of Lobster with Green Asparagus

When I heard we were making lobster lasagne I pictured the traditional layers of pasta saturated with oozing cheese and sauce and I couldn’t wait to make this dish! However when I saw that the ingredient list was alarmingly short and didn’t have either cheese or sauce I started getting curious as to what sort…

Roast Duck with Cloves and Honey

It’s our first practical of Superior and at 8am with barely a half cup of coffee in my system (i.e. not nearly enough…) I had my cleaver in hand ready for some duck butchery. Needless to say, we hit the ground running. We cooked duck breast once before in Intermediate but I confess it’s the…