Any Real Chefs Or Epicureans Here ?

Bouno apetito Dirty D :

Congrats on your choice to go to a culinary school , you will not be disappointed at all I'm sure . If you have anywhere near as good a time I had I know you will have a ball learning about one of the most important things a person can learn and that is the best way to purchase , cook and preserve foods !

Chicken & fish/seafood are really super important foods to learn about and how they are a benefit to one's diet so your on the right track on this approach .

In Hawaii I learned about :

" lau lau " .

This incorporates many things in a steamed way to cook by binding the food(s) inside three " ti " ( pronounce " tee or tea " ) leaves in a triangular method to creat a " pouch " to put stuff into it . Traditional Hawaiian lau lau is a piece of pork and or beef , a piece of taro , ( the staple of Hawaii's food ie . " poi " ) butterfish , limukohu ( a really sweet and wonderful flavored seaweed ) sea salt . You steam these till the taro is tender like a potato . A small Chinese bamboo steamer works really well .

Pics of lau lau and it's preparation :

http://images.google.com/imgres?img...firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&sa=N

This is a typical Hawaiian style " plate lunch " special with :

lau lau (top left) consists of luau (taro) leaves that are wrapped around some chunks of beef, pork or chicken then steamed inside a ti leaf until the luau leaves are tender and the meat inside is cooked. I believe this lau lau contained beef. There was also a very tiny piece of salted butterfish inside to give this added flavor.

http://onokinegrindz.typepad.com/ono_kine_grindz/images/alamoanapoibowl3.jpg

And step by step pics :

http://www.aroundhawaii.com/lifestyle/food/2006-05_lau_lau.html

Hope this gives you some insight , chicken can be substituted here easily

Two types of Butterfish :

http://www.clovegarden.com/ingred/img/sf_pomfret05g.jpg

&

http://homepage.mac.com/imalbon/iblog/C681409336/E20060206231426/Media/escolar.jpg

Taro root ( grows like a potato kinda ) :

http://justhungry.com/files/images/satoimo1.jpg

Limukohu :

http://www.hawaii.edu/reefalgae/publications/ediblelimu/codium72.jpg

Aloha

Local Boy

 

made a boo boo

 

My friend , your a defacto chef / epicurean to be sure ! It's obvious you have been around a real chef(s) because that presentation was a " classic " ! :

So you have been a GM too cool , I only worked where the men work - - in the kitchen of hotels ( include a 5 star Michilin hotel ) heh heh pardon the old chef pun , but , I always kept my GM happy always too .

Osso bucco is one of my fav's too ! If ya got good buds ( remember flavor is the key here ) and add some instead of what ever spice(s) you like to the osso bucco recipe it will be over the top !

I worked Hawaii and southern California areas and got my culinary degree from a local culinary academy here in southern California . What hotel areas did you work ? Also here and Hawaii I played music professionally too while working in hotel and restaurant kitchens .

I will check out your thread " What's For Dinner " too , easy blood


Aloha

Local Boy

 

OSG :

Truly you are an epicurean to the max , I wanted to also compliment your osso bucco too , that was quite an elegant presentation too !

I love cooking for my wife as well because when mama's happy , she makes me happier

Aloha

Local Boy