Liquid nitrogen vanilla ice cream with John Placko on eatlivetravelwrite.com

Les Petits Chefs make gingerbread micro sponge with candy cane ice cream and raspberry niblets with John Placko

^^^ That’s quite the mouthful, isn’t it? Literally! This week we were so lucky to welcome Chef John Placko of Modern Culinary Academy back to the lab for a little dabble in the molecular cuisine side of cooking.  John has worked with the boys a number of times before – they’ve made melon caviar, yoghurt … Read more

Orange jelly cubes and pomegranate caviar on eatlivetravelwrite.com

French Fridays with Dorie: (not) Arman’s Caviar in Aspic

So yeah, with just under 5 months’ of  recipes left from Around my French Table for French Fridays with Dorie, we’re into the “bits and pieces” and “odds and ends”. Such as this week’s “Caviar in Aspic”.  Actually it’s caviar ON aspic if we’re being nit-picky.  Dorie’s recipe headnote recounts a fancy passed hors d’oeuvre … Read more

A Molecular cuisine session for kids bruleeing sous vide bananas with John Placko Les Petits Chefs Mardi Michels eatlivetravelwrite.com

Sous vide caramelized bananas with coconut gel and snow by Les Petits Chefs and Chef John Placko

If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you’ll know that when it comes to cooking with kids, I like to set the bar high. I mean, like, extremely high.  The boys are rarely fazed by dishes that may appear difficult (sushi springs to mind) because they don’t have pre-conceived notions about the level … Read more