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updated 7/13/2012 12:46:57 PM ET 2012-07-13T16:46:57

Recipe: French summer tomato salad

Ingredients
  • Assortment of baby tomatoes
  • 1 3/4 tsp sea salt
  • 1/4 cup of pickled baby red onions
  • 3 oz of goat fromage blanc
  • Fresh lemon thyme
  • Nasturtiums flowers
  • Olive oil
  • Sherry vinegar
  • Sea salt to finish
Preparation

1. Rinse the tomatoes, poach them and peel them.

2. Salt them and add olive oil.

3. Add sherry vinegar, and let them marinate for one hour.

4. Pick the lemon thyme leaves and pickled red onions (can also be pre-pickled red onions)

Presentation:

1. Arrange tomatoes in a bowl.

2. Add fromage blanc in the plate, then arrange the tomatoes interlacing.

3. Sprinkle the tomato with lemon thyme, pickled onions and nasturtiums flowers.

4. Finish with a sea salt.

Recipe: Vegan cherry ice cream with oat-basil soil and chocolate branches

Ingredients
  • 1 1/3 lbs pitted cherries
  • 2/3 cup sugar
  • 3 tbsp of cherry liquor
  • 1 can of coconut milk
  • 1/2 cup of almond milk
  • 1 vanilla pod split lengthwise
  • 1/4 cup freeze-dried coconut
  • 2 cups oats
  • 2 bunches of basil
  • 8 oz of 70% chocolate
  • 8 cups of ice cold water
Preparation

Ice cream preparation:

1. Clean cherries, remove pits and slice in halves.

2. In a bowl, macerate the cherries for 6 hours with the cherry liquor and 25 g of sugar. Strain after 6 hours into separate container.

3. Mix the rest of the sugar, coconut milk, almond milk, vanilla and coconut with the cherries. Chill in fridge for 4 hours.

4. Pour the mixture into an ice cream maker and churn according to the manufacturer' s instructions.

Oat preparation:

1. Toast oats for 10 minutes at 350 degrees in oven. Shuffle occasionally to ensure even toasting.

Basil preparation:

1. Use fresh basil leaves

2. Fry leaves at 350 degrees in oil

3. Dry leaves and crumble them

Chocolate branches preparation:

1. Temper the chocolate

2. Transfer into a pastry bag

3. Squeeze the chocolate in ice cold water and form branches.

4. Remove from water and chill in freezer

Presentation:

1. Scoop ice cream into a bowl.

2. Garnish with oats, basil and chocolate branches

Recipe: French 74 cocktail

Ingredients
  • For cocktail:
  • 6 oz "gin" (see below)
  • 2 oz simple syrup
  • Juice of 2 lemons
  • 8 oz champagne
  • 2 egg whites
  • For "gin":
  • 1 bottle sake
  • 1/6 cup juniper
  • 1/4 cup lavender herbes de provence
  • 1 tbsp plus 1 tsp clove
  • 1 lemon peel
Preparation

1. To create the gin, mortar and pestle herbs then steep in sake with lemon peel for 24 hours.

2. Strain herbs from the liquid.

3. Place all ingredients (except champagne) in an ISI soda siphon, outfitted with a soda cartridge.

4. Spray "foam" over champagne

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