Grilled beef cheek w/ tomato- & horseradish sauce, spicy physalis salsa, yogurt, flour tortilla. I can eat a whole jar of that sauce—it is the frickin' bomb.



Finally got around to trying something I've been thinking of trying for a while. Toasted cream turned into toasted creme fraiche, served very cold with a very chocolatey chocolate cake (made with toasted flour--try it next time you bake a cake, it's super easy and tastes great), and then turned into butter. The butter is a rich, warm brown colour, with a deep, nutty flavour. The buttermilk looks gorgeous and tastes amazing. Haven't decided what to do with it yet but probably frosting. The cake was just shocking--it's basically a super simple mud-cake but it came out tasting very complex, with clear notes of not only chocolate but caramel and coffee, just rich enough and not at all sickly sweet as I'd feared. I left it in the oven a few minutes too long I think, but other than that I am very pleased with how all of this turned out.