Do you remember the
recipe that i got scolded for?
Well, as announced it was implemented. Following all the goring details, step by step, ingredients tsp by tsp. Even the minutage... That's the way if one wants to understand a recipe. Chef school style. And with the perfectionist love for details of the girl with red umbrella it is quite simple to follow.
First problem, I had the cumin and the coriander whole and not powdered. So I crushed them in the spice mortar.
Second problem, instead of chili I put in a tiny peperoncino that our domestic assistant brings up from calabria and I put under oil. I licked my fingers after and I had to eat 1 tsp of honey.
Third problem. I wanted not to change the oil I roasted the chicken for the second part. And then I said to myself, what the heck, if I wanto to reach that flavor I have to follow the recipe, which I did.
Fourth problem. When cooking the onioms I resisted salting them in advance. I followed the minutage exactly with my Citizen Radio Controlled and Solar Energized watch.
Then just before setting it to simmer one bubble every other second, I realized I forgot the peperoncino. Quickly solved.
After one hour, I did the final passage without having to adjust anything.
Put the Crozes Hermitage 2006 in the fridge to come down to those 14°C I wanted it and fixed the legumes.
In the mean time Little Daughter woke up from her late afternoon beauty nap. I was waken by the smell of food. Is it good? Very good.
You see the table set and all the trimmings. Not indian or tutkish bread but focaccia.
Then I asked LittleDaughter hoew is it (she ate all of it) buono, cosė cosė, non buono (good, so and so, not good). Buonississimo. (very very good) and that is the best compliment to Ea the great Chef.
The famous sauce. Ambrosia. A very light oriental tint, perfectly balanced by the peperoncino, with those doses. Roughly crushed cumin and coriander from time to time surprised me with a little firecracker of taste. In the mouth the taste keeps shifting around. Delicious. I would use it on whiite fish like cod or shark. Wine was absolutely a perfect match.