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An imaginary restaurant that will never open. Because it would be nothing but a giant money pit.

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Visions of sugar plums dance in our heads, in advance of our half-past Christmas picnic.
Shortbread cookies, summer strawberry cake, the beginnings of a mondo potato salad, and spicy Thai tofu.

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By birthday boy request, chocolate cake with fudge frosting and strawberry filling, decorated with a buttercream depiction of the SS City of Benares.

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Sourdough loaf.

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Bob Appétit is, of course, a legend in the cookery business. 🙄

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Bob Appétit’s ‘best risotto’ with seared BC lingcod from @OrganicOcean
Risotto recipe here: https://t.co/Z79DDOpMqT

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Peanut butter and jam chocolate cakes — chocolate cake, raspberry purée, peanut butter mousse, and chocolate mirror glaze.

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Kimchi steak sandwich with kimchi Béarnaise.

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Wagyu beef cheek, cooked brisket style. Served in a taco with avocado, pickled onions, poblano and cabbage slaw, accompanied with a lime margarita.

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Gumbo with scallops and shrimp.

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Avocado, hamachi, and seaweed chip poke. Followed by sous-vide octopus finished in the frying pan, fingerling potatoes, chorizo, and alioli.

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Blooming onion (plus some hot dogs on the kids’ menu…)

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To see out 2021 and ring in 2022, a menu of comfort foods inspired by the US, Japan, Spain, Louisiana, Mexico, Korea, and the US by way of a French patisserie.

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Raspberry chocolate mousse cakes with a chocolate mirror glaze.

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Jerusalem artichoke velouté to start, followed by a main of seared duck breast with veggies and potatoes.

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Exciting dinner prep. Duck-fat roasted potatoes with duck confit, carrots and cipollini onions awaiting sous-vide, duck breasts, scored and ready to sear.

Now if this kids would just go to bed…

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Triple layer Halloween birthday cake: chocolate layers filled with strawberry jam and spooky decorations.

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@tall_nl What we did was 12 hours at 135. Next time planning 24 hours at 145. They were delicious at the shorter time, but the chef insists it was not nearly long enough.

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Turkey wings cooked sous-vide with garlic and thyme, then broiled; cornbread and sausage stuffing; roasted turkey breast; green and yellow beans sautéed in butter and garlic.

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Happy thanksgiving!

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The chef advises the clarified butter is infused with rosemary and garlic, in addition to thyme. The previous tweet did not meet our rigorous editorial standards. The Money Pit regrets the error.

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Thanksgiving potatoes are a mix of russets and German butterballs, parboiled and then roasted in a thyme-infused clarified butter.