Burrata Cheese & Heirloom Tomatoes

From my understanding, burrata cheese is mozzarella cheese that had been injected with milk churds and young mozzo. Tim heard about this cheese after his brother and friend BT were raving about having it at restaurants. We had to give it a try, so Tim put his name on the AG Ferrari waitlist for this specialty Italian import. We got call, picked up our order, and grabbed a few heirlooms at farmer's market. We slitted all of the seeds out and stuffed the cheese in with fresh pieces of basil. Invited D&N over and ate it with a sprinkle of salt & pepper. If you're wondering how it taste, I would describe as an extra buttery (think triple cream) smooth mozzo with creamy bits that gave a nice texture contrast to the stringy outside layer.

Ravioli

More from Italian Dinner night! So Ying made some freah mushroom ravioli from scratch!!!!!!! j/k... But it sure did taste good. She sauteed some mushrooms and grape tomatoes with the mushroom ravioli. The entire dish was finished off with some truffle oil. Good!

 

Sea Scallops with Watercress

So Ying and I are infatuated with Watercress salads. About a year ago, i made her this dish for an anniversary dinner. Since then she has been hooked on this!

So in general this dish includes a watercress salad on the bottom with a lime/champagne orange viniagrette. Some hot crispy bacon is mixed into the salad to add some bacon fat and some flava. Seared Sea Scallops are put on top, then finally a lil more dressing is put onto the dish. I love this dish!

 

Bruschetta for da soul

Although I try to claim the fame for this bruschetta recipe, Ying has learned the tricks of the trade and can produce the same reults.

I originally learned how to make bruschetta from my brother when i was 18 years old. Then Danny introduced me to roasted garlic and my relationship with garlic has absolutely grown.

My Bruschetta recipe includes
Fresh vine ripe tomatoes(must be good quality and sweet). Dice the tomatoes and leave the seeds/juice in! The juice binds veerything together.

Roasted Garlic
Fresh Garlic
Great olive oil
Salt
Pepper
Fresh Basil
Good brea toasted(grillled on the bbq with some evoo and some roasted garlic paste makes it near phenomenal)

Enjoy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Bad food in Mendocino

So here is a story of the worst 150 dollars ever spent. This restaurant known as St. orress in Gualala, ca(middle of nowhere)
produced one of the oddest meals i have ever had.

Starters $15/piece
The mushroom ravioloi(their signature dish that the waiters have to fight over............right...............) this dish was o.k
The crab cakes (Honestly I would have to say the Van Kamps fish sticks are a bit better). Zero stars for the taste and 5 stars for the nice squiggly designs on the plates.

Prix Fixe Menu 45 bucks
Hot fennel soup (Safeway soup will smash on this crap).
The worst thing of all was after serving us our appetizers and soup, they gave us this watermelon aruguale goatcheese
thing. This think looked great, but then after eating all these different hot/cold items and 7 wineries, this cooling effect the watermelon gave us made us want to puke. Both of went to the restoom after this but luckily nothing bad happened. However ,
flushing these toilets were extremely weird. They have a tubes that go along te back of the toilet and a big white porcelain box.
We then found out after much investigation that u must pull this giant lever to flush the toilet(made me wanna puke even more).
We come back to our seats and we get ready for our entrees. She got filet mignon and i got lamb. Both were overcooked and lacked much flavor. I returned my dish. The worst thing is that the chef pairs her meat entrees with carrots, baby tomatoes, eggplant, and corn bits. This was not a vegetarian dish. I don't think there could be a worst combination of food here. At least give me a slop of garlic maches potatoes or some type of rissotto.


We both had about two bites of our food and the rest went into a brown bax that was heated the next morning for breakfast.
Got the bill, paid 150 bucks and never felt so happy to leave this shithole.