Guilty Foods

 We all have guilty food lusts or desires. Wether it is late night nachos or a chocolate enriched dessert. The point is we all have these desires. A good example of this is the Hot Brown.

PBS- Mind of a Chef- The Hot Brown

 

If you were wondering "Wild Turkey" is a brand of whisky. The point is even thought this dish was a health hazzard. That might cause diabeties if you eat it more than once a day. Also it was full of crappy turkey meat. As mentioned by David Chang. It was still some how delicous! As it was covered in lucious cheese and all those other bad things we love to eat, but know we should not.

 

David Chang's Hot Brown

 

As you can quite plainly see chef David Chang has taken this classic recipe and given it a modern lighter spin. This has given me the inspiration to make my own gunk food related recipe. In this case i am going to work with a movie theater classic and that is... you guessed it popcorn! For me what makes popcorn great is pleanty of salt and butter. Not good for the arteries... I know. However i still plan to use this ingredient in a dessert. Althought it can still be used in a savory dish as well.

Daniel Clifford's Wining Chicken Dish on Great British Menu

 

As you can see in the "cannoli" there is some truffled popcorn. Popcorn is a natural ingredient made from corn kernals. So don't judge a book by its cover. For my next post/recipe I plan to make a Goat's Milk Panna Cotta and serve it with a Rhubarb Jam, Caramel Popcorn and an Apple Cider Granita. So before you say I would never eat or cook with that ingredient take the time to think about it and just because it is considered "junk food" don't let that limit your thinking. Take inspiration from the chef in the video below.

Marcel Vigneron's Dragon Breath Popcorn

 

Article by Richard Craig