Giant "Tater Tots"

Potatoes are peeled. The peelings are roasted and infused into milk and cream mixture to give a baked potato flavor. The potatoes are cut into thick slices and allowed to come to a simmer for 4 minutes, they are then rinsed in cold water and covered with cold water, salted and returned to a simmer until tender. This removes starchy gelatinous texture that come from mashed potatoes.
The milk and cream mixture has gelatin sheets added before it's pureed into the potatoes.

The potato puree is allowed to set before it's breaded in shredded potato and panko.

After being fried for 5 minutes, the center is molten and fluid again.

There have been some problems with the crust bursting in the fryer, I think the addition of methocel will help this issue.

Pina Colada

Last year started a desire to come up with a pina colada dessert. I'm not sure why, I don't drink rum, I just like the combination of the flavors I guess.
Still playing around with Methocel F50, I have been working on frozen "mousses", this one is all pineapple juice. It wants to fall before it freezes though, I need to stabilize it more.
Strips of melt in your mouth pina colada mixer, grilled pineapple relish and rum caramel round everything out.
My dealings with desserts have been limited, but I really like working with them. I get frustrated though, not having someone around with a real passion and knowledge of desserts is a huge obstacle.

Grape Soda

Faygo anyone?
Foodland circa 1988, you pick up an empty bottom of a box that probably held a case of 12 to 16 oz. bottles of soda at some point(pop. The south has had an effect on me, I actually gave up the term "pop", I didn't think I would.....but here we are.). You fill it back up with whatever mixture of flavors you desire, then spend the next couple days with a purple-ish blue stain on your lips and tongue. Grape was a very popular flavor. For $.25 you could get a Grape soda out of the machine in front of Jets grocery.
Grape soda, grape soda, grape soda. Throw in Cream Soda (serious favorite), some Cherokee Red and Dr. Pepper....RC cause it's local, you've got a young boys carbonated sugar future sealed in cola trademarks.
I'm always looking for ways to incoporate favorite flavors from childhood, mine or anyone elses.






A recent purchase of Methocel f5o, has led to Grape Soda Meringue.
So many other possibilities.
Desserts mainly, but Mikey did mention vinegars....croutons maybe flavored with white balsamic and garlic?
Anything.