Began cooking my way through the new cookbook from El Bulli chef/founder Ferran Adrià. Two meals down with one minor disaster.
- Meal 1 went great: burgers, Caesar salad, and Santiago cake (lemon and almond meal) The burgers were simple, but perfect, same with the salad — one minor quibble with the cake, no mention of the size of the pan for the 6-person serving in the recipe.
- Meal 2 went less well. The bolognese sauce was more than perfect, and the fish stew (substituting better-than-bullion’s fish stock and Sockeye salmon for the Mackerel) was great. However, the Chocolate cookie recipe remains a complete mystery. Cannot make heads or tails of the proportions, even after three attempts I am left with puddles of sugar and chocolate. Maybe the French version will avoid the translation errors. I have an email out with the publisher for an errata source.
Edit: Phaidon never responded.
Edit : I figured out the cookie recipe: here.