Lately I have been doing all of the ice carvings for our three weekend buffers. This honu has its flaws, but I carved it completely free-hand and it seems to have turned out pretty good.
Here are a couple of food shots we took from our main dinner restaurant. Although our original food photographer canceled last minute, we were able to bring in another photographer. He had no experience in food photography, so we didn't know what we were in for. I am happy with the results.
The above image is a renovated version of the house smoked salmon appetizer. It includes a nest of Molokai sweet purple potatoes, mango pico de gallo, cilantro-kaffir lime leaf puree, guajillo salt and pomegranate "caviar". Our Lobster salad also uses the Molokai purple sweet potato, which it is wrapped in and fried. The salad also has fresh mache, blueberries, edamame, avocado, tomatoes, mango and aquaponic baby lettuces wrapped in fresh cucumber. The big island honey with vanilla-citrus vinaigrette finishes the dish nicely.
Our lamb entree consists of an ancho braised lamb shank and seared rack of Australian lamb. The parsnip puree serves as the starch on the dish and the grape d...
All Said and done, it was a VERY LONG DAY, but it finished nicely with this wine dinner featuring Rombauer Wines. We had a fun time creating these dishes and I believe the hard work paid off. We had 3 emersion circulators going for the Kangaroo, Veal and the House Dry Aged Beef Tenderloin Brochettes. Thank you to all who attended the dinner, and especially to my great team for making it happen tonight.
Here is our current scallops dish from the menu. It is a cumin and corriander dusted U10 scallop, with roasted bell pepper-potato puree, cilantro chimichurri and fresh lilikoi sauce. We serve it with local pohole ferns from our good friends at Hana herbs. Such a nice scallop dish.
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