/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>9333785
>fresh corn and house smoked chili soup, creme fraiche, thai basil, redcurrants

Barely any ingredients in that soup but it came out so fucking good. Made corn stock from the cobs, toasted husks and silk, as well as a bit of leeks and carrot, simmered the corn and smoked chilies in that, pureed, seasoned, that was it.

>>9163179
This guy >>9105850 back from an insane stretch of work. There's a festival in town right now so we've been crazy busy.

Have a few things to post now though. Not as many process pictures as usual this time, should be more next time though.

Corn soup with home-smoked Portugal chili, creme fraiche, basil, fried corn, and redcurrants.

Shucked all my corn, cut the kernels off, and then roasted the husks and silk until really fragrant and golden, then roasted off half the cobs while keeping the other half raw. Made a really deep, flavorful corn stock out of that (along with basic aromatics- a little mirepoix, bay, and thyme). Smoked the chilies for 6 hours on applewood, then threw them right over the coals for a bit of char. Browned a shallot, added corn kernels and rough chopped chili, and simmered until the corn was tender and the liquid reduced by about 2/3, then pureed it. Super simple but the flavor was awesome, it's amazing how much complexity you can get out of very few ingredients if you put the work in.

The redcurrants seem a bit odd at first but they gave some really nice textural contrast and acid.