Category: food styling

• Test Kitchen – veg’fudge?

  

  Recently i enjoyed some mind-blowing koji parsnip for dinner. It was the ‘celebration’ dinner actually after the successful dry January and elimination diet… i cooked some very simple risotto and served it with koji inoculated parsnips. I am not going to lie at this point – after a dry month i got quite drunk with…

  Kat

  February 14, 2022

  culinary, elimination diet, fermentation, food styling, Foodporn, home cooking, kitchen, koji, technique, testkitchen, vegetarian, wine

  brine, dehydrating, dinner, fermentation, Foodporn, fudge, inoculating, koji, kojifudge, parsnip, rehydrating, roasting, swede, test, test kitchen, umami, veg fudge, vegetables

• TEST KITCHEN – celeriac bacon?

  

  Ok. How far your brain can go? How insane I can possibly be? How many people are hanging a roasted inoculated dehydrated smoked ages celeriac bulb in their bedroom loft? Do I really want to know? As I said before a couple of times – my ‘geniusness’ will be appreciated only after my death. Or…

  Kat

  January 10, 2022

  art, culinary, dairyfree, diet, elimination diet, fermentation, food styling, Foodporn, foraging, glutenfree, infusing, kitchen, koji, sugarfree, technique, testkitchen, vegan, vegetarian

  ageing, awamori, bacon, celeriac, charcuterie, fermentation, koji, smoking, vegan, veganbacon, veganfood

• Koji-collab – CANCELLED.

  

  BUT. So the collab has been cancelled – for whatever reasons. BUT. I never leave a job unfinished – so I’ve decided to cook my menu all way thru. To see what I had imagined. Mozzarella, preserved lemon and alexander Made a shio, dropped some lemon halves innit, let it mature for a week and…

  Kat

  December 21, 2021

  culinary, fermentation, food styling, Foodporn, foraging, friends, home cooking, kitchen, koji, restaurant, technique, testkitchen

  6courses, Amino tonic, Aminos, brainstorming, Christmas vibe, collaboration, Foodporn, foraging, havingfun, koji, Kojimenu, miso, Seasonal, Seasonal food, Sustainability

• TEST KITCHEN – Kojiriac’

  

  Hello THere! I’m back with another interesting bit. You all remember I grew koji on beetroot not long time ago. I did it again – just using one of my big love as a vegetable – Mr Celeriac. I wanted to try this anyway – but also as a part of my koji-cooking-off menu for…

  Kat

  December 13, 2021

  culinary, fermentation, food styling, Foodporn, foraging, glutenfree, home baking, home cooking, infusing, kitchen, koji, technique, testkitchen, vegetarian

  awamori, awamori koji, brine, brined, brown butter, celeriac, celeriac steak, dandelion, delicious food, experiment, fermentation, foraging, glaze, koji, koji menu, koji water, kombucha, salt baked, test kitchen, walnut

• Christmas koji’collab

  

  Hello hello friends! I’m very happy to announce… i have a fabulous collaboration coming up with one of the sweetest chefs around Brighton, Chef Lambert and the two intellectually advanced doctors, the Koji Kins. November and December are the busiest months for all of us so I was happily surprised when they asked me up…

  Kat

  November 24, 2021

  fermentation, food styling, Foodporn, foraging, friends, koji, leftover, photography, restaurant, technique, vegetarian

  cheflife, christmas, christmasvibe, collaboration, december, degustation, dinner, exciting, fermentation, koji, kojikin, menu

• ‘TEASER’ – Forage to Fork

  

  Let me show you some bits from my upcoming foraging cooking book – so you can decide easier if it’s the type of book you want to keep on the shelf or not. After the introduction, the first part of the book is about the little plants growing around. The second part of the book…

  Kat

  October 26, 2021

  art, culinary, fermentation, food styling, Foodporn, foraging, home baking, home cooking, infusing, kitchen, memories, photography, technique

  book, bookproject, foragedfood, foraging

• TEST KITCHEN – Koji’beet

  

  So i tried another brilliant thing. Vegetable charcuterie. But it wasnt easy i tell you. Im reading a lot about koji and techniques right? Keep learning new things all the time. Got some brilliant books – one of them is Koji Alchemy from Jeremy Umansky, Rich Shih and Sandor Ellix Katz . Well they are…

  Kat

  September 12, 2021

  culinary, fermentation, food styling, Foodporn, glutenfree, kitchen, koji, noma, technique, testkitchen, vegan, vegetarian

  aspergillus oryzae, beetroot, brine, charcuterie, cheflife, curing, dehydrating, fermenting, growing mold, koji, likemeat, mold, risotto, root vegetables, salt, salting, timing, vegetables

• TEST KITCHEN – kojeese ageing

  

  Hello hello Everyone. Thanks for joining me. Not going to talk too much sh@t apart from the things you are here for. :) So approx 25 days ago me and my very sweet cheesemaker Chef friend Szabi jumped into some crazy cheesemaking project while we inoculated our fresh raw milk with white rice and black…

  Kat

  August 9, 2021

  culinary, fermentation, food styling, Foodporn, friends, home baking, home cooking, infusing, kitchen, koji, noma, technique, testkitchen, vegetarian

  ageing, ash, cheese making, cheese-making, delicious, experiment, fermentation, flavours, Foodporn, inoculated, kitchen, kojeese, koji, molds, orange wine, palinka, pizza, spirit, test kitchen, wine

• TEST KITCHEN – real kojeese’

  

  — i share these experiments to learn from mistakes and growing together with knowledge – but i also dont take any responsibility if you follow my way and getting into some troubles. I can not be blamed and be responsible for any consequences of misreading and/or misunderstanding any information written herein, so be crazy as…

  Kat

  July 28, 2021

  fermentation, food styling, Foodporn, home cooking, kitchen, koji, photography, technique, testkitchen

  ash, aspergillus oryzae, awamori, black, challenge, cheese making, contamination, cultures, curd, kojeese, koji, milk, oryzae, rennet, spirit, spores, umami