Culinary Adventure Dinners

A rather unusual project for a portfolio but very much in the “User Experience” category: As a team, I design and cook a themed dinner for 10-12 guests with Elisabeth Alsen once a year. As a guest you have to be keen to experiment: we like to cook mealworms or use ash as an ingredient …

Everything starts with the decision on a subject. Ideas for the courses are refined and test cooked. The logistics for shopping, detailed planning of cooking in the evening, so that all courses have the right temperature and so on – that’s all positive stress and a lot of fun!

Concept for a multi-course dinner: concept and the cooking, invitation and menu design and food photography

Here is a selection of the most exciting topics and dishes:

Play with your Food

Reispapier-Cracker und Farben: Rote Beete-Dill, Süßkartoffel-Kurkuma, Erbse-Minze und Rucola-Pesto.

Malkasten:

Malkasten
Rice paper and Krupuk crackers can be painted with beet root and dill, sweet potato and turmeric, pea and mint, and rocket pesto pastes.

Murmelsack: Birne, Blauschimmelkäse und pickled onion marbles, reverse spherified walnut dressing.

Murmelsack
Pear, blue cheese and pickled onion marbles, reverse spherified walnut dressing.

Geisterbahn: geröstete Mehlwürmer auf grünem Gazpacho mit Kapuzinerkresse (visual effects: Trockeneis)

Geisterbahn
Roasted Mealworms and green Gazpacho (special effects by Dry Ice)

Opposites Attract

Rich and Poor
Sun chokes with leek ash and cauliflower truffle puree with gold

Inside and Outside
Chicken liver mousse with a chicken skin cracker

Light and Dark

Wild rice and beluga lentils under horse radish cole slaw under leafy greens and sprouts in lemon tahini dressing under raw radish salad under aubergine skin chips with sesame dressing