Salty cakes, tender to the touch, soothing to the nerves, expanding to the stomach.
This is a round, juicy salad of apples and walnuts, topped by a rich, tender layer of duck confit, topped in turn by a round, crisp, salty potato cake; the result is nearly ideal.
Seafood didn't fare quite so well: the skate, while crispy, was too salty, the crab cake too dry.
Take for instance a salted duck-egg yolk in a sweet moon cake, salty-sweet coconut cream dribbled over sticky rice and served with lusciously sweet mangos, or fried onions and garlic sprinkled over a creamy rich and sweet coconut egg custard.
The First Class Camouflage flavor is made up of Chocolate, Salty Caramel, and Cake-flavored ice cream and the actual Camouflage waffle cones and bowls are green, brown and tan.
Grilled peaches, for instance, are served with an aggressively salty brown-butter almond cake, corn gelato, and a syrup made from anise hyssop, more licorice than mint.
RECOMMENDED DISHES California omelet; vegetable frittata; sashimi of salmon and tuna; Cobb salad; hanger steak salad; trout; New York steak; pan-roasted chicken; chocolate cake with salty-sweet miso.
Specific food choices were discussed and participants were advised on choosing wholegrain and higher fibre foods, reducing fatty and processed meats and high fat dairy products and increasing oily fish and limiting foods such as cakes, biscuits, salty snacks and takeaway meals.
At Ubi Maior the group breaks for dinner, a buffet of porchetta (pork stuffed with rosemary and olive oil), pasta fagioli, slabs of salty pecorino cheese and rum cake.
