Matthew's Desserts

[Johnny West]

My sone has been experiment making desserts for the restaurant.

Here are some he posted to facebook the past few days.
The chocolate cake he named after my mother - it is her
recipe I gave him. I'll try and find the name of these in a bit.

He makes killer pies, too, but then he had a good professor.

Test on the panna cotta. Chai panna cotta, pineapple compote, roasted mango, sesame macaron(I think we will not go pink on the finished product), yuzu.

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Hazelnut brown butter cake, goat-cheese cremeux, yogurt bombe, blood orange. Could use a little red vein sorrel (the mint leaf if the modernist world).

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Grandma Jean's Chocolate Cake

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[Johnny West]

Here's his Key Lime Pie. When he was chef at the Home Port in Menemsha he made it in a traditional graham cracker crust - this place he's fancied it up.

There is no secret to Key Lime Pie, the recipe comes right off the bottle of juice.

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[Saliha]

Hazelnut brown butter cake, goat-cheese cremeux, yogurt bombe, blood orange. Could use a little red vein sorrel (the mint leaf if the modernist world).

Wow! That looks like the winter landscape. I could imagine this one as the dessert of the Christmas dinner. Maybe some icing sugar for the cake pieces (to describe the newly fallen snow) and it would be perfect end for the traditional dinner.

 

[QSis]

I thought the same thing, Leni - a Winter Wonderland!

They are all lovely, Johnny! Matthew is very talented!

Lee

 

[ChowderMan]

gorgeous stuff!

I just don't have the talent for those kinds of presentations - wish I did, but I don't.
I need a ruler just to drive a straight line on the autobahn.....

 

[Johnny West]

Cooking is like a performing art and he was good at acting and doing demonstrations. On MV he did many cooking dmos and helped with the high school "home ec" classes.

He was never a dessert person but having a dessert chef is expensive and even some of the better places don't have them. He took it upon himself to learn and make better desserts and candy.

Thanks for all the kind words, people. I'm chuffed I can share his work with you.

My favorite of his is still the plain ol wild blueberry pie with plain vanilla ice cream.

 

[QSis]

My favorite of his is still the plain ol wild blueberry pie with plain vanilla ice cream.

Of all of the desserts you've posted, I'd order that one, too!

Any time of year!

Lee

 

[Johnny West]

The blueberries he gets are from Maine and supplied by Sysco. I see the same brand at the commissary but have yet to buy any. This is big blueberry country and buy fresh local.