Worship Oleana(2)

Goat cheese rice cake ( with golden raisin and pine nuts), champagne grape red wine sauce , champagne grape and baby arugula 

Seared scallop with warm Fig, Fig jam, crispy prosciutto, tomato beurre blanc

The first one was a big success, I am very proud of myself ! In Oleana, it was a grape leaves stuffed with goat cheese rice with champagne grape sauce and champagne grape. I made it over by  adding golden raisin and pine nuts, skipping grape leaves but pan fried it to give it a crispy outside, creamy inside.

As for the sauce, I boiled and reduced red wine with butter champagne grape and shallots, chicken stock, a little bit balsamic vinegar and pomegranate concentration , then blend it and filter to get the silky sauce.

The second one, it was a warm Fig , seared scallop with fig pistachio jam, underneath was tomato kisir. and pistachio cream 

It was too sweet for me, so I added prosciutto , which goes well with fig. I made fig, walnut jam by reducing red wine with dried fig, walnut, and blend to make a jam.

Didn't make pistachio cream , instead make berrue blanc as the fatty/cream part

It was OK, don't think the combination is a keeper.

ps: glad I can get some cooking inspiration back. I was frustrated by dining out more but little progress in cooking, now it seems to start getting paid back!  I appreciate....