Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Grate Your Marcona Almonds Like José Andres

I had the inkling last week to begin marathon viewing sessions of Molto Mario and José Andres on hulu.com.  After honestly becoming a bit bored with the window deep into the Italian soul, I began my session with José.  He was visiting his home province of Asturias and using the famous apples and Cabrales cheese there to make a salad, which while looking delicious, did not stand out as anything particularly earth-shattering.  Until...he grated a Marcona almond with an upside down microplane zester and tapped the resulting almond powder onto the salad.  My eyes were wide as saucers.  Behold.

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