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Provencal Grilled Vegetable "Cake"

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    Posted: 21 July 2019 at 10:48
Let's get Cheffy Wink

This celebration of Summer is a PITA to make (takes 2 days) but so worth it

Ingredients:
Grilled eggplant
Grilled zucchini
Grilled summer squash
Grilled red bell peppers
Grilled yellow bell peppers
Grilled Poblano peppers
Wilted Spinach
Mushrooms duxelles
A grilled bouquet made of onion, garlic, shallots, herbs de Provence, fresh thyme, fresh oregano, evoo wrapped in foil and grilled
Fire roasted Fennel
Provencal Tomato Fennel Marmalade

A few peppers

Grilling eggplant

zucchini

Peppers

Summer squash

Roma tomatoes

The cake was assembled in an acetate lined 9" cake ring and weighted overnight to remove excess moisture and mold the "cake". Next day the weights were removed and the Tomato Fennel marmalade was added to the top. The mushroom duxelles layers were not as wide as the pic shows.
The weights caused the shrooms to move up along the ring, unfortunately, covering some of the other veggie layers. I'll take that into consideration next time .

Ring mold and acetate were removed and voila...


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Wow! Great job, amazing 'cake' Thumbs Up
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Gracoman,

Superbly splendid absoutely !!

Have a lovely summer.   


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Wow! Just wow!

And I thought making grillled veggies on a focaccia loaf was time-consuming.
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Really exemplary labors and wonderful photography too. 


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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote gracoman Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 22 July 2019 at 19:02
I found this grilled vegetable cake to be absolutely magnificent served warm. Cold, not so much. Cold doesn't do much for the flavor of savory dishes but I tried it anyway.

Meh.

I suppose room temp service would be okay but I found that two to three minutes in the microwave changes this from merely good to spectacular. I don't write or say OMG often but I'll leave it here today. I wasn't sure if slices would hold their shape in the microwave but they did that nicely. The compression did its job. Dense, flavorful, fire roasted and downright wonderful.

All in all there is a lot going on with this thing. One of the better things I've made. In my book, it's a real winner that will impress anybody.


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Sensational really.

I like cold aubergine (eggplant ) ..  Like antipasti in a tart  ! 

i would have to try a forkbite cold and see -- and a forkbite between warm and hot -- 

Then I could say, I prefer one way or another --  But it is definitely on my AUTUMN TO DO LIST !

I would use only red and green bells, of course traditional violet  aubergines  and zucchine verses other types of squash (not fond of ) and no mushrooms ..  

Definitely the rest I would follow and use local Basque Red Esplette Chili Peppers.  








 
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The idea is very interesting, probably should try it this week! I had no chance to cook something like this recently because of the lack of good grill, but our friends gifted us one two month ago and it is a great chance to try it. Wanna say that this grill looks pretty modern. If you are wondering wher to find best weber charcoal grill you may check the website above and read some reviews about modern kitchen appliances. Hope it helps!  Smile
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