Ideas and inspirations come at you from all directions. I have worked with quite a few chefs whom claim to have there best ideas come to them in there dreams. I have never had a wonderful creation come to me in my dreams but this one did come up while I lay restless in bed one early morning after going through one of my sleepless nights.
I had been working on some ideas for a themed dessert for a upscale steakhouse/grill room. This is the outcome. I soon after realized where I got the inspiration subconsciously when I started googling steak and tuna tartare images. I knew I had seen something similar. There it was, under pressure, a book I have opened very briefly once or twice when I first got it maybe 6+ months ago. They made theirs with compressed watermelon while mine was made with papaya.
There is a disk of palm sugar panna cotta hidden in the papaya tartare. I paired it with lime ice cream, sweet avocado, coconut powder and a coconut mango yolk. Later came dehydrated olive oil microwave sponge but that was after the picture.
Fun dessert, would be better if I liked papaya. I tried compressing the papaya with several syrups with rum and lime which I liked better but in the end you could not taste the papaya, so whats the point. In the end au natural papaya.
Sources of inspirations and ideas are endless. Especially with a the amazing books being put out over the years. Along with the internet and the constant supply of rad food blogs out there it is easy to find others ideas in your own, even when unintentional.
