I was attempting to develop a variation on poutine that I’m calling “Poutine Amélioré”.
Here they are out-of-the-oven, baked and cheesed. I packed them in Tupperware and brought them to the office party the next day, where I will finished them off:
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cut gelatinized chicken reduction into small cubes and placed one in each potato cube.
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fired up a blow torch (OK, a small culinary blow torch, but a blow torch nonetheless) and melted the reduction while warming the potato/cheese.
Served.
Well I WAS going for pretentious, but I agree “recomposée” may work better… but it doesn’t SOUND better, I love the sound of “amélioré” (a lovely French word that even my grating Boston accent can’t mess up…too badly…)