Intensity: MEDIUM-HIGH | Season: Strawberries starting, elderflower.

Main

Chicken liver parfait Mon → all week on toast

Sides

Cornichon + pickled onion · Myeolchi-bokkeum refresh · Kinpira carrot

Bread

Sourdough wheat + spelt · Glass bread · Pain de mie refresh

Porridge

Coconut + mango + lime (if mango available). Otherwise blueberry + lemon.

Breakfast

Porridge · Toast + parfait + pickled onion

Dessert

Dacquoise + strawberry elderflower curd → composed dessert Sat

Universal Components

Strawberry elderflower curd [CAFÉ] — Fourth curd. By now: curd is a platform. Any fruit + egg + butter + heat = curd.

Elderflower syrup [CAFÉ] — 1:1 sugar:water + elderflower. Same ratio works for any botanical: lavender, rose, chamomile. Infusion time is the variable.

🧪 Guar-stabilised vinaigrette — Add 0.1–0.3% guar to standard vinaigrette. 0.1% = barely noticeable body. 0.2% = holds together. 0.3% = getting thick. Compare with/without.

Ratios Introduced

• Dacquoise: 1:1:1 nut flour:sugar:egg white. ↑nut = denser. ↑sugar = crispier shell.