Epic Caesar Salad

Yet another cooking recipe taken from the pages of sortedfood. This one is for an epic caesar salad made with home made mayo and a cool looking parmesan cheese bowl.

The thing that makes this super epic is really the parmesan cheese bowl which is simply to describe but hard to implement. First you have to grate a bunch of cheese into a circle. To get a really nice circle I actually used a cake form with a removable bottom.

This pan then goes into the oven to melt down for 15 minutes or so. After that time I had to pull the molten cheese off the tray and drap it over an upside down bowl... this is the hard part as it is molten cheese and neither of the 2 times I tried was I able to get it over the bowl without ripping the disk.

The first try was epically bad and turned more into a cheese plate than a cheese bowl

After that it was a simple process of making some mayo from scratch (lots of whipping) and thinning it down with some warm water.

The chicken was actually poached in water for 15 minutes or so in 80 degree water. After it was cooked through I simply sliced it up into nice chunks and grilled it on a hot grill pan to give it those nice grill marks.

Instead of croutons I made some herby crustini that were toasted with a little olive oil

 After this it was just a matter of final construction  with some sliced up cherry tomatoes and romain lettuce.

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