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==== Latelab Menu (Draft) ====

**DRAFT** for the LateLab Open Sauces menu. The dishes and the flow are still very much a work in progress.

=== Aperitif ===

[[food_scenarios|Four futures]] amuse bouche

  * beer/whiskey aperitif
  * deep-fried mussel & chip
  * local pickle
  * seasonal vegetable skewer (with intensely flavoured green sauce/dipping oil)
  * pill-shaped potato & leak sorbet

fresh apple juice and shizo martini

=== Cold & playful ===

[[food_scenarios_continue|Continuation of]] (deep fried) sushi with Scottish ingredients (substitute rice with barley, fish with haggis, seaweed with red cabbage...)

  * dominant tastes: sweet and salty; bite-sized 2-3 pieces, brightly coloured, delicate presentation; 

Edible sphere of water (??)


=== Warming & liquid ===

[[food_scenarios_discipline|Disciplined]] nettle soup (or other seasonal wild leafy greens) with sour cream, sprinkled with basil or parsley (essential) oil, served with raw linseed/hemp/mixed seed cracker (roughly broken into uneven chunks)

  * well balanced full taste with pungent flavour accents; small soup bowls served individually, crackers shared from the centre of the table; 

=== Intense & strange ===

[[food_scenarios_collapse|Collapse]] dish served in sequence: to begin with only one small deep-fried potato skin (sprinkled with truffle/mushroom oil) on a big plate.; followed by (if available) a deep fried insect; followed by a pickled shellfish/sea urchin/fish/vegetable with seaweed; followed by a bite-sized mock-meat or tofu and mushroom stew (pink or blue oyster mushroom, or other strangely shaped/coloured fungus, such as the monkey head mushroom, [[Hericium erinaceus]], prepared to look like organ meat.

  * dominant tastes: sour, salty, umami, pungent

Smokey whiskey cocktail (or 'wee dram')


=== Familiar & nourishing ===

[[food_scenarios_discipline|Disciplined]] vegetarian shepherd's pie (substitute meat with mushrooms, smoked seitan, nuts, wild asparagus...), with local beer reduction

  * predominance of umami taste, juicy; served in a small portion, 'relaxed' or rustic presentation; 

local beer brewed using variant on traditional recipes (perhaps something from BrewDog such as Libertine Black Ale, Cocoa Psycho or Tokyo?)



=== Light & ephemeral ===

A few small bite-sized portions of desserts such as:
  * [[food_scenarios_transform|Transformed]] tipsy laird meets [[:open_sauces/smoke_vapour_recipes#smoked_garlic_tiramisu|smoked garlic tiramisu]]
  * spring flowers edible perfume
  * liquid fudge
  * sniffable raw cacao & maca powder
  * (goat) cheese crisps with popping sugar
  * light sponge with the appearance of a moon-rock


  * tastes: surprising, following [[http://www.foodpairing.com/en/home|flavour pairing]] principles; dishes served in laboratory glass

Fresh fruit or vegetable cocktails, such as [[:open_sauces/smoke_vapour_recipes#beetroot_cocktail|beetroot cocktail]], variation on tea and coffee, or ...