Roast Tentacle Au Jus

An elegant addition to your Halloween spread.

I've included enough direction that you can follow along with what I've done, but this project is extremely flexible so please feel more than free to flex your creative muscles. If you try this project please post pictures.

Step 1 Get Creative

Take some time to meditate on how you want your creation to look.

Some things to consider
Colour: picking the right colour is important, for instance blue-green tentacle on green lettuce turned out to be a poor choice
Cross-Section: the slices should look interesting on a plate
Overall Appearance: should look good from above
Appeal: do you want people to be too grossed out to try it?
Taste: I think trying to get jello to taste good is an uphill battle, so I planned on this being more of a centre piece than a menu item (the cranberry juice tasted pretty good, but no one ate it anyway)
Plating: how will it fit on the platter? is there a sauce to go with it? what's the garnish? I laid out some precut slices so people wouldn't feel bad about cutting it.
Concept: The idea I was going for was "what if alien was served at fancy dinner parties?".
Alien? you don't have to make an alien appendage. Preserved flesh takes on a certain translucence that would be interesting to recreate.

Comments

[Momghoti]

lemonie--It's an *alien* tentacle. Who says they don't have bones?

This is fab--what a great idea!

[chef_giorgio]

nice is a great idea to performance that tentacle. Im going to make my own with some grape and raspberry flavor, with a culis or salsa of blueberrys.

one more time thx 4 the idea and greetings from mexico

[Kaelessin]

great idea!  I love the use of newspaper and foil for a custom mold! I've got a halloween party this afternoon and I'm sure this'll be a hit . . . I plan on using a bit of tonic water with juice concentrate to make a glowing somehting :D

[NoFiller]

Thanks Kaelessin. Did you try it? I wish I'd had a black light and could have tried this, glowing makes everything better.

[Kaelessin]

I did and as far as visual went everyone was grossed out (i used grape juice and it ended up looking decidedly black and really slimy/rubbery) It did glow too with a greenish color under the blacklight but the downside is the tonic water tainted the taste pretty thouroughly so unless coolness outweighs taste i'd advise against it lol. Thanks for the great ible!

[NoFiller]

Aw that sucks about the taste. Maybe if you only soaked the bones it would glow from the inside, and you could eat around them...hmmm something to think about for next year.

Any pics?

[Kaelessin]

Soaking the bones wouldn't have done the trick for mine since it was so opaque but on yours that could work . . .or maybe just mix up some gelatin with tonic water and pour lines after the tentacle is half done, let it cool again and pour the rest with normal gelatin. . . .will be a repeat next year for sure!
I'm ashamed to say I forgot the camera at home  . . .

[ubercurious]

 Metroid au jus!

[ChrysN]

This looks great, I really like the suckers.

[kws103]

I'm always looking for stuff for the Halloween buffet that's truly visually disgusting. This is excellent! I'll be adding it to my permanent recipe list.

[a grain of alt.]

This is gross and amazing, I will have to make this!

[lemonie]

I can get over tentacles not having bones, because this looks so good.

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[canida]

This is awesome!  I'll be trying something similar soon, and will post pictures.

[mikeasaurus]

omg! deliciously disgusting!