NASAlmon Soufflé (Fancy Space Food)
by Erik of Fancy Fast Food (with support from Maurice Murdock, plus Sara Mitchell, Maggie Masetti, Lynn Chandler, and Vickie Kloeris of NASA)
For the milestone 50th “recipe” on FancyFastFood.com, we’ve gone beyond the realms of fast food, to make food fancification boldly go where no bun has gone before! Now that the U.S. manned space program is going on hiatus, we’ve teamed up with some folks at NASA to try and convert some “leftover” freeze-dried astronaut food and make it look fancy — but not before having fun touring around NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, as seen in this video:
Ingredients (from NASA’s Johnson Space Center):
- 1 pack of chipotle snack bread
- 1 pouch of outer-space-ready Chicken Of The Sea pink salmon
- 1 package of freeze-dried asparagus
- 1 package of freeze-dried vegetable quiche
- water
First, make sure you turn on the gravity if you’re in Zero G; otherwise keep your items from floating away with the velcro patches that are found on all the unopened space food packets. (You can stick it to your socks if you want.) Next, open the packet of freeze-dried asparagus and put the contents in a sealable container; add in 50 ml of hot water and cover it to let it hydrate for five minutes. Do the same with the freeze-dried vegetable quiche, but with 100 ml of hot water.
The chipotle snack bread needs no hydration, so tear it into smaller pieces and put it in a food processor. Add in the contents of the Chicken of the Sea pouch, followed by the hydrated asparagus — saving 3-4 pieces for garnish — and the vegetable quiche. A proper soufflé on Earth uses eggs, so the quiche suffices for that, even though it’s not going to rise properly — although it might in Zero G.
Blend everything down to a consistent dough and then scoop it into a fancy ramekin. Bake the faux space soufflé in a preheated oven for 15-20 minutes at 477.594 Kelvin (400°F), and then let it cool.
Garnish the top with the extra pieces of green asparagus for a touch of color, and then 3… 2… 1… blast off! (Note: May not necessarily taste good on Earth, but may taste better in orbit.)
Check out a funny DELETED SCENE from the Fancy Space Food shoot here.
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