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Blood Orange Cured Lamb's Lettuce Bites with Miso Aioli and Pickled Ramps
Lamb's lettuce cured in blood orange juice and aji amarillo salt until the leaves go silky and crimson, then piled onto crispy quinoa crackers with fermented miso aioli and pickled ramps. It sounds unhinged. It works because citric acid does the same thing here that it does in ceviche, and the ramps' sulfurous bite has more in common with miso than you'd expect. Osaka meets Lima, and neither one is apologizing.
Smoked Watercress and Ramp Bloody Mary with Pickled Asparagus
Cold-smoking watercress and ramps over cherry wood before blending them with aji amarillo, chicha de jora vinegar, and fire-roasted tomatoes produces a Bloody Mary that tastes like a garden that actually caught fire. The pickled asparagus spear does real work here, adding a grassy, briny snap that makes the tired celery stick look like a prop. This is a Peruvian-inflected brunch drink with enough going on that you'll want to make it on a Tuesday.