How To Set a Love on Fire- Grilled & Burrata

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The story around this dish isn't great. No happy endings here. I will say this. In a very stressful few days that I was enduring, I found great solace in this dish. In fact, the more I ate it, the more it felt like this indulgent pause in a constant state of pain.

I've tasted many burratas, but somehow, a summer in the UK mandated that this incredibly creamy cheese gets paired with fruits of the summer. In this case, it was the grilled peach that showed up constantly to console me. 

Although I tend to not necessarily replicate recipes word for word- somehow with this dish, I needed to at least try to reenact it- for the sake of isolating my bad memories from the dish. That didn't last long though- because I still did weave in ingredients I had at home- which in a sense also speaks about my emotional state in reclaiming and compartmentalising memories- without even the slightest sense of autonomy- I would still be there, devouring a burrata in a state of pain.

Burrata - I have found a stunning locally produced brand from Kibsons- do a thorough search there

Peaches

Apricots

Dill (optional)

Arugula cress (optional)

Black garlic (optional)

Edible flowers (optional)

Olive oil

Shatta/ Chilli paste (optional)

Salt and pepper to taste

Candied violet jam (optional)

1. How to set a love on fire.
2. Drain that burrata. Plate that burrata. Puncture that burrata. Watch how it just softens and surrenders to every bashing you give it.
3. Conceal the bashing until all you can see is this colorful meadow of flowers.
4. Grill those peaches. Grill those apricots. Grill them till they are so bruised and blistered, they somehow mirror all the times you felt so brutally disappointed. 
5. Set them on fire and  suffocate them in smoke.
6. As they approach their last breath, set them free.
7. Make the kerosine. Butcher black garlic and mix in a bowl with chilli, lime and olive oil.
8. Embellish the plate with even more defense mechanisms deflections and delusions. Fragrant dill, thyme and basil.
9. Seal this ritual with a pour of the kerosene. But don’t set it on fire. Indulge in every suppression, swallow your feelings instead.
10. This is how you set a love on fire.