A brief follow up to last week's Beginners Guide to Caviar and Chef B's list of do's and dont's. As promised, the recipe for French Blinis, the small yeast risen pancakes served with caviar. I mean, of course dahhhhhling, toast points are sooooo last year.
With Chinese New Year just around the corner, it was time for a family outing to the local T&T Supermarket for authentic Asian ingredients and an infusion of new ideas for the Gypsy Kitchen. Decked out in it's new year finery, with colorful lanterns hanging overhead, T & T…
Often we try things without the benefit of good advice and then wonder why we're so underwhelmed. That is the experience many first timers have with caviar then they stand there saying "what's the big deal?" Consider this your personal guide to caviar with Chef Benoit Gelinotte's Caviar Do's and Dont's or, as I like to call it; The Gospel of Caviar According to Chef B So you can get it right the first time (or the next time).
We are champagne pigs, anything that sparkles and fizzes gets play with us. Some are hits and some are misses; the Perles roses Cuvée Antonia Naveran 2008, was a big holiday hit this season.
We mistakenly took the De Bortoli Deen Vat 10 Pinot Noir 2008 to a mixer with folks we didn't know. A decision we immediately regretted.
Move over orange juice, champagne has a new brunch companion for a snazzy, light brunch cocktail. I give you the Pomosa, champagne pomegranate cocktail. For your next special occasion; think pomegranate.
Nothing like a belly full of warm, spicy Double Berry French Toast in the morning. In my days as an innkeeper in at the Dragonfly Inn, this was a guest favorite. Topped with small, sweet Nova Scotia strawberries and smothered in warm raspberry-maple syrup. Breakfast, it's the most important meal of the day.
Yea, that just happened, I made a waffle out of leftover stuffing and served a turkey sandwich on it, that's how white trash I am. Christmas 2011; the year of the Stuffing Waffle Turkey Sandwich. Straight out of the Gypsy Kitchen.
Smooth, dark and super rich, this Chocolate Espresso Truffle Cake is a slab of pure chocolate heaven. It's also flourless so there's no pesky carbohydrates, and it's gluten free. Just a few simple ingredients you probably already have: butter, sugar, chocolate, espresso and eggs, it's temptation in it's purest form. You've been warned.
Roasted Vegetables with Garlic, Rosemary & Lemon, know at Chez Gypsy as the Ode to Tubers, is a household favorite. The oils from the olive, the lemon and rosemary are old friends; they bond in a familiar kinship to make this simple side dish look amazing, taste terrific and smell fantastic.
This promises to be very bad for your diet. Gingerbread Hot Chocolate made in the French style with cream, coca and real chocolate to make it rich and thick. Then for some seasonal fun we've spiced it up to give you a little kick of ginger.
Two recipes adapt in dramatic contrast to create a new personal best. A far east twist on a holiday favorite, Asian Gingerbread Pear Cake is slightly sweet, moist and intense with the bright addition of poached pears for a show-stopping, simple cake; the prefect fit for holiday entertaining.