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I love Seabras Marisqueira! Report on our lunch Saturday 5/26.
I'm a bit leery of it since we've only ever been there as 2 and I bet it'd be all I'd be able to get through. Need a bigger group! Want to try.
What cookbooks have you bought lately? Springtime edition, part 2
A previous TGC buy I finally cracked today, Couture Chocolate by William Curley, apparently a big cheese in the chocolate world in the UK (and a quite decorative Scotsman, from the looks of the pics in the book) -- very interesting, quite advanced in a lot of parts (I am not really a candymaker but if you make truffles and chocolates, definitely worthwhile). Did see a recipe for a brownie with sesame seeds and candied chestnuts that I'm going to have to try in it (his wife is Japanese and there are several Japanese-influenced items in the book -- matcha shortbread, Mont Blanc, etc). Also Millionaire's Shortbread, a recipe I've been avoiding forever because I know it would disappear down my gullet all too quickly.
What cookbooks have you bought lately? Springtime edition, part 2
That pistachio cake may be MY bday cake this year. It is gorgeous.
Yep, the walnut praline torte with espresso buttercream from Dede Wilson's "Unforgettable Desserts", an absolutely killer cake.
http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/791751#7366649
What cookbooks have you bought lately? Springtime edition, part 2
Love the chestnut poundcake and ditto meringues from Pure Dessert. Put the candied Turkish chestnuts that come in jars in the poundcake. I used the meringues as dacquoise layers in a cake for my husband's birthday a year or more ago, a goodie.
What cookbooks have you bought lately? Springtime edition, part 2
I was thinking about the Homemade Pantry. You know about "Better than Store-Bought", from the olden days (1970's)? GREAT book.
I love Seabras Marisqueira! Report on our lunch Saturday 5/26.
Ooh. We still haven't tried that crab dip off-menu thingy, I'm too hung up on the oysters (7 this time, often 8 if small, for $10.50).
Things you want to bake
You can make wonderful things from very simple and reasonably-priced ingredients. We were on grad students' budget for 13 years. You don't need all the foofy stuff.
What are you baking these days? May 2012
For that horde? I'd double or triple the heart pan amount, I think. I've made that cake 2x and it is great,
Madeleines
My recipe slightly adapetd from the Fannie Farmer Baking Book one:
Grease molds well (I use the Wilton cake release for this -- best thing I've found for it).
Sift some all-purpose flour, measure 1 c sifted.
Melt 1 stick unsalted butter, let cool to warm.
Zest a lemon.
Put 2 eggs, 1 tsp or more of lemon or orange zest, 1/2 c sugar, and 1/4 tsp salt in a stainless steel bowl (I use my trusty Kitchen Aid mixer's), put the bowl in a pan of simmering water, whisk until very warm to your finger. Beat on high about 4 mins, until tripled in volume. Beat in 1 tsp vanilla.
Put the flour in a sifter, sift 1/2 of it over the egg mixture. Fold in. Pour in the butter followed by the rest of the flour. Fold in.
Fill molds about 2/3 of the way. Bake at 400 deg F for about 10 minutes, until browned around the edges.
Makes 24 (in my molds, which are semi-ancient).
Below, today's batch, just done and dusted with powdered sugar.
Canadians--tell me your favourite recipe from Mom or Grandma
Yeah, now we're talking. Sounds like home.
Hakkasan - new luxury Chinese restaurant in Midtown
Very true, Bob, there are fabulous places here, we eat in any number of them, and I've seldom seen a bathroom that was a problem.
It would be nice to have a snazzy place to patronize occasionally as well.
What did you have for breakfast today?
A slice of Portuguese saloio bread, toasted, spread with Greek yogurt; a whole bunch of really good, cold, fresh lychees; a madeleine just barely out of the oven.
Hakkasan - new luxury Chinese restaurant in Midtown
I have no idea whatsoever. It would be a delight to have a top-end place here serving excellent food. None of the"classy" ones that have existed here to my knowledge (Tse Yang, the Shun Lees, etc) have served food worth a damn.
Best Recipes you have ever found on Chowhound Home Cooking board
Hadn't seen you around much lately, but happy birthday, and that's a heck of a recipe.
Best Recipes you have ever found on Chowhound Home Cooking board
mamachef, I think?
Best Recipes you have ever found on Chowhound Home Cooking board
http://www.food.com/recipe/Japanese-Cheesecake-90032 this one, actually, but I put the whole 8 oz of crream cheese in (because I know I'd find the other 1 oz in the fridge an advanced state of decrepitude a good long while after). I don't glaze or put fruit on it. One time I folded in some pitted sour cherries (oh momma) and once a couple of oz of melted choc and some raspberries, though.
Best Recipes you have ever found on Chowhound Home Cooking board
souschef's screen name should be maitrechefpatissier.
Best Recipes you have ever found on Chowhound Home Cooking board
Yay! Thanks! They are great.
What are you baking these days? May 2012
The cookies (which have already been judged scary-looking, in person they're much more attractive and tasty -- the gianduja melted more than chocolate would have), and the mads before sugar and with sugar. This is the Fannie Farmer baking book recipe, the one we like best. Génoise-style. Funny thing, I have 2 12-well pans, how come there are only 22 cooling? ;-)
What are you baking these days? May 2012
sunagelmb you did the right thing, no cream of tartar, cookies not at all the same.
What are you baking these days? May 2012
Me too! I'm now looking for the cake equivalent to the one for M for his mother's 89th on 7/1. Maybe coconut? Maybe the RLB Heavenly Cakes raspberry heart in round pans and as a 2-layer? I'm thinking.
Hakkasan - new luxury Chinese restaurant in Midtown
That review makes it sound like somewhere that would make me want to kill myself.
I love Seabras Marisqueira! Report on our lunch Saturday 5/26.
More business for them can't be a bad thing. That price included 4 Castello mineral waters, too.
Best Recipes you have ever found on Chowhound Home Cooking board
Must be. Had sauerkraut in the prep.
I love Seabras Marisqueira! Report on our lunch Saturday 5/26.
This restaurant is one of our absolute favorites. You could be stepping into a similar establishment in Portugal, right down to the long tables and the blue and white-tiled walls.
We had a delicious late lunch there yesterday -- gorgeous oysters on the half shell, a great watercress salad with sweet onion, sprinkled with crunchy sea salt, perfect suckling pig with fresh-fried potato chips, orange, and a very meaty, garlicky sauce, and pork in the style of Alentejo (with clams, served on a platter and not in a cataplana, as I have seen it done there and elsewhere before). HUGE portions, as in the mother country.
Pineapple sorbet (a Bindi frozen dessert, I think), excellent espresso, and too much wine (BIG glasses of dry white that were poured from a Riesling-style bottle and a bottle of the red that was on special).
Very cordial service (the waiter even brought Tabasco for the oysters unbidden).
Total before tip: $107.00. An astonishing bargain for food of this quality, with microvacation in Portugal thrown in.
http://www.njdiningguide.com/seabras.html
Best Recipes you have ever found on Chowhound Home Cooking board
The screen name had Plano in it...not Jane? These aren't the same. :(
