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Thursday, June 14, 2012
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Welcome to Louisiana Kitchen
Louisiana Kitchen's Editor Jyl Benson took over recipe duty this week, and has posted some of her family favorites for summer below. Unlike me, she has a daughter at home, so I've asked her to contribute from time to time with that perspective in mind. There's a Nutter Butter Chocolate Cupcake that looks incredible.
Of note: New Orleans Plantation Country is conducting a Summer Getaway Sweepstakes; and my quirky favorite Temperature Lunch is back at Palace Cafe. It's yet another reason to yearn for cooler summer days.
Since recipes are off my plate this week, I thought I'd take the opportunity to do a little housekeeping:
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Beef Tenderloin Sandwiches with Truffle Butter |
My daughter Cecilia and I are big fans of Ina Garten, and this is a favorite from her Barefoot Contessa Back to Basics cookbook. If you're looking to impress someone with a luxurious picnic you could do a whole lot worse than this. Serve these up with a bottle of Chateauneuf-du Papes or a robust rose to guarantee a successful endeavor. And, while these sandwiches make brilliant use of leftover beef fillet, the flavors and textures here are good enough at warrant roasting an entire tenderloin expressly for the purpose of building these sandwiches. Hot or cold beef will work just fine. —Jyl |
Green Goddess Salad Dressing |
Green goddess dressing makes the most of fresh summer garden herbs and it's divine drizzled over baby lettuces (we love silky, soft butter lettuce), ripe, juicy Creole tomatoes, or as a finishing sauce for grilled chicken or grilled or poached fish. This tangy dressing was created in the early 1920s at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco for an event honoring actor George Arliss, who starred in the hit play The Green Goddess. I excerpted this from Chow.com, a food-centric site I visit on a regular basis. For faster cleanup, use Susan's tip from last week and see if a standard quart-sized Mason jar fits in place of your regular blender bowl. If so, all you have to do is clap a lid on the finished dressing and store it in the refrigerator. No blender bowl to wash.—Jyl |
Nutter Butter Chocolate Cupcakes |
Cecilia and her best friend Julia like to bake and my husband, Andrew, finds the combination of chocolate and peanut butter simply irresistible. With that in mind, the girls are planning to whip up a batch of these easy Nutter Butter Chocolate Cupcakes for him for Father's Day. The recipe utilizes boxed Devil's Food cake mix and, while we typically do not advocate using mixes in place of working from scratch, we usually are not cooking with Nutter Butter cookies either! These are so good it's hard to care what's in them.—Jyl |
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