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| Me & The Spicy Chef! |
This is my first ever "Playing in a Kitchen" post!
Last week on Thursday, I had the day off of work for Veteran's Day, and I made sure to take full advantage of this. In fact, I spent the entire morning/afternoon playing in
The Spicy Chef's kitchen! One of my best friend's, Suzy, is currently in culinary school, and she's also starting her own catering/cooking demo business! I swear I was looking forward to this the whole week!!
Here's what she had planned for the menu:
-Buttermilk biscuits
-Blueberry muffins
-Almond macaroons with raspberry filling
-Risotto w/ sweet peas, shitake mushrooms, shallots, and my favorite part, black truffle pate!
-Chicken Marsala
Since the words don't do it justice - I just so happened to capture most of this with my digi-cam. Check it out!
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| All the different types of flour we used! |
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| Recipes! |
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| Me cutting out the biscuits |
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| Our blueberry muffin dough |
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| Me whipping egg whites by hand until they form stiff peaks! This is a total workout!!! |
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| How do you know they're done? If you can hold it over your head and it doesn't drip! |
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| Biscuits are done! |
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| We piped out our macaroons. |
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| Here's our plan for lunch. On the right-hand side, you'll see our plan for plating our dish (almost as important as the food itself!!) |
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| Muffins are ready! |
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| I even learned how to defabricate a chicken!! |
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| Here's the risotto and the Marsala sauce going. Did you know you have to constantly stir the risotto in order to get it's creamy consistency? After stirring this for 20+ minutes, I have a new found appreciation for it! |
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| Adding Sherry to the Marsala sauce. |
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| Risotto's finally done! |
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| So is our Marsala sauce. |
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| Here's the chicken that we defabricated, did a 3-step breading procedure on, pan-fried, and then baked. |
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| Roasted tomatoes are done! Roasted these for 45 mins! |
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| Look at our beautiful end product! I swear this was most decadent lunch I've ever had!!! |
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| Last, but not least, the macaroons for dessert. |
I apologize if I made you guys hungry, but I had to share! This was seriously one of the best day's off ever!
xoxo
Payal
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