Bring out the “show biz” side of your personality and wow your guest with this very simple dessert. They will be talking about it and your culinary skills for weeks afterwards. Chef John Turenne at Yale notes the this bananas foster recipe, always a hit, was created in New Orleans’s Brennan’s Restaurant in the 1950’s. …
Category: Cooking Class
Melon Salad/to croak about!!!
This was first made in May’s cooking class. We had a ball!!! Croak, ball? too many puns? Start with a very familiar melon ball salad and then carve one of these endearing little frogs (ribbit) and you have a buffet conversation piece for sure!!! Print Recipe Melon Salad/to croak about!!! Prep Time 1 hour Servings…
Stromboli
This was May’s cooking class recipe. The original recipe calls for home-made pizza dough. There is a recipe for that elsewhere on the blog. This process adds a couple of hours to your preparation time and does not produce a significant difference in the results. I found at our Safeway store, in the deli department,…
May’s Cooking Class
Wahoo!!!! Cooking class and Audrey, (the beautiful ) took pictures!!! It was a great class. The original plan was to make a vinaigrette for our teaching segment followed by Stromboli for the entrée. During the month I ran across this picture of a cantaloupe melon salad (ribbit!) and fell in love with him. Plans changed,…
It’s Chicken Night
We have been waiting for this class, we talked about it on several occasions, we planned, we even giggled, tonight we are posting, for the first time, the Cooking Class on the blog!!!! Class has proceeded quite well. We are starting a new feature, teaching a cooking skill during each class. Tonight’s skill is cutting…