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13 May 2010

Cooking with Gourmet Butters

Author: eurotoques | Filed under: Organic Cooking

 

 

Ideas on some of the ways organic compound butter (flavored butter) can be used for cooking applications. This is a great product for those food lovers that don’t care to spend time making there own compound butter. It is versatile, convenient and fun to work with. You will enjoy limitless ways to create a different taste experience each day. All of our products are made with organic butter and organic natural ingredients without any artificial flavors or coloring.

10 May 2010

French Cooking Recipes: How to Make Beurre Blanc

Author: eurotoques | Filed under: French Cuisine

 

 

Mastering the Art of French Cooking has never been easier for Julia Child fans.

4 May 2010

Greek Cooking: Spanakopita (spinach and feta cheese pie)

Author: eurotoques | Filed under: European Cuisine

 

 

Probably the best spanakopita video out there. I’ve been making spanakopita for years. I finally decided to make a video tutorial on it.

This is the only way my kids will eat spinach. They love it! I know that you’re suppose to roll your own phyllo but I simply don’t have that much time. The whole thing took about an hour to make and about 40 minutes in the oven.

  • 2.5 lbs spinach
  • 5 green onions
  • 11oz feta cheese
  • 2 eggs
  • 2tbsp fresh parsley
  • 1 tbsp fresh dill
  • about 10 phyllo pastry sheets
  • half cup olive oil

You can add a little salt if you want, but it’s not required.

Note: Eggs are optional, it will still turn out just fine.

3 May 2010

German Cooking for Beginners

Author: eurotoques | Filed under: German Cuisine

 

 

This recipe is a specialty in the city of Düsseldorf.

Serves 4 4 sirloin steaks, around 180 grams each

  • 300 large Spanish onions
  • 100 grams coarse mustard
  • 500 grams mixed garden vegetables
  • 500 grams waxy potatoes
  • 400 grams butter
  • 2 egg yolks
  • 50 ml white wine
  • Add chives, lemon, Worcester sauce, pepper, salt, caraway seeds, sugar,  oil , Hollandaise Sauce
  • Clarify 350 gram butter over low heat
  • Combine two egg yolks and white wine over low heat and whisk until creamy
  • Gradually add the butter and continue to beat with whisk until emulsified
  • Add salt, lemon and Worcester sauce to taste

Fried potatoes – Boil potatoes, then peel and cut into thick slices Fry in oil until golden

Add salt, pepper, and caraway seeds to taste.  Add 20 gram butter and finely chopped chives as garnish

Vegetables – Wash and chop vegetables Blanch in salt water Remove enough blanching water to melt 30 gram butter Glaze the vegetables in the melted butter.

Add salt and sugar to taste Mustard onions Peel and slice onions Saute in oil until translucent – Add mustard and sauté briefly

Add salt, pepper and sugar to taste Grilled Beef Sprinkle steaks with pepper Saute on both sides.

Place steaks in a baking dish and top with mustard onions Bake for 10 minutes at 160°C

Top with Hollandaise sauce Place under grill until lightly browned Serve the beef with mustard onion crust with potatoes and vegetables.

3 May 2010

European Cuisine – Ottawa

Author: eurotoques | Filed under: European Cuisine

 

 

European Cuisine: Discover the true flavor of European cuisine.

3 May 2010

Every Day Culinary Art – Fruit & Vegetable Carving

Author: eurotoques | Filed under: Culinary Artwork

 

 

Great video for learning the in’s and outs of fruit & vegetable carving. How to make culinary artwork using simple food garnishes.  Making food art and fruit carved centerpieces can be simple .

22 Dec 2009

German Christmas – Nuremberg Christmas Market

Author: eurotoques | Filed under: German Cuisine


View the specialties of the Nuremberg Christmas Market. German Christmas markets are famous all over the world. Visit six of the oldest and most celebrated along with the most unusual.


European holiday sweets – find out how the Italian Christmas favorite panettone is baked today. It’s not that difficult as the 500-year-old recipe doesn’t require many ingredients – but you need some patience because it takes 24 hours until it’s ready to serve.

The Panettone can cost up to 50 euros.  There are many difficultities when preparing panettones.

3 Sep 2009

Halloween Cuisine

Author: eurotoques | Filed under: Strange Foods

Well… “cuisine” might be a little much, but definitely “fun” foods!  So put on your sexy costumes, deck out Fido in his spiffy pet costumes, and let’s have a Halloween party.  Recall the days as a youngster when someone invited you to a Halloween bash? There would frequently be someone with a garage that would concoct a disturbing demonstration. Gooey noodles substituted for intestines. fruit were eyeballs.

Subsequently you would shuffle into the darkened area and place your fingers in dissimilar holders. Everyone yelped and whined. Usually, someone would incline behind to you and hiss “intestines” or eyeballs. You would shriek.

You can revise these tricks to whip up unique munchies for your soiree. Try these Halloween recipes and offer them to your invitees. Offer water vines from a ghoul haunted vessel. To create this, heat spinach in oil with spices. Place in a transparent dish. Set that holder inside a different, wider dish of some hue. Dispense water in the area in the space between the two containers. Reduce, and it will seem it’s floating on water. Drop in a several model vessels. Pull a few strands of the spinach across the ships for an increased result. Immediately you have boats stranded in seaweed. Utilize celery filled with cream cheese that has herbs and red food color. This appears to be the rotten bones of one unfortunate person who’s been hacked up.  Try household scissors to nip tiny bits. Inform everybody they are the broken and decomposing bones of some famous or that dogs have been eating on the meat center.

Dark jelly beans turns into bat doo doo. Skewer two round meats on a wooden toothpick and utilize green olives to complete the eye. You have two eyeballs on a toothpick. You can do the equivalent with olives and pimentos. They have black olives with cheese in the middle, too. They come across a tad like fish eyes. Slice bulky spaghetti for worms. Use food pigment to stain them bizarre pigments. Or mix all the colors together to create a mucky mess.

It could be the worms you dug up for the party. Mix the noodles with seasonings beforehand to make certain the savor is more intense. They will look nasty, but taste great.

There is no bounds to the Halloween hors d’oeuvres you can craft with just a little of imagination. You can utilize your thoughts for your decorations. A common toothpick becomes a stake for a tiny blood sucker. Dunk in the trusty crimson food stain and use it as dish decoration. Bind two of them in the figure of a cross and paste to a napkin ring. Don’t overlook the drinks. You can purchase ice cubes that look like fingers. Look online for great bargains either very early or very late in the season. And don’t worry about it. You can transform dull dreary munchies into nasty with the correct angle. Don’t be unwilling to test it out. You can throw away what doesn’t work. After all there are a plethora of famished animals to appease.

3 Sep 2009

Greek Food Tv? Saganaki Meze Greek recipe

Author: eurotoques | Filed under: Greek Cuisine

Well-known Greek food expert and award-winning author Diane Kochilas and photographer Vassilis Stenos own and operate the The Glorious Greek Kitchen Cooking School and DV Food Arts Consulting.  Cooking classes and organize culinary tours in Greece for recreational and professional cooks. They produce specialty books and other food-and-wine-related literature for a wide variety of clients and independently for the tourist and other up and coming chefs.