as I promised

I am going to divide the prep time  in 2 days: what you can do on D-1 day  and what you can do on D day. Of course you can do everything on D day but do not forget that on that day you have to finish to cook, dress yourself and be with your family/friends. So organize yourself to get some free time and you have to start cooking pn D-1 day.

What you can cook on D-1 day :

For 8 peoples

The cranberries relish :
12oz cranberries
1 cup light brown sugar
1 cinnamon stick
1-2 cloves
1 pinch salt
3/4 cup eau
1/2 tsp chinese spices
1 small star anise
1 apple

Pour all the ingredients in a sauce pan, except the apple, and boil under medium heat uncover during 6'.
During that time, peel and dice the apple. Add it to the cranberries relish and cook for 4' more.

Advices :
- The relish is really acid and bitter. So feel free to add more sugar as desire but let me tell you "the sauce works very well like that when eaten with the all meal".
- For the spices, you can change the spices as you like .

Did you know it?

http://shine.yahoo.com/vitality/8-world-8217-healthiest-spices-38-herbs-eating-150600515.html

Let play with spices or herbs in our plate for a better health!

Tomorrow I will post the first Thanksgiving recipe, as promised.

Oops!!!! People are crazy!

He wants a second spouse : the first one kill him, cut him and COOK him
http://fr.news.yahoo.com/veut-seconde-%C3%A9pouse-premi%C3%A8re-tue-d%C3%A9coupe-cuisine-132459856.html (sorry that is in French)

Wherever you are living, whoever you are, you always need to respect the person who is cooking for you at home, otherwise...

Happy Thanksgiving

Today, I am going to cook for Thanksgiving. Tradition, tradition!
So we will get a Turkey breast (we are just two at home so a whole turkey would be too much), a cranberries relish, some stuffing and some sweet potatoes and Brussels sprouts.
Let me go cook, take some pictures and I am coming back to you as soon as possible.

Empty your fridge

As I like to say, it is often when you have almost nothing to eat or when you are working under pressure that you imagine the simplest dish but good. Is it not great?

For example, last Sunday, I've opened my fridge and I've found some chicken, spaghetti pasta, spring onions, red and green bell peppers, sesame seeds, cream and soy sauce.

Boom, it was done. I cleaned and chopped all the vegetables, I shredded the chicken and did a creamy soy sauce. Stir all the ingredients together and you will get a fresh meal, easy to do and really good for a sunny summer evening.

Sauce :

1 tbs soy sauce

3 tbs heavy cream

FM pepper

After making the sauce, you think that it is still too salted, you can add some cream.

I dropped some tabasco sauce in my plate to add some spicy and hot flavor, but it's up to you.

Jeremy Esterly : save the name

Since I am living in Cleveland, Jeremy Esterly is on the front page.

Just to summerize Fire, food and drink, Dim and den sum food truck, Lola bistro and now Paragon, it seems like nothing can stop him. Today he won the Grassfed Beef Top Chef Grill-off at the Cleveland Garlic Festival. Here is what he was serving to the judge:

Why am I speaking about him? Just because Jeremy is a great guy, really hard worker, strong energy and full of projects.

Remember his name cause I am pretty sure you will ear about him again in the future.
So Jeremy, good luck to you and see you around.

Cleveland Garlic Festival

This week-end on Shaker Square, have fun, the Cleveland Garlic festival is open!!
Good food provided by local Chefs, good local products, good atmosphere.
It is all week-end long.
You can find all the informations in the link above
So see you there.