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Ad Hoc at Home
By Thomas Keller
Artisan - 2009
Corn on the Cob with Lime Salt : page 188
Loved the lime salt -- also liked the tip about melting the butter with a bit of the hot water from boiling the corn before rolling the corn in the butter. Easy to make but gives a touch of something special to the corn on the cob experience. Can't wait to try the salt with other things, like grilled fish.
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Great soup -- very rich but really draws out the flavor of cauliflower and my husband completely loved the red beet chips even though most of mine never really crisped up after frying (maybe my oil wasn't hot enough?) -- but the few that did were fabulous. I used croutons I'd made earlier for another dish and I found they didn't add much to the dish.
Served with a mesclun salad to which I added leftover slices of raw zucchini and yellow squash, some toasted pine nuts, and Nate Appleman's lemon juice and grapeseed oil dressing. It worked well as a healthy prelude to a rich creamy soup.
Appetizer was a fig jam, goat cheese and prosciutto bruschetta from the September 2010 issue of Cooks Illustrated.
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Honey Vinaigrette : page 143
Very nice dressing and SO easy to make. My go-to vinaigrette for entertaining has always been the one in Ina Garten's Barefoot in Paris. This now has equal pride of place -- it is sweeter with less of a tang than Garten's which makes it a nifty choice for dinner guests whose tastes I may not be as familiar with.
I used my mini-chopper rather than a blender to make this and it worked very well.
Think this would go really well with an orange and fennel salad -- or fennel and anything.
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