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Take Cafe Lola Home With You This Thanksgiving!

Thursday, November 19th, 2009 | Cooking, Restaurant Reviews | 1 Comment

Here’s something wonderful to look forward to this Thanksgiving - someone ELSE cooking! HA!

Cafe Lola in Fairfield, CT has a spectacular Take-Out menu full of wonderful side dishes and desserts. You can even bring your OWN serving platter, bowl or dish to fill. All you’ll have to do is re-heat.*

Look for the ‘&’ sign below for the items to put on your own platter.

*One small teensy caveat… you’ll have to roast the turkey yourself. But that’s easy.

Henri will prepare all the appetizers, side dishes and desserts. They will be ready for you to pick up Thursday morning! That could provide you with the luxury of ‘acting’ like the hostess and spend all the extra time taking care of yourself and the guests.

Menu:

Lola’s Own Smoked Salmon Platter (serves 6) $48&

Served with chopped onions, capers, eggs, creme fraiche and black bread.

Vegetable Crudites with Boursin Dip (serves 6) $25&

Hot Vichyssoise Soup (1qt - serves 3) $12

(For those of you who don’t know, this is a wonderful pureed, cold soup made with potato and leek.)

Chestnut, Celery and Sage Stuffing (serves 6) $24&

Sage Gravy (1 pt, serves 6) $10

Henri’s Fresh Cranberry Sause ‘a l’Orange’ (1 pt, serves 6) $10

Whipped Butternut Squash with White Truffle Oil (1 qt, serves 6) $15

Mashed Potatoes (1 qt, serves 6) $9

Caramelized Brussels Sprouts with Bacon (1 qt, serves 6) $15

Fresh Green Beans with Crispy Shallots (1 qt, serves 6) $15

Potatoes and Yams “au gratin” (serves 6) $15&

Henri’s Mom’s Belgian Chocolate Mousse $5pp&

To order, call Cafe Lola at 203.292.8014

or email info@cafelolarestaurant.com by Tuesday, November 24th and pick up Thanksgiving Day before 12pm NOON.

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Wino Food Moment - Tortilla Press Night!

Thursday, August 27th, 2009 | Cooking | No Comments

One fantastic day, I walked into work to find a strange little device on my desk… lo and behold it was a Tortilla Press! SWEET!

Clearly, it was now in my better interest to find out how well these things work and if fresh tortillas really do taste as amazing as people say…. well…. the answer is YES! Enjoy!

Oh, and here’s the recipe from another blog I followed. GREAT directions! MMMMM….

For your visual enjoyment: a picture album and slide-show.

Tortilla Press Images

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Barcelona’s Chicken Al Pimientos - Must Try!!

Friday, February 6th, 2009 | Cooking, wine | No Comments

Last night I decided to make the Chicken Al Pimentos dish they serve at Barcelona Wine Bar. I actually found the exact recipe online about a week ago because it appears that they are going to be publishing a Barcelona Cookbook!! I’m pretty excited about that, not gonna lie.

Here’s a link to the recipe for those of you wanting to try this too.

http://barcelonacookbook.com/pdf/barcelonarecipechicken.pdf

Things I did differently:

• I used Leg Quarters instead of cutting up a whole chicken. Saved a little bit of time. But it’s more cost effective to buy whole birds when you can.
• I used a Spanish White wine - Vega Sindoa, which is a blend of Vieura and Chardonnay, but an Albarino would have probably made more sense. Make sure you buy something you want to drink too.
• I cooked the potato slices in the oven on a stoneware bar pan to save on ‘frying’ them. Plus, while those were in the hot oven, I could prep the other ingredients and chicken. Make sure you place the cooked potatoes on parchment to keep from getting soggy later.

**Beware, this dish is spicy! You can pair a Riesling to this if you want to cut down the acidity in the sauce. Or go the way of Cava - Sparking wine from Spain. Great with spicy dishes!

Some pics to make your mouth water

Spanish Paella & Wine Gift Set

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