Maple, salted butter caramel and pear belle helene. Photo: Jumanggy, Flickr.
Happy National Pears Helene Day!
Also hailed as poire Helene or belle Helene, this dessert was created around 1870 by famed chef Auguste Escoffier. The fancy sundae consists of a chilled pear, poached in vanilla-flavored sugar syrup, paired with vanilla ice cream and glazed with a warm chocolate sauce.
In a sophisticated take on this elegant dessert (pictured at left), blogger No Special Effects jazzed up the original components, using honeyed poached pears, David Leibovitz's recipe for maple-walnut ice cream, and eschewing the tired old chocolate sauce for a lighter salted butter caramel sauce. Here's the recipe for the updated take, or try Tyler Florence's recipe for the classic version.
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Happy National Pear Helene Day!
Happy National Potato Chip Day!
Homemade potato chips. Photo: Kittbo, Flickr.
Happy National Potato Chip Day!
Invented by a hotel chef in Saratoga Springs, New York, in the mid-19th century, these deep-fried snacks were once known as Saratoga chips. Of course, when the chips became a nationwide staple, they lost their original moniker, as commercial potato chips started popping up on grocery store shelves in an increasing variety of flavors, sizes, cuts and thicknesses.
In the homemade version pictured here, blogger the Kittalog used up leftover mandoline-sliced potatoes, double-frying them in grapeseed oil, draining them and sprinkling them with fresh dill and Maldon sea salt. They quip that you absolutely "can't eat just one." For more detailed guidelines to make your own fresh potato chips, check out Alton Brown's recipe.
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Happy Coconut Torte Day!
Coconut-lime torte. Photo: Coconut Recipes, Flickr.
Happy Coconut Torte Day!
For those unfamiliar with the difference between a torte and a tart, a torte is known to use little or no flour, capturing rich, dense properties through the use of ingredients like ground nuts, eggs, breadcrumbs, etc. This particular coconut torte uses almond meal and coconut flour as a base for a particularly decadent bite, and tops it with star anise and coconut milk.
When eying this photo, one can practically taste the buttery mouthfeel, captured not by the typical dairy product but by olive oil and lime juice. To check out the gluten-free recipe yourself, head to FreeCoconutRecipes.com.
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Happy National Baked Scallops Day!
Baked scallops and salmon with dill. Photo: Special*Dark, Flickr.
Although we love our scallops with a texturizing sear, Flickr photographer Special*Dark has swayed us over to the baked scallop team with this tantalizing baked scallops and salmon with dill recipe, adapted from Gourmet magazine. He tossed scallops with baby carrots, fingerling potatoes, red onions, lemon slices, a hefty branch of fresh dill and a drop of white wine, baking them in an aluminum foil pouch, allowing the ingredients to stew in their own juices.
Writes blogger All Things Chill, "You get a lot of wow factor when you bring the pouch to your guest (or hungry girlfriend) and they crack it open to release the most fragrant steam. It's an instant drool catalyst." We can only imagine the steamy aromatic scent -- and are eager to recreate it in our own kitchen soon.
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Eat Your Green
Wheatgrass. Photo: oklo, Flickr
To make green mashed potatoes (that taste exactly the same as regular potatoes): Stir in half a cup of green peas that you've puréed with a tablespoon of milk. If you use frozen peas, they should be defrosted but don't need to be cooked.
Green bread crumbs for chicken: In a food processor, pulse 4 slices of toast with 1/2 cup chopped parsley until you've got, yes, green crumbs. Toss this mixture together with 4 ounces grated fresh Parmesan and 1 crushed garlic clove.
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