Chouquettes

Sean
https://youtu.be/f2QW2gYqlhA   A chouquette is a lovely little French pastry.  It's easy to make, and very lovely in its simplicity.  A chouquette is really just a ball of pate a choux that's been sprinkled with pearl sugar and baked.  And while sugar is often used, you can also use mini…
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Another Great Bread Pudding

Sean
https://youtu.be/n54ahEh5XTc I love this method for bread pudding because the unsoaked bread on the outside gives it a great contrast both in taste and texture to the creamy custard inside.  You're going to love this version.  The rest of this post is mostly like the last one because there's not…
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Homemade Ricotta

Sean
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHR4YfFJums Nothing, and I mean Nothing beats homemade ricotta.  The stuff you get in the store is shredded cardboard compared to this.  The aroma alone is enough to send you into a frenzy.  And you know what... it's so incredibly easy to make you'll never buy it again.  It's great…
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Classic Bread Pudding

Sean
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNdt9uvXBic&feature=youtu.be This is one of our all-time favorites.  A good, classic bread pudding is nothing like that crap you get in most Cajun restaurants, or any other restaurant for that matter.  America has gotten this fascination with overly sugared desserts to the point that nobody knows how to enjoy something…
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Pan-seared Tilapia

Sean
https://youtu.be/MC_zraRqkHQ We love this dish.  This one dish is probably responsible for our kids liking fish.  It's simple, and fast, and cheap... all 3 things we love in a meal.  We cook it at very very high heat because tilapia is thin and fish cooks fast anyway, so we've got…
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Old-World Tomato Soup

Sean
https://youtu.be/7L6hF_-HdQY I'm calling this old-world tomato soup because of the way the French originally thickened things like bisque.  Bisque was originally (and with many classically trained chefs) thickened with rice instead of roux.  So we're going to thicken our tomato soup with brown rice instead of roux or cornstarch.  Now,…
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Guiness Lamb Tips with Mint Sour Cream

Sean
https://youtu.be/o5FtSVJ1WDs This is another lamb stew only this time instead of curry I went with Guiness.  It's really a take on Steak and Guiness pie that you get in London pubs, but we're just going to serve it over pasta or something. Who knows we might do mashed potatoes. So…
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Lamb Curry Cassoulet

Sean
https://youtu.be/HOJRG1YxYhE This is a great recipe that even my littlest boy likes.  He's 8 and we had this last night when I made this vid and he said "This is stupid good".  And he claims to not like curry or lamb. So this is just a basic curry, nothing fancy,…
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Tuna Waldorf

Sean
https://youtu.be/Q16sDvJPNuY This is a fabulous tuna salad.  I call it Waldorf because it's the same recipe I use for Chicken Waldorf.  It uses the mustard dressing instead of plain mayo.  I'm not really going to give you a recipe here because the video will speak for itself.  So basically you're…
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