Taping Take 2

We filmed for the 2nd time ever last Friday night.  

The menu was set earlier that week:

Sfingiune (Baiamonte recipe)

French Onion Soup (Terrebonne recipe)

Fettuccine and Pannéed beef (Baiamonte)

Green beans with almonds (Terrebonne)

Lemon cookies (Terrebonne)

It was so much easier to film this time.  Not only was our menu fairly simple and straight forward, we completed all our prep work before Joy arrived.  Well, mostly before Joy arrived.  Arielle was prepared.  I was not, had to rush a bit, Joy scolded me, etc., etc.  

We had one guest because all our other taste testers bailed at the last minute.  Shame on you, you know who you are!  Our one gracious guest, 17 year old Justina, whom I'm pretty sure we corrupted a tincy bit, loved our food and helped us too!  Joy, a.k.a. Mother Superior, kept us from corrupting the poor girl too badly.  At least Arielle and I save our cursing bouts for off camera so Joy has less to edit. 

There is a lot of blooper footage from that night.  When Arielle was making her lemon cookies she asked the wrong person, me, to help her with the saran wrap.  I had a fit of giggles and could not for the life of me get the stuff to cooperate.  Joy had to come from behind the camera to save me.  We accidentally burned a batch of Arielle's cookies too.  We were too excited about our beer tasting (which the 17 year old DID NOT participate in) and let the last batch burn.  Smelled awful.  More on the beer tasting in our next post.

Going to give you two recipes.  The sfingiune and the green beans.

For sfingiune you will need:

1 pizza crust (store bought, or your favorite dense crust recipe)

1 can anchovies

onion slices for crust

Parmesan cheese 

This is basically a pizza so its fairly simple to make.  You lay out your dough on a greased pan, drizzle with olive oil, lay out toppings:anchovies, onion slices, cheese, and place in a 400 degree oven till cheese is browned.  You may add mozzarella cheese, garlic, capers, etc. as desired.  This is the way my family eats it, and from what I understand its traditional.   I found a little etymology lesson here: http://siciliancookingplus.com/delicacies/09_sfincione.html . Tells you everything so I don't have to!

For the green beans you will need:

about a 1lb of fresh green beans

as much butter as you feel comfortable with, we used 5 tblsp

1/2 cup of halved almonds

Another super simple yet really yummy recipe.  Melt butter in pan, throw in almonds and green beans.  Cook until green beans are tender.  Salt and pepper to taste.  Was good cold too!

Above are the green beans plated with fettuccine and pannéed beef as well as the french onion soup.  There are no pics of the cookies as we were ready to imbibe some rather tasty beers...all except one anyway.

Stay tuned for our cookbook for all our recipes!