Sunday, May 29, 2011

Lemon Butter Sauce

So my husband tells me at 8pm tonight that he wants pasta and breaded chicken with a butter sauce, but not a greasy butter sauce but a creamy butter sauce!!! Excuse me at eight at night. I'm not tiered, why not?

So i took some chicken breast, sliced the breast in half to make it thinner, dipped it in melted butter and then put it right into the italian bread crumbs, onto a pan for 25 minutes in a 350 degree oven.

I took out my stainless steel sauce pan and put 1&1/4  cup of dry vermouth, 2 lemons(peeled and cut into quarters) 1 shallot,minced  3 cloves of garlic minced and cooked that down for about 4-5 minutes, then i added 1 cup of heavy whipping cream and whisked it together for about 5-6 minutes, then slowly added 2 sticks of butter, whisked all of that together until a creamy consistency about 8minutes, took it off the fire and strained it into a bowl to remove the lemon chunks and seeds. Let it cool just for about 3 minutes to thicken up a bit. Poured it over pasta and chicken, and oh my goodness it was like magic! GONE! my family left nothing but the crumbs in the pan where the chicken was cooking...

Try it! it is sooooo yummy! Let me know if you do!
Chef Neena

Saturday, May 28, 2011

Education Notebook.

The kiddie kitchen is on Education Notebook on Channel 12 in fairfield county CT. We are discussing our wonderful summer cooking camp for kids from 3rd grade to 10th grade. We are excited!
Cooking with kids and young adults can help impact them for the rest of their lives and give them the life skills they need.

Monday, May 23, 2011

Chocolate Tour in New York City!

I was literally touching Jacques Torres! I use to watch him when I was a young girl and loved everything he made with his wonderful Chocolate creations! He is even better looking in person. Although I am in love with my hubby, who is the one wearing the white shirt!...lol Jacques is HOT! and the chocolate in his chocolate factory in the city is amazing. I had a fantastic time. You should head out to NY chocolate tours and enjoy a nice brisk walk for about 2 hours visiting chocolate shops and a Cheesecake shop. Amazing!!!!!!!

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Yellow Birthday Cake


This is the cake my camp kids make for me every year for my birthday!!!

Birthday Yellow Cake

Ingredients
2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 3/4 cup sugar
2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 1/3 cups milk
1/2 cup softened butter or margarine
2 teaspoons vanilla
3 eggs

Method

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
1.     Combine flour, sugar, baking powder and salt in a large bowl. Then add milk, butter and vanilla and beat at low speed for about 30 seconds or until well blended.
2.     Beat at high speed for 2 minutes scraping the sides of the bowl often.
3.     Add the eggs and beat for 2 more minutes.
Grease and flour the bottoms and sides of your cake pans and pour in batter.
4.     Bake 30-35 minutes for a cake is done when a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
5.     Cool cakes in the pans on a wire rack for 10 minutes then remove the cakes from the pans and cool completely on wire rack before decorating.