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Chefs’ Secrets Revealed
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Did you ever want to make a dish you tasted in a restaurant but didn’t have a recipe? You don’t have to wait any longer. The secrets are out, and we finally found out how chefs and culinary experts produce those amazing dishes. There’s no October magic formula to follow. In fact, the information came from the chefs’ themselves. Stay tuned to hear from Emmanuel Laroche, the popular podcaster of Flavors Unknown, who shares the Conversations Behind the Kitchen Door: with all of us. We also have some “over-the-top” great recipes you too.
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Caramel Glazed Autumn Flan
Inspiration for this recipe from Chef Jose Garces
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About the Recipe: This recipe is Chef Jose Garces’s mother’s favorite. The dessert is thick, very creamy with a soft breeze of citrus and is topped with melting caramelized sugar. We garnished the flan with a ring of soft sweetened cranberries and thin wedges of tender apples. It’s a perfect recipe to serve for the holidays.
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Chick Sticks
Inspiration for this recipe from Chef Bryce Shuman
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About the Recipe: Guests just love this eye-catching appetizer, and it’s so easy to make and fun to serve. The sauce is smoky, sweet, and a little tangy with a mild heat. Guests love having their own extra sauce for dipping the little chicks a second and third time. You can’t beat this recipe – Little chicks that are double dipping fun.
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Crispy Red Apple Truffle Slaw
Inspiration for this recipe from Chef Jose Garces
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About the Recipe: Crispy red apple coleslaw combines crunchy fresh apples, shredded coleslaw mixture, green onions, walnuts with a roasted garlic dressing, and a touch of mild truffle oil. It’s a light, healthy, and refreshing salad. The bright autumn flavors and crisp textures brighten up any meal.
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Conversations Behind the Kitchen Door:
by Emmanuel Laroche – Podcaster – Flavors Unknown
Emmanuel’s new book, Conversations Behind the Kitchen Door, shares his interviews with chefs and culinary experts, who reveal their creative process, flavor-memory database, cultural backgrounds, quality ingredient resources, and life experiences. The book opens up the culinary world to food entrepreneurs, chefs, culinary students, as well as curious home cooks.
Book Cover Courtesy Emmanuel Laroche
Photo Courtesy Emmanuel Laroche
Wanting to learn more about those chats behind the kitchen door, we decided to ask Emmanuel about those conversations.
“Conversations Behind the Kitchen Door” – will be available through Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other fine bookstores nationwide after Nov. 8th.
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Arroz Caldo (Chicken Porridge)
Recipe inspired by Chef Carlo Lamagna
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About the Recipe: Classic Arroz Caldo is a flavorful chicken porridge, which tastes like creamy thick rice and chicken. Chef Lamagna says it is an important dish to serve at Christmas time in the Philippines. The comforting warm bowl of thick creamy rich chicken soup/porridge combines onions, garlic, and ginger for an exciting blend of flavors, and the sprinkled condiments top it with bursts of surprising tastes and contrasting textures
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Italian Pesto Stuffed Tomatoes
Recipe inspired by Chef Rikku O’Donnchu and Lay’s™ Potato Chips
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About the Recipe: These Italian flavored stuffed tomatoes are elegant and perfect to serve at a dinner party. Everyone will love the fresh pesto flavored potato filling with that touch of crisp tomato top. With their twirled caramelized tomato skin, they are so impressive as a side dish or even a vegetarian entrée.
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Double Smoked Salmon Sandwich
Inspiration for this recipe from Chef Michael Gulotta
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About the Recipe: Could anyone improve a classic BLT sandwich? We discovered from Chef Michael Gulotta that adding some of your favorite seafood takes this sandwich over the top. We stirred chunks of smoked salmon in a bacon mayo mixture and added some peppers, chives, and pickles to the party. The results were perfect to tuck into a toasted Brioche bread BLT sandwich. It’s a five-star special!
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Mediterranean Styled Butternut Squash Soup
Recipe inspiration from Farmer Lee Jones – The Chef’s Garden
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About the Recipe: You can keep your preparation for butternut squash incredibly simple by roasting it, but it also can be grilled, seared, or charred. Since it has natural sugars, the flavor comes out with high heat, adding a tasty, caramelized flavor to the finished soup. A Mediterranean combo of seasonings creates a mild spicy addictive flavor. The soup is finished with just a touch of cream for a smooth finish. Serve your favorite add-ons with it along with some crunchy Mediterranean pita crackers.
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One-Pot Oven Roasted Mexicali Cod
Recipe inspired by Chef Brad Miller
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About the Recipe: Simple and easy to make, this Mexican styled one-pot dinner bakes in about 15 minutes. The sweet pepper spicy sauce is perfect for teaming with a side of black beans or corn combo and don’t forget to serve some chunky flatbread for dunking into that delicious sauce.
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Asian Braised Coconut Curry Short Ribs
Recipe inspired by Chef Andre Natera
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About the Recipe: Asian Coconut Curry Short Ribs are deliciously tender with an amazing light curry flavor. They slowly braise in a small amount of broth and later are infused with the curry flavored cream sauce. The gravy-like sauce enhances any side dish like stir-fry noodles or rice with amazing flavor. Add your favorite add-ons to create a colorful complete dinner.
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Moroccan Fruit’n Nut Bonbons
Recipe inspired by Chef Elizabeth Falkner
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About the Recipe: This is an energy boosting, sweet spicy snack made with lots of almonds, walnuts, and pistachios. I combined our favorite dried fruits: figs, dates, and apricots. We gave it a burst of Moroccan saffron, but that is an optional ingredient. This snack will “fill the bill” whenever you need a quick pick-me-up.
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Golden Butter Sandwich Swirl Cookies
Recipe’s inspiration from Chef Erin Kanagy-Loux
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About the Recipe: Each Butter Sandwich Swirl Cookie has two crisp butter cookies flavored lightly with citrus, which are generously filled with a sweet buttercream. The creamy filling is golden from the added turmeric spice and scented with lemon and orange flavors. Imagine having this two-for-one cookie with a meltaway filling and your favorite cup of coffee or tea. Sandwich cookies are a real double treat.
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Southern Sweet Apple Crisp
Recipe Inspired by Chef Alex Harrell
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About the Recipe: This is a perfect recipe to serve for any holiday meal. The dessert blends the citrus flavors, sweet molasses, and light rye flour together in such a magical way that you would never guess what makes this apple crisp so delicious and special. The streusel topping has a crispy nutty texture, melting into the richly caramelized sweet apples. The bonus is that it is easy to make and filled with those crisp tender, yet crunchy apples.
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