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It's a quiet dinner at home, filled with some of your all-time favorite comfort foods and served TV dinner style! With Michael's recipes for Cup of Quick Minestrone , Turkey Polpettone Sandwich in Marinara, Parmesan Fries oven baked, Warm Bananas w/Brown Sugar & Bay leaf over Chocolate Cake Gameplan Day Before Party: Assemble and sauté soup (without pasta) for Super Quick Minestrone. Mix and simmer sauce (without sliced bananas) for Warm Bananas with Brown Sugar Sauce to top Chocolate Cake. Skim the simmering Minestrone and refrigerate it overnight. Remove Warm Bananas with Brown Sugar Sauce from the heat and refrigerate overnight. Prep, par-boil, drain, coat and refrigerate the potatoes for Parmesan Fries. Mix raw turkey with other ingredients and for Turkey Polpettone, refrigerate overnight. One Hour Before Party: Boil Pasta for Super Quick Minestrone, remove from pot and cover with olive oil to keep moist until ready to add to soup. Put Super Quick Minestrone on the stove to get back up to a boil. Take Par boiled potato sticks and bake them in the oven to bake. Begin to sauté the turkey patties for the Polpettone, and place the marinara on the stove to heat to combine with sandwich. Grate parmesan and top baking fries in the oven for Parmesan fries, place them back in the oven to melt cheese. Flip the turkey patties to brown on the other side, then lift and put them in the heated marinara sauce. Top with extra mozzarella. Slice crostini bread and place sauteed patties from the sauce in the sandwich bread for serving. Pull fries form oven to cool. As Guests Arrive: Add pasta to Super Quick Minestrone. Reheat and add bananas to Warm Bananas with Brown Sugar Sauce. Eat and enjoy, serving in TV Dinner trays if possible. Eat and Enjoy! Wine Recommendation 2001 Trefethen Merlot

Homemade Candy

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Jack turns to Frederic for help to learn how to make simple homemade candy including recipes for chocolate truffles and candied orange peel. Episode Guide Below you’ll find a helpful episode guide for cooking along with Frederic and Jack, as well as tips and recipe rescues. Equipment List: Liquid measuring cup Small saucepan Serrated knife Cutting board Whisk 2 small cake pans Small baking sheet Parchment or wax paper Mixing bowl Measuring spoons Plastic wrap Chef’s knife Large saucepan Rack for drying Colander Dry measuring cups Colander Tips: Melting chocolate: Chop chocolate finely and uniformly before melting. Melt chocolate in a double boiler or in a bowl set over a saucepan of simmering water. Turn the heat off just before beginning to whisk; the residual heat will be enough to melt the chocolate. Having the heat any higher will scorch the chocolate. Whisk the chopped chocolate over the heat to prevent scorching. Making ganache: Ganache is a mixture of chocolate and cream, and is usually made with either semi-sweet or bittersweet chocolate, as opposed to milk chocolate. Flavorings like liqueurs can be added to ganache. Ganache can be made by heating the cream gently to a simmer, and then by pouring it over a bowl of very finely chopped chocolate. Candying: Candying is a cooking method used to preserve and sugar-coat fruits, citrus rinds, flowers, herb leaves, etc. by cooking them in sugar syrup and then coating with more sugar to let dry at room temperature. Recipe Rescues: Ganache is not firm enough – Refrigerate ganache for at least 2 hours before attempting to make truffles. You can spread the ganache onto a sheet pan for faster cooling. Burnt sugar – Start over with the sugar syrup. A sugar syrup needs to be cooked slowly and gently at a simmer; do not let it boil furiously. Candied orange tastes too bitter – Blanch an additional time; the more times you blanch the orange peels, the mellower the bitterness becomes.