It's pasta three ways in an inexpensive party featuring everyone's favorite Italian food served in ways you'd never expect! With recipes for Lasagna of Roasted Butternut Squash; Crispy Pasta Salad with Warm goat cheese and pancetta; Baked Pastina Timbale
Gameplan
1 Day Before Party:
Grind fennel-cinnamon spice mixture for Butternut Squash Lasagna.
Peel and dice butternut squash. Season and roast squash then puree for lasagna. Blend puree with cheeses and set aside in refrigerator.
Roast tomatoes and jalapeños for Pastina Timbale Sauce.
Dice roasted peppers for Pastina Timbale Sauce.
Cook lasagna noodles for Butternut Squash Lasagna.
Dice and sauté remaining ingredients for Pastina Timbale Sauce. Finish Timbale Sauce. Cool and store overnight in refrigerator.
Prepare and finish béchamel sauce for Butternut Squash Lasagna.
Assemble Butternut Squash Lasagna.
1 Hour Before Party:
Bake Butternut Squash Lasagna.
Cook pastina for Pastina Timbale.
Poach and sauté sausage for Pastina Timbale.
Sauté garlic and breadcrumbs for Pastina Timbale. Prepare bowl to mold Timbale.
Combine pastina with Timbale sauce, pour into bowl and rest until service.
Cook angel hair pasta and fry for Pasta Cakes.
Assemble and dress Pasta Cake Salad.
At the Party:
Un-mold Pastina Timbale.
Eat and Enjoy!
An adventure in natural foods of epic proportions, Outrageous: Giant Foods showcases enormously-sized vegetables, fruits and even cheese that put standard grocery store produce to shame. This special features a fiercely competitive colossal cabbage weigh-off competition at Alaska's State Fair, a regatta in California where the boats are all made from 1,000+ pound pumpkins and how to cook with the world's largest tree born fruit, the jackfruit, in Florida. From the making of a 4,500-pound Mammoth cheese wheel to world record setting onions, it's big food or bust! Along the way, we'll meet the farmers and creators who bring these edible titans to life and learn what it takes to raise the vegetables from tiny seeds to truly Outrageous: Giant Foods.
It's that time of year again and everyone is buzzing around making their holiday plans. The Deens are no different. Except this year Bobby and Jamie have a treat for everyone — they're cookin' the big Thanksgiving meal for the entire family! It's about time they're giving their mama a break so she can kick back and relax. Bobby is coming home for the holiday with a few edible treats from the big city in tow. Jamie's doing his part by gathering the freshest ingredients Savannah has to offer. The boys come together in the kitchen and prepare a huge, delicious feast for Paula and the entire family.
The Deen Thanksgiving table will be bountiful — a fried turkey with cornbread dressing, sweet potato casserole, and New York City cheesecake with a pumpkin topping, just to name a few delicious dishes. It's a Deen family Thanksgiving like you've never seen before!
Christmas is a state of mind but it's a difficult state to achieve if you finish work on Christmas Eve and are expected to be as mellow as a tipsy Santa the next day, Ice Queen more like! Nigella's answer is to start early by filling her shelves with home made seasonal Beetroot and Ginger Chutney, bright red Chilli jelly (fabulous with cold ham and spiced beef), Spiced Fruits steeped in Ximinez Sherry (poured over Cornish Ice cream) and Winter Spiced Vodka. This episode is not just about condiments, Nigella will be making her Christmas Puddini truffles destined for the store cupboard but unlikely to last there for long. Nigella's Christmas cookies are welcome gifts but the most comforting aspect of all this work is the sense that Christmas doesn't have to come "off the shelf". This Stocking Filler will create a sense of homely Christmas industry but it isn't all solitary work. Nigella opens her doors to a few friends for a pre-Christmas Brunch. Featuring an Espresso martini, Triple Cheese and Onion Strata, a Glazed and toasted Vanilla Cake 'Brioche' and an Anti-oxidant Fruit salad, which could come in handy for the weeks ahead!
Living a low-carb lifestyle doesn’t mean forgoing dessert. Really! Chef George Stella and his wife, Rachel, whip up a variety of tasty treats: NY ricotta cheesecake, double chocolate walnut brownies, and praline pumpkin pie with fresh whipped cream. Eating low carb has never been tastier.
Top 5 Tips
1. Sour cream is a great low carb choice for all of your cooking and baking needs.
2. When a recipe calls for you to "butter and flour" the pan, use non-stick cooking spray and a mix of wheat bran and soy flour instead.
3. Walnuts are a great source of omega-3 fatty oils, the same oils found in salmon which, when consumed in moderation, actually help reduce cholesterol and blood pressure.
4. You can create your own, carb-curbed desserts. Try substituting soy flour for white flour and sugar substitute for the real thing. Eggs and cream are low carb and help your baked goods rise, so don't eliminate them.
5. Reinvent the piecrust with a simple mixture of melted butter (approx. two tablespoons for one crust), some ground spices, and diced pecans.
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