This recipe cam from the little town of Villefranche-sur-Mer on the French Riviera. The beautiful people of this town show their love for tradition and old world style through many of their dishes. Lobster with couscous and brunoise of vegetables salad is one of them.
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Lobster with Couscous and Brunoise Vegetable Salad
Lobster with couscous and brunoise vegetable salad is an impressive dish bursting with color and flavor from the French Riviera.
Ingredients
For the vegetable brunoise
Ingredients
For the vegetable brunoise
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Instructions
For the lobster and couscous
Boil a whole lobster for 15-20 minutes. Drain lobster and allow to come to room temperature. Remove the shells. Slice the tail thinly into medallions Boil chicken stock. Add couscous, cover and let sit for 5 minutes. Fluff with a fork and add the finely dice onion, tarragon, parsley, cilantro and chives and add to couscous in a bowl. . Add the juice of 2 lemons to cereal mixture. Add ½ cup olive oil and salt and pepper to taste.
For the vegetable brunoise
Cut all of the vegetables into 1-2 centimeter squares, all equal in size. Mix all the ingredients in a bowl.
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Thin slices of fennel, floured and fried 1 large tarragon leaf Browned butter
For the presentation
Place a ring mold in the center of a plate. Place the couscous mixture into the ring mold and press gently. (about ½ inch thick) Decorate with thin slices of lobster tail medallions shingle-style. Knuckle meat and claws go in the center with a fried sage leaf. Spread the colorful brunoise around the plate to garnish. Remove the ring mold. Drizzle vegetables with lemon and olive oil.
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Mahi mahi with orange, wine, garlic and thyme is a delicious and healthy meal that is as good looking as it is tasting.
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Mahi Mahi with orange, wine, garlic and thyme
Mahi mahi with orange, wine, garlic and thyme is a delicious and healthy meal that is as good looking as it is tasting.
Instructions
Preheat oven to 300 degrees. Season the fish on both sides with salt and pepper. Heat a non-stick skillet over medium heat. Add butter and sauté fish for 5 minutes on both sides or until golden brown. Place the fish in a single layer on a parchment paper-lined baking sheet and keep warm in oven. (The general rule of thumb for cooking fish in a 400 degree oven is 10 minutes for each inch of thickness.)
Meanwhile, deglaze the bottom of the pan with wine stirring to scrape up the bits of fond on the bottom. Increase the heat to medium high and add the garlic and thyme. Cook until reduced by about half. Stir in orange juice, and zest; Add the butter and stir until melted. Remove from heat immediately. Season with salt and pepper. Drizzle the fish with the orange sauce.
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This dish goes great with roasted fennel and saffron rice. You can also substitute chicken breasts for the fish. See "saffron rice" recipe on this website. © Galley Chef All Rights Reserved
Many restaurants throughout France and Belgium offer mussels marinière. It is the classic combination of mussels with onion, garlic and white wine and a fabulous broth for dipping crusty bread into.
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Mussels Marinière (sailor-style)
This classic french preparation for mussels couldn't be easier. This classic combination of mussels with shallots, garlic and white wine has a fabulous broth for dipping crusty bread into.
Instructions
Combine all ingredients in a large pot, cover, place on high heat and bring to a boil. Cook for 10 minutes. Twice while they are cooking, shake the kettle in an up and down motion to toss the mussels so they all open. Serve in bowls with the broth and some crusty bread for sopping.
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Recipe Notes The Pernod is the secret ingredient folks, so don't leave it out! For mussels with cream sauce: 2 T butter 2 T flour 1 cup heavy cream Melt butter in a small sauce pan. Add flour, add broth from cooked mussels and add the cream. Spoon over mussels. © Galley Chef All Rights Reserved
When yachting, most people just naturally lean toward eating fish. After all, you are on the open sea. This pan seared sea bass with yellow corn sauce is a delicious dish that is as good-looking as it is tasting. It rivals any you could order in a high-end restaurant.
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Pan Seared Sea Bass with Yellow Corn Sauce
A delicious dish that is as good looking as it is tasting. This pan seared sea bass will rival any you could order in a high-end restaurant.
Instructions
For the sea bass
Salt and pepper both sides of the sea bass. Set aside and prepare sauce. After sauce is done, Heat a non-stick pan on medium heat. Add olive oil and cook the seabass on all sides until golden brown.
For the corn sauce
Cook corn in boiling water for 10 minutes. Cut the corn off the cob and set aside. Heat oil in a sauté pan over medium heat. Add the garlic, shallots and salt. Sauté for 1 minutes. Add the corn and cook for 2 more minutes. Increase the heat to medium high and add the white wine. Cook until reduced ¾ of the way. Remove from heat. Put the mixture into a food process and add the chives and heavy cream. Process until smooth. Strain through a Foley food mill. Add lemon juice. Season with salt to taste.
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Pappardella are large, very broad, flat pasta noodles, similar to wide fettuccine. The name derives from the verb “pappare”, to gobble up. Pappardelle is a well-loved type of pasta in Tuscany. Tagliatelle, tagliolini, pappardelle, tortellini, and lasagne are some of the pastas made from sfoglia, the “leaves” of egg-and-flour dough. Tagliatelle which simply means cut pasta is a pasta wider than fettuccine but narrower than pappardelle. Legend has it that the tagliatelle shape–strips of pasta about a half inch wide, was invented in 1487 by Maestro Zafirano, a cook from the village of Bentivoglio, on the occasion of the marriage of Lucrezia Borgia to the Duke of Ferrara. The cook was said to be inspired by the beautiful blond hair of the bride. Despite the appeal of this romantic notion, it seems likely
that the invention of tagliatelle in Italy is earlier. Not only do we have pictorial representations of tagliatelle before this date in the Tacuinum Sanitatis, an eleventh-century Arab health manual translated into Italian that was first illustrated in the fourteenth century, but in the Compendium de naturis et proprietatibus alimentorum, a list of local Emilian nomenclature for foods compiled in 1338 by Barnaba de Ritinis da Reggio di Modena, the entry for something called fermentini indicates that it is cut into strips like tagliatelle and boiled.
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Papardelle with Leeks and Bacon From: GalleyChef.org
Creamy, pasta with smoky bacon. This is the best pasta I've ever had!
Instructions
Heat oil and butter in a large heavy pot over medium heat. Add bacon and cook, stirring often, until fat is rendered and bacon is crisp, 5-8 minutes. Add leeks and season with salt. Increase heat to medium-high and cook, stirring often, until leeks begin to brown, 5-8 minutes. Add cream, tarragon, pernod and 1/2 cup water. Bring to a boil, reduce heat, and simmer, stirring occasionally, until sauce is thickened and coats the back of a spoon, 5-8 minutes.
Meanwhile, cook pasta in a large pot of boiling salted water, stirring occasionally, until al dente. Drain pasta, reserving 2 cups pasta cooking liquid. Add pasta, Parmesan, and 1 cup pasta cooking liquid to sauce and stir to coat. Increase heat to medium and continue stirring,adding more cooking liquid as needed, until sauce coats pasta.
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This sauce originated in Naples, Italy. It is said that the Prostitutes (puttana’s) needed to make something quick and nourishing between “appointments”. This sauce was created for just this reason. It has the flavors of Southern Italy – very intense, chunky and rich in flavor.
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PUTTANESCA SAUCE
Ragu bolognese originated in Belogna, Italy. This variation of the recipe uses ground lamb to really give the sauce a meaty flavor.
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Ragu with ground lamb
Instructions
Heat the oil in a dutch oven over medium heat. Add the onions, celery, carrots, crushed red pepper flakes and garlic. Season with salt. Cook until vegetables are tender, about 5 minutes. Add the beef and lamb and cook on high until brown. Add the tomato paste and cook 5 minutes. Add the tomatoes and half and half and cook for 10 minutes. Add the wine, nutmeg and parmesan cheese rind, reduce the heat to low and cook for 2 hours. Season with salt.
Recipe Notes
This is delicious with any shape pasta, however, traditionally it’s served with Tagliatelle. © Galley Chef All Rights Reserved
Scallop Crudo is a raw fish dish doused with lemon juice and chive oil with a creamy texture and a flavor that evokes the spirit of the umami Gods!
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Scallop Crudo
Instructions
Thinly slice scallops. Combine sriracha chili sauce and buttermilk. Drizzle over scallops. Sprinkle poppy seeds over the scallops and dot the dish with japanese chile paste. (yuzu kosho) Drizzle chive oil and lemon juice over the dish.
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Shepherd’s Pie is the perfect way to use leftover roasted meat of any kind and leftover potatoes of any kind. A St. Stephen’s Day pie is made using leftover turkey or ham. A Cumberland pie is a version using breadcrumbs on top instead of potatoes. The English also make a similar dish with fish known as fish pie.
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Shepherd's Pie
This is a savory dish of meat and vegetables topped with a cloud of whipped potatoes that will satisfy the manliest of appetites!
Instructions
Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Place oil into a sauté pan and set over medium high heat. Add onion and sauté 5 minutes. Add the garlic and stir to combine. Grind the lamb in a food processor and add the lamb to the onion mixture. Salt and pepper to taste. Cook 2 minutes thten add the flour and stir. Add the tomato paste or ketchup, beer, Worcestershire, rosemary, lima beans and stir. Bring the mixture to a boil, reduce heat to low, cover and simmer 10 minutes. Spread mixture into a glass baking dish. Mix potatoes, carrots and half and half in a food processor. Top with potatoes, sealing the edges. Bake for 25 minutes or until the potatoes begin to brown. Cool for 20 minutes before serving.
For the potato topping
Put the potatoes, carrot puree and half and half in a food processor or blender and whip until combined.
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