ZEPPOLES
ITALIAN DOUGHNUTS
I'm gonna show you how to make Zeppoles from scratch, also known as Italian doughnuts, usually found at street fairs, served in a brown paper bag and served with a mount of powdered sugar. I get zeppoles once a year at the san gennnaro feast in NYC. If you ever wondered how to make donuts without yeast this may be the recipe you're looking for. These are the best doughnuts in my opinion and one of my favorite childhood foods. And this is the easiest donut recipe I have come across. This is my first dessert and of course, it's an Italian dessert. Be careful when you fry donuts at home.
TRAIN YOUR PALATE:
HOW TO MAKE A VINAIGRETTE
Get in the kitchen with me for this one. It's not as flashy or visually appealing as my other videos but learning how to train your palate and how to make a vinaigrette is super important. We are going to build a vinaigrette step by step, tasting it along the way to help you understand taste, flavors and balance. I will also show you how to properly dress a salad and how to plate it. Hope you like this different kind of format.
EGGS BENEDICT WITH BLENDER HOLLANDAISE SAUCE
In today's video, I will show you how to make a tasty eggs benedict with blender hollandaise sauce. You now know how to poach an egg (video for that here) now I'm going to show you to put it all together for eggs benedict at home. I make a blender hollandaise sauce, rather than use a double boiler, this is often called a 1 minute hollandaise sauce because of how easy and quick it is to make.
My sauce actually broke in this video so I'll also show you
how to fix a broken hollandaise sauce.
About
NOT ANOTHER COOKING SHOW
I believe cooking should be a basic human skill, like reading, writing, or driving a car. I don't have a way with words like I do with a camera, so let the late, great Anthony Bourdain explain my purpose.
"But I do think the idea that basic cooking skills are a virtue, that the ability to feed yourself and a few others with proficiency should be taught to every young man and woman as a fundamental skill, should become as vital to growing up as learning to wipe one’s own ass, cross the street by oneself, or be trusted with money.”
My goal is to make sure more people are cooking today, and cooking with confidence, than there was yesterday.
Quote from Anthony Bourdain's book
“Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook”