Tuesday this week I taught my third cooking class at Orange Tree Imports. I think this one was the most fun yet. The theme was vegetable side dishes “easy enough for everyday, fancy enough for Thanksgiving”.
We made from-scratch green bean casserole.
Green bean casserole without the crispy shallot topping
Green bean casserole with the crispy shallot topping
Potato Poblano Gratin, pretty much the Gourmet recipe as is. I demoed making the rajas, strips of roasted poblano and fried onions. I have a Rick Bayless cookbook where he calls them “essential rajas”, and I can’t help but think of them as essential rajas whenever I make them. But nobody seems to think that’s as funny as I do.
“Essential” rajas
Winter squash gratin – I put my recipe on Food52.
Winter squash gratin
Brulee’d Sweet Potatoes – one of the first recipes I put online, with a Photoshop image montage.
