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6 Uses for Christmas Leftovers
Christmas is over, and you're left with crumbled wrapping paper and way too much of last night's Christmas feast. Instead of eating cookies until you're blue in the face, transform your holiday leftovers into dramatically different gourmet dishes. To see some of our ideas, read on.
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The Basics: Béchamel Sauce
Calling all home cooks: if you haven't been acquainted yet with béchamel sauce, it's time you learned a thing or two about it. Chances are you've eaten this white sauce more than a few times in your life, whether layered in moussaka, drizzled on a croque monsieur, or as a component in other classic courses. Béchamel is over 300 years old, and is such a key element of traditional French cuisine that it actually serves as the base for many other sauces (see variations after the jump).
Roundup: Joyeux Bastille Day!
Happy Bastille Day! While we can be grateful to the French for many things, including croques monsieur, Audrey Tatou, margarine, carbaret, etc., I'd like to applaud la France for pumping out decades of innovative and influential design. Yes, this would include la Tour Eiffel and Impressionism, but today I'm going to focus on furniture and interior accessories.
What's Cooking at Slashfood
We love Slashfood so much that every Thursday we round up their most delicious stories. Here are this week's finds:
- Enjoy a croque monsieur and all its different variations.
- Brunch cocktails that are sure to satisfy even the most finicky of mothers.
- Follow Slashfood's new editor to the Brooklyn Food Conference.
- Babycakes, the Manhattan bakery famed for its vegan cupcakes, has a new cookbook.
- The Skinny Chef's lightened up a comfort food favorite, pepperoni bread.
- Taste testing the new McCafé drinks from McDonald's.
What's Your Favorite Home Décor Chain Store of 2007?
I don't want to imply that I don't love boutique shops, but there's something reassuring about knowing that you can always get the basics at home-décor chain stores, wherever you are. It's kind of like eating at fast-food restaurants. Yes, you may always crave the croque monsieur at the French café on your corner, but a Double Whopper is a tried-and-true solution if you're far from home.
Bravo (Finally) Announces Top Chef 3 Contestants
On the heels of yesterday's random, miscellaneous Top Chef related news, comes official TC Season 3 news! Bravo TV has finally announced contestants and judges (don't worry, Padma's still the host). They've also let us in on this elusive mystery "special."
Today's Special: Monte Cristo Sandwich
Part French toast, part ham and cheese sandwich, the classic Monte Cristo Sandwich is an excellent quick dinner dish that will use the last bit of leftover Easter ham. A sweetly glazed ham is paired with swiss cheese in this Americanized version of the ultimate French ham and cheese sandwich, the croque monsieur. Since it's Wednesday night and we do sandwiches at my house on Wednesdays I thought this would be a taste treat.
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