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Thursday, April 30, 2015

Ode to the Mint Julep

Ode to the Mint Julep

     
         

  

DRINK RECIPES

The Perfect Mint Julep Recipe and links for more at bottom 
Link:  From the BAR

Mint Julep  -  Link:  From The Foodnetwork

Kentucky Derby Mint Julep  -  Link: From Esquire magazine

Mint Julep -  Link:  From All recipes.com

    

The Ultimate Mint Julep Recipe  -  Link:  From the Huffington Post - Kentucky Derby

What do you serve with mint juleps?

Cookies, brownies, etc. From answers at yahoo.com
Benedictine Spread From the pauperedchef.com

bere felice
boire heureux
Glückliches Trinken
beber feliz

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AMERICAN: Kentucky Derby Day Brunch at Governor's Mansion

Kentucky Derby Brunch 
Copyright (c) 1992, Liz Waters

On the first Saturday each May, the  Kentucky Derby is run at Churchill Downs in
Louisville. To those of us caught up in the social events surrounding the Derby, a
brunch on Derby Day is a must. For the high rollers, a gathering in Frankfort hosted by
the Governor is traditional. The foods served there and in brunches all over town are 
also traditional.  Brunch just starts of a day of parties and good food to eat!



The Menu:

Mimosas Garnished with Strawberries
Stuffed Cherry Tomatoes
Prospect Cheese Grits Casserole
Country Sausage Casserole
Frosted Egg Mountain
Country Ham with Red Eye Gravy
Kentucky Sour Cream Coffee Cake
Louisville Lemon Bars
Traditional Horse Racing Pie
My Old Kentucky Home Mint Julep

The Recipes:
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Mimosas Garnished with Strawberries:

1 quart freshly squeezed orange juice
1 fifth of champagne
a pint of fresh strawberries.

Wet rim of champagne glasses and dip in sugar. Freeze glasses
Wash strawberries, but do not hull.

Pour orange juice into a punch bowl set in ice. Pour champagne over and stir once or
twice. Ladle into glasses and garnish each with a split strawberry on the rim.




Stuffed Cherry Tomatoes

1/2 cup freshly cooked crab meat, shredded
1 cup fresh shrimp, steamed and chopped
3 scallions, chopped
1/4 tsp. tabasco sauce
1 tsp. worcestershire sauce
1 tbsp. lemon juice
1/4 C mayonnaise.
30 large cherry tomatoes
Sprigs of fresh parsley

Combine seafood onions, tabasco, Worcestershire, lemon juice and mayonnaise in a
blender or food processor. Blend until smooth. Cut an X in the bottom of each tomato,
cutting to within 1/2" of the stem end. Carefully hollow out the tomatoes, draining well
and discarding pulp. Spoon or pipe crab mixture into each tomato. Top each with a sprig
of fresh parsley. Chill and serve.




Prospect Cheese Grits Casserole:

1 pound shredded sharp cheddar cheese
3 eggs, beaten
3/4 C butter
2 cloves garlic, minced
3 tsp. salt
Dash of tabasco sauce
Dash of Worcestershire sauce
1 1/2 C grits, cooked in six cups of water
1 tsp. paprika

Combine cheese, eggs, butter, garlic,  salt, tabasco, and Worcestershire sauce with cooked
grits and stir until the butter is melted. Pour into a lightly greased 2 quart casserole.
Sprinkle with paprika.
Cover and refrigerate overnight. Remove from fridge 15 minutes before baking. Bake
uncovered in a 350 degree oven for 45 minutes. Serves 10.




Country Sausage Casserole:

6 slices white bread
butter
1 pound HOT pork sausage
1 1/2 C shredded Colby cheese
6 eggs beaten
2 cups half and half
1 tsp. salt
pepper

Remove crusts from bread and spread with butter. Place in a greased 13x9x2 casserole.
Brown sausage, stirring to crumb.e Drain well. Spoon over bread slices. Sprinkle with
cheese. Combine eggs with half and half, salt and pepper. Beat well. Pour over cheese.
Cover casserole and chill overnight.
Remoe from refrigerator 15 minutes before cooking. Bake casserole uncovered at 350
degrees for 45 minutes until set. Serves 8.




Frosted Egg Mountain

12 hard cooked eggs
1/2 cup melted butter
1 tsp. minced green onion
salt and pepper
1/8 tsp. GOOD quality curry powder
1/2 C sour cream
chives and parsley
4 slices of bacon, fried hard, drained and crumbled
bibb lettuce leaves, washed, dried, and chilled

Line a small round mixing bowl with a large piece of saran wrap. Set aside. Chop 8 of the
hard cooked eggs and mix with butter, onion, salt and pepper, curry powder. Spoon into
mixing bowl and chill at least three hours (or overnight). Unmold egg mixture onto a
bed of bibb lettuce leaves. Spread evenly with sour cream to over. Cut remaining 4 eggs
into wedges and arrange around the outer perimeter of mountain. Sprnkle with
chopped chives and crumbled bacon...garnish with parsley sprigs.




Country Ham with Red Eye Gravy

3 good-sized country ham slices
extra bits of country ham fat
100 Proof Kentucky Sour Mash Bourbon
strong black coffee
water

In a heavy iron skillet, render bits of country ham fat to form grease. In grease, fry
country ham slices until done. Remove from pan and keep warm. To remaining grease
in pan, add a dash of Kentucky bourbon whiskey, 1/2 C strong black coffee, and 1 cup
water. Bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer five minutes. Serve ladled over ham
with additional gravy alongside.




Kentucky Sour Cream Coffee Cake

1 cup margarine
6 eggs
3 cups flour
1/4 tsp. baking soda
2 3/4 cups sugar
grated rind of 1/2 lemon
1 tsp. vanilla extract
1 cup sour cream

Bring margarine and eggs to room temperature. Grease and flour a ten inch 
tube pan.

Mix flour and baking soda. Beat margarine until fluffy. Gradually add sugar,
beating until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating for one minute
after each addition. Add lemon peel and vanilla, beat well. Add rest of dry 
ingredients and sour cream, alternately, beating each addition in before adding 
the next. Gently turn batter into prepared pan. Bake at 350 for 1 1/2 hours or 
until no crumbs cling to a wooden toothpick inserted into the center. Cool 
fifteen minutes on a wire wrack before iinverting on serving plate. 
Dust with sifted powdered sugar and garnish with sprigs of fresh mint.




Louisville Lemon Bars

2 1/2 C all purpose flour, divided
3/4 C powdered sugar, divided
1 cup butter
1/2 tsp. baking powder
4 eggs beaten
2 cups sugar
juice of two lemons
grated zest of one lemon.
1 lemon sliced thin, and twisted for garnish
sprigs of fresh mint for garnish.

Combine 2 cups four with 1/2 cup powdered sugar. Cut butter into flour mixture with a
pastry blender until mixture resembles cornmeal. Spoon flour mixture into a 13x9x2 pan
and press into place. evenly.Bake at 350 degrees for 20-25 minutes or until lightly
browned. Remove from oven. Combine 1/2 C flour and baking powder and set aside.
Combine eggs with 2 cups sugar. Add lemon juice and zest. Beat well. Stir dry
ingredients into egg mixture and pour over the hot crust. Bake at 350 degrees for an
additonal 25 minutes. Cool on wire rack. Dust with sifted powdered sugar and cut into
bars. Stack on glass plate and garnish with lemon slices twisted (cut round slice halfway
through. Turn one side one way and the other the other way so it stands up) and fresh
sprigs of mint.




Not too far from downtown Louisville is a motel and restaurant called The Melrose
Inn. At this restaurant, Derby Pie was developed for the first time and the recipe was
COPYRIGHTED.
If you are really lucky, you will be able to serve a Derby Pie purchased from the Melrose
Inn. If not, you can try this recipe which is similar, but of course not the real thing!
Every Louisville hostess has her own way of making this wonderful dessert. Each recipe
is just a bit different and while everyone does anyhow, no one but the Melrose Inn may
legally call it Derby Pie.

The Traditional Horse Racing Pie

2 eggs, slightly beaten
1 C sugar
1/4 C all-purpose flour
1/2 C butter or margarine, melted and cooled
1/2 C chopped English walnuts *
1/2 C chopped black walnuts *
1 6 oz. pkg. chocolate chips
1 Tablespoon 100 proof Kentucky Bourbon
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 unbaked 9" pie shell

* May substitute 1 Cup of chopped pecans

Mix the first nine ingredients together and pour into pie shell. Bake at 350 degrees F. for
45 minutes, or until filling is set.
Cool for at least 30 minutes before serving.




Mint Juleps for Derby Day
Copyright 1990, Liz Waters

Crushed Ice
2 jiggers Kentucky 100 Proof Sour Mash Bourbon
1 jigger minted simple syrup (below)
cutting of fresh mint, rinsed


   Fill sterling silver julep cup or old-fashioned glass with crushed ice. Pour bourbon
over ice and then syrup. Belabor somewhat with a swizzle stick until the glass begins to
frost. Slip a sprig of mint and a straw into the glass and serve. This is a sipping drink and
quite powerful, so proceed with caution.

Minted Simple Syrup

1 cup cold "branch water"
2 cups sugar
6 healthy stalks of mint, fresh from the garden

 On the night before serving, bring water and sugar to a boil. Boil, stirring, until sugar is
completely dissolved. Cool to room temperature and add leaves from the mint, stirring
in, bruising the leaves ever so gently. Cover and leave on counter overnight. Strain
through cheesecloth and use in juleps, above.




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Wednesday, April 29, 2015

Kentucky Derby May 2nd, 2015 4-7 pm TV and more!


It is of course the most famous American horse race. I am here to talk about some of the food and drink favorites. PHOTOS BELOW LINKS!!


MINT JULEP:  Must have a mint julep in a mint julep silver cup.
See link below for recipe from "Early Times:
http://www.kentuckyderby.com/party/food-and-entertainment/libations/early-times-mint-julep  ***** This is their recipe. Other good stuff on the website.
2 cups sugar  *****  2 cups water  *****  sprigs of fresh mint  ***** crushed ice  *****  Early Times Kentucky Bourbon  *****  Silver julep cups.  You might want to do more research on this as some of the mint is to be muddled. 

KENTUCKY BURGOO from Emeril Lagasse - link below
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/emeril-lagasse/kentucky-burgoo-recipe2/index.html

KENTUCKY HOT BROWNS  - Brown Hotel in Louisville
http://kyderbyfan.freeservers.com/derbyjulep.html

HORSE RACE PIE - same link directly above

Check out this Triple Crown site:  http://www.starchefs.com/triple_crown/html/

One of my favorite food websites:  allrecipes.com 20 derby recipes:
http://allrecipes.com/Recipes/Holidays-and-Events/Events-and-Gatherings/Kentucky-Derby/Top.aspx

















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AMERICAN: Kentucky Derby from Cocktail Times

COCKTAILS
This year, go beyoung Mint Julep. Try your favourite Kentucky Bourbons with the following recipe: 

Mint Julep Martini
- 2 parts of orange liqueur
- 2 parts of Kentucky bourbon
- 1/4 oz Vanilla Vodka
- 1/4 oz Peppermint Schnapps

Shake and strain into a chilled martini glass. Garnish with mint springs and/or an orange twist 

More Cocktails




  • Mint Julep
  • Mint Julep Southern Style
  • Kentucky B&B
  • Louisville Cooler


    DERBY FOOD

    Louisville Benedictine
    - 1 cucumber, peeled
    - 1 medium onion
    - 1 lb. cream cheese
    - 2 - 3 drops green food coloring

    Grate cucumber and onions (may use a food processor) and drain well in a strainer, pressing down with a spoon to remove all liquid. Discard liquid. Add drained cucumbers and onion to cream cheese and mix well in food processor. Color with 2 - 3 drops of green food coloring. Use as a cracker spread or a dip.


    Baby Hot Browns
    Baby Hot Browns- 1 chicken bouillon cube
    - 1/2 cup hot water
    - 1/2 cup half and half
    - 3 tablespoons unsalted butter
    - 2 tablespoons of flour
    - 1 cup grated Swiss cheese
    - 5 strips bacon, cooked, crumbled
    - 1 onion, sliced thin
    - 6 ounces cooked turkey, thinly sliced
    - 18 slices of party rye or small French bread
    - Parsley

    Dissolve bouillon cube in hot water, add half-and-half. In a saucepan, melt butter and add flour. Whisk and cook until mixture is frothy and raw flour taste is gone. While stirring, add the bouillon mixture. Stir constantly with a whisk until the sauce thickens and begins to bubble. Add Swiss cheese and stir until smooth. (If sauce needs to be thinned, heat and add a little water).

    Place slices of turkey and onion on each bread slice. Top with sauce and crumbled bacon. Heat at 350 degrees for 10 minutes. Garnish with parsley


    Dead Heat Louisville Burgoo
    - 1 large chicken, at least 4 lbs.
    - 1 - 2 lbs. Lean stew meat (beef, veal and/or lamb)
    - 3 - 4 pints water
    - 1 1/2 tsp. coarsely ground pepper
    - 1/2 tsp. cayenne pepper
    - 2 small cans tomato puree
    - 12 potatoes
    - 4 large onions, chopped
    - 1 large head cabbage, finely chopped
    - 6 - 8 medium tomatoes, peeled and chopped (or 3 1-lb. cans tomatoes)
    - 6 - 8 ears corn, cut off cob (or 2 cans cut corn)
    - 1 lb. fresh carrots, sliced
    - 1 - 2 tablespoons salt
    - 1 tsp. pepper
    - 1/2 cup Worcestershire sauce

    Cook chicken and other meat in water with coarsely ground pepper and cayenne pepper until chicken separates from the bones and the meat is very tender (about 40 minutes). Remove bones, shred meat and return to the liquid. Add tomato purée, potatoes, onions, cabbage, tomatoes, carrots and corn. Season with salt, pepper and Worcestershire sauce. Cook slowly for 2 ­ 3 hours, until consistency of a thick stew, stirring from the bottom to keep from scorching. Add water, if necessary, to keep from sticking. If you like additional vegetables, add 2 cups fresh cut butterbeans, 2 cups fresh sliced okra and/or 2 green peppers, finely chopped.


    Fried Green Tomatoes
    - 6 medium tomatoes (green, but turning pink)
    - 1 cup cornmeal
    - 1/2 tsp. salt
    - 1/2 tsp. pepper
    - 1/2 tsp. oregano
    bacon drippings

    Cut tomatoes horizontally into 1/2-inch thick slices, discarding the top and bottom slices. Mix cornmeal with seasonings. Coat the tomatoes well. In hot skillet containing bacon drippings, add tomato slices in one layer. Lower heat to medium and fry for about 6 more minutes, or until golden brown. Drain on paper towels. Repeat with remaining tomato slices.


    Grits Casserole
    - 1 cup quick grits
    - 4 cups boiling water
    - 1 tsp. salt
    - 1/2 cup grated Cheddar cheese
    - 1 small roll garlic cheese
    - 1/2 stick butter
    - 2 eggs
    - 1/2 cup milk
    - dash Tabasco
    - salt to taste
    - corn flakes, buttered, crushed paprika

    Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cook grits in boiling, salted water until done (about 5 ­ 7 minutes). Add Cheddar cheese, garlic cheese and butter and stir until melted. Beat eggs with milk, add Tabasco and salt and mix together with grits mixture. Pour a well-greased 2-quart casserole and sprinkle with buttered, crushed corn flakes and paprika. Bake about 45 minutes.

    (Source: The Kentucky Derby Museum)
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