Food & Wine Tasting - February 29th

Change in my plans and I'll be working this Saturday!!!

February 28th

12:00 to 4:00 PM

I have some great recipes/samples with Sardines, Cockles, Mussels, Anchovies ... you get the drift.

Food & WIne Tastings - UPDATE

Hey all!  Hours are being cut at the store;  I'm the first one to get cut.  I have a client who wants food demos, so I'll be working for myself.  Might as well go where the money is.  Also going back to NY to see my parents.  If the store needs me,  I'll be back sometime in April.

You know how to reach me!

XOXO

Recipes: Sesame Cream Cheese - Unexpected Company Seafood Spread - Summer Sausage with Jarlsberg Spread and Cornichon - Beef Chili

I'm finally getting around to posting recipes from my previous couple of tastings.  I'll start with the 3 recipes that received rave reviews from customers and my fellow TFM teammates.  It was rated as one of my best sampling assortments/ideas.

First up is an ever so easy recipe that can be quickly prepared.  It's one of those "who knew" recipes.  The most commented "who knew" was - "who knew you could marinate cream cheese in soy sauce?"

Sesame Cream Cheese

1 block (8 oz.) cream cheese         

Soy sauce
toasted sesame seeds
Sesmark Plain Rice Crackers

In a medium-small container, place cream cheese.  Add enough soy sauce until the block of cream cheese just starts to float.  Cover and refrigerate. Marinate 3 hours up to overnight; turning halfway through.

Note:  If marinating  3 to 5 hours use 100% soy sauce. If marinating overnight, use 50/50 mixture soy sauce/water. 

Remove from soy sauce and coat with sesame seeds.  Serve with Rice Crackers.

*****

Loved, loved, loved by everyone who tasted.

Unexpected Company Seafood Spread

8 oz. cream cheese, softened

3 Tbl. TFM Original Cocktail Sauce

1½ tsp. Old Bay seasoning

1/3 c. diced red onion

8 oz. TFM (Deli) prepared seafood salad

In a medium bowl, mix together cream cheese, cocktail sauce and Old Bay until smooth.  Stir in onion and seafood salad.  Cover and chill 4 hours or overnight.  Serve.

A few comments on Saturday were 'not enough cocktail sauce' and other 'not enough Old Bay'.  You can add these ingredients to taste.  However, I must say, that I prepared double recipe so I would have it for both Saturday and Sunday.  Sunday the flavors were much more pronounced and no one commented on lack of flavor for either ingredient. 

*****

I'm not a summer sausage fan, but we had some, in the shape of a football no less.  It looked like the perfect product to sample out.  But ... you know me ... let's do something with hit.  This was perfect - easy to prepare, delicious, and a nice change from the "usual".

Summer Sausage with Jarlsberg Spread and Cornichons
1 Olympia Provisions summer sausage
1 container TFM Jarlsberg Spread
1 jar Maille Cornishons
crackers

Drain a few cornishons and slice horizontally.  Set aside.

On your favorite cracker layer - a slice of summer sausage, Jarlsberg spread and top with a cornishon. Serve.

*****

This last recipe was on the meat counter at the store.  I gave it a go.  This recipe just parts ways with the "love, love, love".  It was more of the okay, nice, it's good.  Most of the customers, TFM teammates and I enjoy more of a meaty, thick, hearty chili.  The flavor/spices in here were nice, but it wasn't close to thick and hearty. Definitely not meaty.  Way too much bell pepper.  But here it is.