June 2012
4 posts
Fruit Forward: Hedy Goldsmith Reveals the Secret...
Posted on The genuine Kitchen June 29, 2012 by Emily Codik
Thanks Emily for this sweet blog post!
(Ooh, yeah! All right! We’re jammin’: I wanna jam it wid you. We’re jammin’, jammin’, And I hope you like jammin’, too).
“Oh, hi!” Executive Pastry Chef Hedy Goldsmith exclaimed, swiftly turning away from the ice cream machine at MGFD. I had just...
The Afterlife of a Vanilla Bean
Every year in the restaurant and out in the field, I use a truckload of vanilla beans. To me, they are as important as flour, sugar, butter and eggs. I consider the vanilla bean the fifth essential ingredient.
So imagine gallons of ice cream flecked with pounds of vanilla beans. Yummers! And how about custards by the kilo with an equal amount of this decadent vanilla sprinkled through every...
That’s the Spirit: Using Liquor in Sweets
The folks at FN Dish presented me with an opportunity to blog about all things sweet…yep, a very sweet offer! This is one of my favorites:
I’m a bourbon girl, straight up. Neat or on the rocks, it doesn’t matter just as long as the vanilla, oak, caramel and spice notes work their magic. It’s pure craftsmanship at its best and only gets...
Last week, the folks at Breville came back to Miami and graciously offered to shoot a trailer for my cookbook. Look for it the end of July. Thank you Jim, Rebecca and crew and the infamous Adele, who always adds a tad bit of Aussie humor. You guys rock.