Recipes: Our Memorial Day Weekend Menu
Stock your cooler and get the grill hot: Memorial Day weekend is almost here! Whether you’re planning one of your legendary backyard parties or enjoying a simple meal on the porch, consider serving one or more of our favorite summertime recipes:
Alexandre Dumas Potato Salad
Lighten up the classic potato salad with James Beard's preferred version, which is moistened with olive oil and white wine instead of mayonnaise.
Chile–Lime Skirt Steak
Martha Hall Foose gets maximum tenderness and flavor out of skirt steak by applying a tangy marinade.
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Eye Candy: Mango and Pineapple Carpaccio
Pastry chef James DiStefano, who fashions balanced and stylish desserts at New York's Rouge Tomate, prepared this striking dish at a Beard House dinner earlier this month. It featured mango and pineapple carpaccio with matching sorbets, coconut tapioca, macadamia cake, and coffee molasses.
Click here to see more photos from Rouge Tomate's event.
Test Your Eat-Q: Frozen Desserts
Summer officially arrived on Sunday, and we welcome the hot weather as an excuse to gorge on ice cream, sorbet, gelato... We can feel the brain freeze setting in already.
Before you're seduced by the chirpy tune of a passing ice cream truck, take a stab at this question:
Which of these educational programs is based in St. Louis, Missouri?
A. The Frozen Dessert Institute B. The Ice Cream Academy C. The College of Custard D. The Institute for Ice CreamFind out if you guessed correctly and learn some other trivia about frozen treats.
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