>> pã©pin: my spicy and attractive combination with all the stuff from the supermarket. i have dry tomato. i have olive, garlic, tarragon, feta cheese, a little bit of pimentos, some lemon juice, olive oil, pepper. mix it together in a beautiful
iceberg wrap here. here we are. this is it: savory iceberg cup. it can be a first course, a salad, or a light lunch. i am jacques pepin, and this is fast food my way. [playful instrumental music]
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i'm starting by making a dessert, a very easy type of dessert because i am using a tortilla, which i always have in my refrigerator, at the base for a pear tart, and that's a nice way of doing it. and i use those, actually, for pizza.
i use them for many different type of things. you get them eight, ten inches. of course, you buy the flour tortilla, not the one with masa harina. that is with corn. and what do you, there i have about a tablespoon
and a half of butter here that i put in the oven for a minute to melt. put a bit of sugar on top of this. i will dip that in there. that will caramelize. and then leave it underneath, and i will have a beautiful
caramel under the tart here. and that's about all there is to it. and then pear. i am using bartlett pear here. basically, any pear will do. some are more ripe that other, and that's always the problem with fruit.
you know, the riper it is, the less time it has to cook to--to cook. so here, one. two pears should do it for four people with our beautiful red pear. you will tend to use large pear for the dessert rather than the
small pear, which are too hard, like seckel pear. two. well, this one is extra. just put them in a wedge around, like if you are doing a flower, you know? this way. and you continue with the
inside in the same manner. try to--to stagger it so that-- like the petal of a flower, if it's too big, you cut a piece. well, it should be just about right. two more. one here.
one here. one here. this one i can put in that corner. this one here, and that's about it. okay. on top of that, you want to put a couple of tablespoon of sugar. that's one tablespoon.
oh, i suppose, maybe 1 1/2 at the most. and maybe a tablespoon of butter. tarts in france are usually butter and sugar. and that's basically it. now, if you want to put spice in it--like apple, you know,
people would put cinnamon or thing like this, and it's fine, but it bring you another taste altogether. okay, this is on a silpat, so called. nothing stick to it, and it's important because it's going to to create a caramel there,
and it will tend to stick. so that goes into the oven, 400 degree, about 30 minute, 20--well, 25, 30 minute. here we go. maybe i put it on top. good. the dessert is on the way. so it's time for the first
course of the meal, and today we're going to do nantucket bay scallop in a mignonette sauce. and later on, we're going to do an italian sausage patty with a masa harina. and the pear is our dessert. so there i'm going to start with those tiny scallop.
you can see those here. those are--i mean, i know we get them in the--on the east coast in boston, certainly, what we call taylor scallop, and they come in different part of the country. you can insert your knife in the corner.
there is a little hole here. and scrape it underneath to open, and you see that scallop here, a whole scallop with everything which goes with it. there is two abducting muscle. so certainly, you have the gut around that you remove, of course, but then in addition
to this, very often, you have that bright red or orange which is the roe, you know, or the egg. and this is prized often, but on those smaller one, we don't really usually take it. they just will slide out of that--make sure the whole thing
will slide out, just to keep-- whoop, they are slippery-- to keep the center of your scallop. those are tiny bay scallop, as you see, and very, very sweet. i think i'm going to eat that one. mmm, it's good.
if you cannot get those tiny bay scallop like this nantucket bay, you can always take larger one and cut them into pieces like this, and it's fine. however, when you get the large scallop, you usually would remove the abducting muscle. for example,
here you can see it. so this is the abducting muscle, that little piece of whiter things. so we're going to do a very simple type of sauce here with shallot, kind of a mustard sauce. so finely chopped shallot.
about a tablespoon--one or two tablespoon of chopped shallots. okay, mustard, french mustard here, french type mustard. salt, pepper. so we're doing basically a mustard sauce. a dash of a good red wine vinegar.
and certainly, there you want to use the best possible oil you can get, you know, to complement the taste of the scallop here. about three to one. three--three--three-- four to one. i would tend to have it
a bit less acid, and my wife will make it usually too acid for me. so i'll taste this. yeah, it's pretty good. so we can season our scallop in there. and you don't have to marinate them long, because this is
pretty potent, and those are very delicate scallop. so we can present them in this. but i want to do a garnish for that, and the garnish is going to be done with cucumber. you can peel it or leave it whole. if you want to peel it,
you go in one stroke like this, you know, from this end that you cut. makes it easier. you can leave it whole, but in any case, often, i use a cucumber just like this. and i keep peeling until i see the seed.
turn it on the other side and continue peeling it in the same way. and i do a salad with this. and do the side in the same way. and i have quite a lot out of one cucumber, as you can see here. it is a good vegetable peeler,
so that's good. what we are going to do is to take a few of those large strip of cucumber, put them together, and i'll do a julienne of it. you know, just roll it together... and cut them into a spaghettilike mixture,
you know, what we call a julienne, to serve that, and the crunchiness of that will go well with the scallop. then we'll put a couple of radish here now. and cut the ends of the radish. so here you go for--not only
you have the color but as well-- but basically, for me, the acidic is relatively important. you know, it should look good, but it should especially taste and in little dice. i can even use those bay scallop to serve them in. different way of doing it.
i could do a nest--a nest of the julienne of cucumber here. put my scallop in the center. scallop and a bit of radish on top. this is very fresh, crunchy. the other one, i'll do-- maybe i'll put that first. like, a dozen or so scallop
maybe a little bit of this on top of it. yeah. and some of the radish around. this is good also for cocktail parties. sometime i do it even without much of--without the mustard, even.
i serve it just like this-- when i can get those scallop during the right time of the year--just by itself. it's great. put that around if people want to grab a little bit of it-- eat with it. some of this.
and this is a nantucket bay scallop in mignonette sauce. you know, a great wine to have with this is a muscadet here from the loire valley. it's very mineral, strong, and it's always great with oyster, scallop, or thing like this.
that'd be perfect with that wine. scallop would be great with that. and now on to the main course. we're going to do italian sausage patty, again, in our style of using the supermarket. i go to the supermarket,
and i can buy those italian sausage. don't forget to remove the-- you know, the casing. but at my market, very often, they come even without casing in the form of patty, like this, just as people use them for breakfast.
so what i do, i take about a pound of this here, and i'm going to put a little bit of pepper flake because this one are not as seasoned as the one i conventionally use. salt. oh, there is enough. pepper.
again, a little bit. i'm going to put pumpkin seed a bit of mushroom in there. put a bit of garlic in it. maybe one clove of garlic. so you can make your own hamburger, like, you know, in a sense, like this. some chives in there.
why not? and i always add some bread to it, like a country bread, to absorb some of the juice. that should be enough or maybe too much, even. i have all kind of recipe that i use leftover bread, not that this one is left over.
it's still fresh. well, that should be more than enough here. put the bread in there. a good cup, cup and a half. then the best way to mix it is really with your finger. there is no other way. and i have a pound of meat,
as i said, here, and for four patty, so that give me about-- about four ounces of meat per person, which should be fine. that's it. and i can-- i think i'll put a dash of olive oil in there. and we'll start the patty.
when you do that, try to break it in half and each half in half so that you have about the same size patty. yeah, that should be about fine. there we are. you know, we use--i use when i do pate--for example,
in french cooking, we often do pate for the holiday, and very often, i use the meat like that from the supermarket, again, all seasoned, and then i do, addition to this, sometimes it's pheasant, sometimes it's whatever, but it's an easy way of using the supermarket, which
is what the type of cooking that i'm doing is all about, you know: using the supermarket as a prep cook. you go there; you have things bone out for you; the mushroom are sliced if you want; the spinach are clean;
and it's a great way of doing it. i'm gonna wash my hand. so this... is going to go full blast now, and i'm going to cover it, because it's not the type of meat that you want to do rare, of course--the pork, you know--
even with all the seasoning. so it will take about a couple of minute on each side. it's fine. and during that time, i'm going to cook some corn to go with it. i have a cup of grits here or polenta or masa harina-- you can choose--and four cup of
water. i'll put a good dash of salt in this. and that cook very fast. it's easy to use, and we love it at home. let's see how that thing is going. [sizzling]
it is going pretty well. i think i'm going to move it it goes faster on that stove. and when you put this, you want to put it gently like this. sprinkle it on top. and you want to cook it for two or three minute until it thicken.
and i think it's time for me to turn this over. [loud sizzling] let's see now. looks good. now i'm going to lower the heat and let it cook on lower heat for about three, four minute. see, this is--
this is ready now. nice and juicy. they have a little bit of crystallization. and i could put a dash of white wine in there or water just to melt the make sure that if you put white wine, as i did here, you want to
boil it, as it did, you know, for a few seconds to eliminate the harshness of the wine and also the alcohol, you know. so now, this is a kind of homey type of--type of dish. serve that in there. that's plenty. here is one patty.
which one is nice? darker or lighter? just a little bit of the juice, you know, on top of it. maybe a couple of the nuts here--i have nuts in there-- so if i have more nuts, a few on top. and this is great, you know.
this is the italian sausage patty with the masa harina as a main course. and my crispy pear tart should be ready now, so let's check it out. yes. whoop. you can see that a fair amount
of--or some of the sugar and butter run around a little bit here, but it's fine. the beauty of that type of thing is that it never sticks, i hope. oh, that's it, you see? nice and dry. so what we're going to do is
glaze it with a little bit of apricot. i have an apricot glaze here which is an apricot jam. i mean, often, you know, people buy glaze, and often, the glaze is made with some of the fruit, usually a fair amount of gelatin in it, you know, and you warm it
up, and after when you put it on the fruit, it never move again, you see those pastry shop thing, you know. so this is a very chunky type of just apricot jam. i make my own, and it's very chunky like this, and i love it,
so i don't mind if there is pieces of apricot on top of it. on the contrary, i love it. in the middle. cover it like this as much as you can. and we're going to transfer that to a-- it would be good on a board
if you have little piece of burned dough around, like i have here, cut it off, you know, so it doesn't show too much. and we could put some pistachio on top of it here. maybe i'll crush the pistachio here a little bit--that's it-- to put it on that simple pear
tart. and that, i would want to have that probably lukewarm, just the way it is. it's a bit maybe hot now, but... you can see that it's very crunchy. cut it on this side. very dark underneath.
beautiful. so this is the pear tart crisp. and with my menu, of course, i would want a glass of wine. i have a good merlot here from california. as long as there is wine in my glass, i am happy. don't be afraid to put your own
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