Zannah Noe « (y)our food choices™

Sometimes, what might seem like a brilliant blog idea can lose momentum and fade away if we don’t just sit down and write it. Looking through many photos of our cooking we’re amazed at how many missed opportunities have gotten away from us – great ideas unwritten and unpublished. So to make amends we’re finally getting around to writing and publishing a blog that we started several months ago. We figure since the guy that predicted the rapture was wrong–twice, we have time to prepare for the next BIG party.

Back in May, the day before the “first” rapture was supposed to happen, Jason was in our kitchen making a big batch of grilled cheese sandwiches for an Artist Opening at Zannah Noe‘s Velcrow Studio. Making the sandwiches took hours, and as the time went by Jason thought about the type of food one would serve at a rapture party. We’re Gleeks (we’ve seen all the Glee episodes multiple times) and it seemed obvious to Jason that Grilled Cheesus would not only be the ultimate rapture food, but it would coincide with the season finale of Glee–assuming we were all still here. Alas, the season ended, the world didn’t, summer rolled over us like a truck and here we are, approaching Halloween, and this darned grilled cheese post is just now seeing the light of day.

All the fixings for the ultimate grilled cheese.

So now we’re in our kitchen prepping more sandwiches again, for Zannah Noe’s Open Studio on Saturday, October 29, TODAY! We will be at her studio with our panini maker, bread, and lots of cheese. The Ultimate Grilled Cheese is a Ruth Reichl recipe that we fell in love with after seeing it on the PBS holiday special, A Moveable Feast, which featured several cooking show hosts preparing their favorite holiday food. Ruth’s grilled cheese sandwiches are wonderful and adaptable to any, and all, cheese. The point is to experiment.

With All Hallows Eve only a couple days away, and the holidays fast approaching, if you need a quick and easy appetizer that everyone will love, try the ultimate grilled cheese sandwich. They are so good that if the rapture does happen these sandwiches will be your ticket to Heaven.

The Ultimate Grilled Cheese

1/3 pound Swiss cheese, shredded
1/3 pound Irish cheddar cheese, shredded
1/3 pound mozzarella cheese, shredded
2 tablespoons onion, finely chopped
1 shallot, finely chopped
1 garlic clove, finely chopped
freshly ground pepper
6-8 slices No-Knead bread or good quality bread

Mix the shredded cheeses with the onion, shallot, garlic, and ground pepper. Place between two slices of bread using a panini maker to grill the sandwiches, or butter both sides of the sandwich and lightly grill in a skillet over medium low heat.

Sweet Inspirations
Fruit infusions: bubbly, baking & chocolate

Tired of the same sparkling wine, chocolates, and roses for Valentine’s Day? Come to (y)our food choices first cooking demonstration just in time for Cupid’s big day, where we’ll show you how to turn inexpensive bubbly into a sophisticated cocktail, make tasty scones in a variety of flavors, and infuse the flavors of fruit and spice into a quick and simple chocolate mousse that can be served even to your vegan friends. All with just a simple spicy fruit juice reduction.

We’ll demonstrate how to reduce the juice, bake the scones, and make the fabulous mousse, all while sipping on a sparkling cocktail. You’ll be able to taste three different scone varieties and three different chocolate mousses, along with a glass or two of fruit-infused bubbly. Move over mimosa! After you try our fruit reductions you’ll be asking your favorite brunch spot to pass on the OJ and bring on the syrup.

Our cooking tutorial will be held on Saturday, February, 12, 2011 from noon to 2:30 pm at Zannah Noe’s studio, 900 Tennessee Street #21 @20th St. in the Dogpatch district of San Francisco. Cost is $45 and includes detailed recipes for everything we prepare and serve.

Purchase your tickets at our Eventbrite page.

Be sure to hurry, as space is limited!