These Buffalo Cauliflower Bites from Marcia Selden Catering Are 🔥🔥🔥🔥 (Recipe)

It’s just cauliflower, so you can have like 1,000,000 of these bites . . .

Cauliflower is quickly becoming this year’s Brussels sprouts . . . and here we are with another great use for them: Buffalo Cauliflower from Marcia Selden Catering!  Serve ’em up as an app, at your next party, or switch it out with classic chicken wings. Happy noming! 

Ingredients for Buffalo Cauliflower Bites

• 1 C Whole Wheat Flour
• 1 C Water
• 1 t Garlic Powder
• 1 t Kosher Salt
• 1 head Cauliflower, cut into florets
• 1 C Franks Red Hot Sauce
• 1 stick Salted Butter, melted
• Handful Chopped Parsley

Perk Up Dessert with this Chocolate Espresso Shortbread + Affogato Recipe

 

Find out how to make this amazing dish inside. Photo courtesy of Robin Selden.

We are fans of infusing things into our dessert, especially when caffeine and liquor is involved. For this month’s recipe from Marcia Selden Catering, we’re excited to share a dessert that will warm you up and get you going: Chocolate Espresso Shortbread with Affogato. What other recipe do you know that uses some Sambuca and 12 shots of espresso? Hell yes! Check out the recipe here:

Turkey Ain’t Just for Thanksgiving: Beer-Brined Turkey and Onion Gravy with Bacon Recipe

 

Your love of turkey doesn’t have to go away now that Thanksgiving’s done! Photo provided by Marcia Selden Catering.

We know you’re probably still pulling out of your tryptophan coma, but good food shouldn’t stop anybody . . . that’s why we’re sharing a recipe for Beer-brined Turkey and Onion Gravy with Bacon from our friends at Marcia Selden Catering. And, although the recipe calls for six 12 ounce bottles of dark stouts/porters/ales, we think you should have lots more ready to go so that you can brine yourself to a buzz as you prepare this dish. This is a great and hearty meal for those cold winter days, for those times when you have friends over for football or hockey, or just because you need another dose of turkey . . . and bacon.

Amazing Any Way You Slice It: Kiwi Carpaccio Salad Recipe from Marcia Selden Catering

Kiwi Carpaccio Salad from Marcia Selden Catering with photo courtsey of Robin Selden

Pardon us for a sec: our minds are kinda blown. That’s because we’re sharing a recipe from Marcia Selden Catering that uses kiwi and other fresh summer fruits to make an amazing carpaccio. Yes, what you normally see as beef carpaccio or even thinly sliced fish is now taking its place with a fruit version. 

Serve up this easy to make dish as an appetizer, a snack, or a salad. Either way, this is a great dish to dive into because the weather is still crazy hot and demands some serious refreshment.

Kiwi Carpaccio Salad with White Balsamic Vinaigrette

Recipe: “Juan in a Million” Mexican Lasagna for Super Bowl Sunday!

You’re Juan in a Million, yeah that’s what you are-r. You’re Juan in a Million babe, you’re a shooting star-r. Photo from Robin Selden. (Bonus points if anyone knows the song!)

Sure, we know that pizza and wings are the expected food when everyone comes together to watch football, but we have a feeling that you’ll have room for one more dish. Yup, yup: you’ll want to make this Juan in a Million Mexican Lasagna, put together by the awesome people at Marcia Selden Catering. Here’s the recipe:

Baked Apple Brie with Caramelized Onion and Bacon Recipe from Balducci’s

Oh dear God, look at that. Pic from Balducci’s.

Balducci’s is a great spot to check out if you’re looking to put together your holiday meal! They not only have some great, fresh, and hard-to-find ingredients, but they also have a great selection of prepared apps like Beef Short Rib and Roquefort Hand Pie, Balducci’s Osetra Caviar, D’Artagnan Foie Gras, and Maison de la Truffle Cheese. And, if you don’t like coming to the party empty handed, they have different gift baskets available like their Market Basket that is perfect for snacking, the Office Fiesta to elevate the mood at work, and their Celebration basket full of awesome goodies.

Warm up with this wild mushroom soup with sherry recipe from Marcia Selden Catering

Winter won’t suck this year with this recipe! Photo courtesy of Robin Selden.

Now that it’s “I can see my breath as I breathe” kind of weather, it’s only natural to begin to think of warm, comforting dishes to make. Well, it doesn’t get much warmer or more comforting than a beautiful bowl of soup. And, that’s exactly what we have to share with you today from Marcia Selden Catering: a rich, silky, hot and even low-fat Wild Mushroom Soup with Sherry. Our friends at Marcia Selden also say that you can freeze the base for easy reheating.

Here’s how to make it:

Killer Griller: Double Onion Bacon Burger Recipe from Marcia Selden Catering

Memorial Day is right around the corner and you know what that means:  time to fire up the BBQ!  Yes, it’s the official start of grilling time, so we asked Marcia Selden Catering if they could come up with a recipe for a killer burger to make all summer (or year depending on how heavy a carnivore you are) long.  Well, here’s what they shared with us:  The Double Onion Bacon Burger!  Check out this easy recipe from the good folks at Marcia Selden Catering:

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We love burgers, and so do our clients! They can be dressed up, dressed down, and served for any occasion at (almost) any time of the day. This recipe has to be one of our all-time favorites, and we’re happy to share it with you. These burgers also make great sliders.

Quinoa Salad with Spring Veggies Recipe from Liz Rueven of Kosher Like Me

Earlier this week we shared an interview with Liz Rueven, owner and editor of Kosher Like Me and co-author of the brand new e-book, 4 Bloggers Dish:  Passover; Modern Twists on Traditional Flavors.  Hopefully you’ve had a chance to check out her site (if you aren’t already following it), and get the cookbook.  Just a quick refresher course:  4 Bloggers Dish:  Passover is a cookbook authored by Liz Rueven of Kosher Like Me, Whitney Fisch of Jewhungry, Sarah Lasry of The Patchke Princess, and Amy Kritzer of What Jew Wanna Eat.  All the recipes provide creative, modern twists on Passover classics, helping you to change things up.

Liz was kind enough to share one of the recipes from the book with us, so we thought that we needed to help spread the wealth.  This dish features one of our favorite ingredients:  quinoa.  This highly-revered ancient Incan superfood is low in calories compared to other options, but packs a whopping punch when it comes to protein.  Basically, use it in place of things such as bulgur wheat, couscous, and rice to get yourself going.

Quinoa Salad with Spring Vegetables and Buttermilk Dressing

What’s Up Doc? Carrot Recipe Contest at Westport Farmer’s Market

Caucus carota.

Oh, that just sounds dirty.  Well, kinda dirty…if you consider digging into the ground and popping up carrots.  Yes, caucus carota, the carrot, is a thing of beauty to many and the root (hahah punny) of scorn for others.  But, we’re sharing this post with the carrot lovers of the world, so carotaphobiacs may run away in fear.

Okay, still with us?  Cool.  Maybe you love carrots so much that you can think of a million dishes to make with them:  carrot cakes, carrot muffins, carrot bread, carrot bread pudding, fried carrots, deep-fried carrots, grilled carrots, boiled carrots, honey boiled carrots, pickled carrots, carrot stew, or maybe even a fancy carrot juice?  Well, that’s not a million, but we’re honestly out of ideas.  But, maybe you aren’t!  If so, why not enter Westport Farmers’ Market‘s Carrot Recipe Contest?  Here are all the deets for you:

• E-mail Lori Cochran-Dougall by February 19 (spots going fast)
• Get carrots from a local farm (make sure to label your dish with which farm the carrots are from)
  • Create a dish that highlights the amazing β-caroteneness of the carrot
• Bring your dish to Westport Farmers’ Market by 10:30 on 2/23
  • The contest begins at 11 am
• The awesome chefs Matt Storch from Match and Chelsea and Geoff Lazlo from LeFarm will be your judges!
  • They will announce the winners at noon!
    • Win the contest and you’ll receive a Westport Farmers’ Market tote that’s replete with yumminess (value over $100)
      • Then, make your mark on the world by having the recipe shared on the Westport Farmers’ Market site!

Westport Farmers’ Market

Carrot Recipe Contest

2/23/13 at 11 am

7 Sylvan Lane 

Westport, CT (Their winter location @ Gilbertie’s Herb Garden)