Faith Middleton Food Schmooze

Dry-brining makes a comeback this Thanksgiving. Find out why cooks—home cooks and the pros—are dry-brining their birds this year. It’s easy, and mostly hands-off. For tips, Chris Prosperi joins us via phone from beautiful Florida, where he’s cooking for thousands during Epcot’s International Food & Wine Festival. Also, novelist-turned-cookbook author (and Connecticut local!) Jane Green shares her new book with us, Good Taste.  Her recipes are all about good food, simply prepared for family and friends. The more the merrier. Our favorites from her book : Curried Parsnip and Apple Soup, to start off the feast, and two sweet, beautiful ways to end it: Flourless Chocolate Chestnut Truffle Torte and a showstopping Pumpkin Gingerbread Trifle. Aired: November 10, 2016 Photo: Tom McGovern CONTRIBUTORS AND GUESTS: • Chris Prosperi — chef/owner, Métro Bis in Simsbury, Conn. • Alex Province — wine expert • Jane Green — aut

Charlotte Druckman, the author of Stir, Sizzle, Bake joins The Food Schmooze® party with recipes for your cast-iron skillet (LOVE!). We’ll talk to Charlotte about her cheesy Colombian-style arepas, Frito-Crusted Cornbread, Carrot-Currant Crostata (what a combo!), and her Wholesome Apple-Quince Pie. We loved the idea of a skillet pie for Thanksgiving, or any fall gathering. Plus we’ll tell you how to pick the fastest line at the grocery checkout, thanks to a New York Times article, and share our own recipe ideas for the easiest ratatouille and an apple butter you can make in the slow cooker. It’s the perfect thing to make-ahead, freeze, and pull out for holiday appetizers or to give as gifts. There's a little bit of everything to bridge the seasons and get a jump on holiday cooking and homemade gifts. Aired: September 15, 2016 and October 26, 2017 CONTRIBUTORS AND GUESTS: • Chris Prosperi — chef/owner, Métro Bis in Simsbury, Conn. • Alex Province &mda

All aboard! Colin Caplan takes Faith and The Food Schmooze® gang on a cocktail crawl through the streets of New Haven on The Elm City Party Bike. Revelers (and peddlers) stop at Olea and BAR for appetizers, cocktails, pizza, and mico-brewed beer. It was the MOST fun! We toast our ride with an under-$20 sparkler that’s as delicious as Prosecco, and recommend a bottle (or two) for your holiday gatherings.  After the ride, we head back in the studio to talk root vegetables and fall roasts. THIS is how you kickoff autumn, people!Support the show: https://foodschmooze.org/donate/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Oh, we love Gina Homolka for what she does. Known for her Skinnytaste blog and now bestselling cookbooks, Gina has found a way to take your all-time favorite meals and reimagine them as healthy, low-calorie recipes that you’ll want to make over and over again. In fact, you’ll have to because there WILL be requests. Family-friendly, easy to make, and economical, too, the recipes in Skinnytaste Fast and Slow come together in about 30 minutes (or less) or cook low and slow in your slow cooker while you’re at work. Gina’s recipes may be “skinny-ified” but they’re still flavor-packed, so you won’t feel deprived.  We’re so excited about the recipes in this book that we’re offering it up as a thank you gift when you support The Faith Middleton Food Schmooze® during our fund drive. Photo: ©2016 by Helene Dujardin Aired: February 9, 2017 CONTRIBUTORS AND GUESTS:• Chris Prosperi — chef/owner, Mé

He’s back! Food Schmooze® favorite Jacques Pépin returns—this time with granddaughter, Shorey, to share recipes from his new cookbook, A Grandfather’s Lessons. Garlicky roast chicken, sausage and potatoes en papillote (so easy!), and homemade chocolate candies. Plus, Mark Raymond shares a rich $10 red wine made with Carménère grapes. Faith knows exactly what she wants to pair with it: a creamy mushroom sauce on pasta.Support the show: https://foodschmooze.org/donate/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

More genius cooking tips, plus how to impress your guests with a whole fish on the grill. We’re coming to you from Hartford HeathCare’s Bone & Joint Institute at Hartford Hospital—with tips from Dr. Cortland Lewis about eating for optimum bone and joint health. Alex Province shares his latest wine discovery, Chateau Vieux Poirier, an organic red from Bordeaux priced at a sweet spot.Support the show: https://foodschmooze.org/donate/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Faith shares her recipe for Provençal roast tomatoes with a buttery breadcrumb crust. It’s her favorite thing to make right now. Plus, a simple tip for how to get the best sear on a grilled or pan-fried steak, our latest red wine discovery, and fun recipes for roasted nuts, pulled pork, and shiny-red candy apples from the new book, Fair Foods.Support the show: https://foodschmooze.org/donate/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week, we make a fresh no-cook pasta sauce and sip a local chardonnay. Plus, omelet expert John E. Finn joins the party with recipes for savory—and sweet—omelets. That’s right: Chocolate Soufflé Omelet. You’ve got to try it.  Support the show: https://foodschmooze.org/donate/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We’re holding on to summer with a celebration of everything that’s abundant in the market right now. We’ve got summer salad recipe ideas for your next party. Think: watermelon and shaved vegetables. Plus, rosé sangria (two ways!), and cookbook author and teacher Domenica Marchetti preserves fruit and vegetables the real Italian way. You can too. Domenica also shares a burger recipe she tops with an onion jam you’ll want to eat by the spoonful. Also this week, we sip a dry $9 rosé from the Bordeaux region that we say begs for experimentation. Make it a spritzer, add a little blood orange liqueur to it, make it into ice cubes. The possibilities are endless.Support the show: https://foodschmooze.org/donate/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

If you scream for ice cream, come and belt it out with us on the next edition of The Faith Middleton Food Schmooze®. It’s a triple scoop of fun: The gang talks to Tony Yurgaitis, co-founder of Arethusa Farm & Dairy (now in New Haven!); Faith makes a boozy chocolate milkshake; and Mark Scarbrough, co-author of the new cookbook, A la Mode, joins the party with ice cream/dessert pairing ideas (and recipes!). We talk favorite ice cream shops and hipster ice cream flavors (who wouldn’t want a lick of Green Tea-Black Sesame, Elvis’s Fat Years, and Brown Butter ice cream?). Finally, we all love that classic Good Humor ice cream sandwich, but that doesn’t stop us from dreaming up other ways to hold slabs of ice cream. Faith uses grilled corn bread. This is NOT a Food Schmooze® for the lactose-intolerant. But, there will be bourbon! Faith and Chris Prosperi also cook up a shrimp salad roll that rivals the best lobster rolls in CT (and beyond). Aired August 24, 2017 and August 11, 20

You know Amanda Glover from her shiny Airstream bakery. This week, she joins us in the studio with a local wine and the Chocolate Merlot Cake from her book, Sweetie Bake Your Day. Author, cooking teacher, and writer Samin Nosrat shares recipes and techniques from her book, Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat. It's guaranteed to make you a better cook. Plus, Faith shares an idea for ale and chocolate ice cream floats and Chris Prosperi makes the case for resting a steak overnight.Support the show: https://foodschmooze.org/donate/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

National Rum Day is August 16. We’re celebrating with Bailey Pryor of The Real McCoy spirits company in Connecticut. He’s invented a cocktail called “Faith in Tiki” and it’s delicious. Plus, more corn on the cob tips (because you can’t have too many), an affordable white wine from Italy, and the wildly entertaining and very talented Chef Rossi. A play based on her memoir The Raging Skillet is at TheaterWorks in Hartford right now. Get tickets while you can.Support the show: https://foodschmooze.org/donate/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Road trip! Faith and the gang bring you the show from picturesque White Gate Farm in East Lyme, CT. Owner Pauline Lord shares the farm’s recipes for Zucchini and Carrot Ribbon Tart, Kale and Orange Cupcakes, Fennel Vichyssoise, and Chocolate-Zucchini Cupcakes. Plus, a fresh vintage of Clos des Lumieres’s rosé to pair with anything you might buy at a farm stand, and ideas for easy summer granitas.Support the show: https://foodschmooze.org/donate/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week, we talk about all the good stuff we’re throwing into our picnic baskets (fried chicken, salads, pie etc.), plus, ideas for chilled strawberry soup, frosty strawberry daiquiris, and a dreamy strawberries and whipped cream cake (use a boxed cake mix, if you like!). We also discuss the joy of sharing a really good bottle of wine with friends—even over burgers.Support the show: https://foodschmooze.org/donate/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Faith’s got a tip that makes shucking corn on the cob faster and easier. Plus, recipe ideas for corn, our favorite corn stands, and Tess Masters (a.k.a. Blender Girl), joins the party with recipes for Avocado Daiquiris, Pineapple Cucumber Gazpacho, and Minty Pea Shooters.    Support the show: https://foodschmooze.org/donate/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week, we invent a Shrimp Cocktail Bloody Mary with two local mixes, sip on a rosé and a white wine from France, and share family recipes from Add a Pinch blogger Robyn Stone’s new cookbook. Think: Southern classics lightened up—summery Citrus Shrimp, Lemon Meringue Pie with Mile-High Meringue, and a divine Georgia Peach Crisp. Plus, the gang gives shout-outs to locals making good food (and handy kitchen gadgets). We tell you where to eat in Mystic (ah, the views right now!), and Faith describes the best baba ganoush on the East Coast.Support the show: https://foodschmooze.org/donate/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

How to cook dinner’s unsung hero—pork—two ways: grilled and sear-roasted. Plus simple sauces that make it better. Think: peach preserves cooked in wine and butter, classic barbecue, and grilled pineapple or apple slices and brown sugar. Finally, award-winning photographer Dan Goldberg shares recipes for lobster rolls, black bean burgers, and Mojito Cake with Rum-Infused Whipped Cream from his beautiful new book, Cuba.Support the show: https://foodschmooze.org/donate/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Get ready for 4th of July with ideas for stuffed burgers, hot dogs, shrimp rolls, lobster rolls, and Faith’s BLT-inspired potato salad. Plus, we’re sharing two wines (a rosé and a chardonnay) that go with anything you might serve at a holiday barbecue. They’re great for sipping while watching fireworks, too.Support the show: https://foodschmooze.org/donate/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Have you been to the new restaurant INDIA in West Hartford yet? Chef and owner Prasad Chirnomula joins the party with dishes from his new hot spot. Plus street food favorites and an $11 rosé we're crazy about. Faith also shares a Klondike® Bar hack and a tip for zero-calorie strawberry flavored water. Support the show: https://foodschmooze.org/donate/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Grill master Jamie Purviance joins the party with recipes and grilling tips for your Father’s Day cookout: Beer Can Chicken, Beef Tenderloin with Seared Mushrooms, and a Pineapple Upside-Down Cake cooked on the grill. Plus, two notable red wines to try and how to shuck oysters like a pro. John Bertino, chief oyster shucker at the Oyster Club in Mystic, CT, shares some laughs and explains the art of oyster shucking.Support the show: https://foodschmooze.org/donate/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.