Tea 3: Cooking and "New Starts"

Caesar Salad:

My Sister and her Husband spent yesterday making Caesar Salad in a cooking class to break in a beautiful wooden bowl he got for Valentine's Day. My Sister shared the instructions from class with me.

Ingredients:

Enough Romaine Hearts for 2 (washed , dried and torn into bites size pieces, you can leave them whole and plate on a dinner size plate to give room to cut up salad)

Dressing

juice from 1/2 lemon

3 anchovy fillets

1 egg yolk

4 cloves of garlic

1/4 cup Good Quality Olive Oil

1/2 tablespoon of Balsamic Vinegar ( I used an 18 year old vinegar)

2 tablespoons of Freshly Grated Parmesan Cheese

Fresh Ground Pepper to taste

Croutons:

2 Sour Dough Rolls (cut into 1 by 1 inch cubes)

4 cloves of garlic

1/4 cup olive oil

(place garlic and olive oil in the blender or Vita Mix and blend until combined)

(toss bread cubes in oil mixture and bake in a preheated 375 degree oven until golden brown)

Chill Two salad plates in the freezer while you assemble the dressing and the salad.

Drizzle some olive oil in the bottom of a wooden salad bowl and add the garlic cloves.

Using two forks mash the garlic into a rough paste

Add the anchovy

and continue to mash together into a fine paste and spread around the sides of the bowl to season it

Bring a small pot of water to a boil , separate the yolk from the egg and place the yolk into a large ladle and add the the lemon juice to the ladle.

Lower the ladle into the boiling pot of water barely touching the ladle to the surface of the water and continuously beat the egg and lemon mixture until it begins to thicken and warm (not scramble, it should look like a mayo consistency) Once the egg is coddled add to the wooden bowl