Sauce: Not red velvet but red carpet 'cakes
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My e-mail brings two recipes featuring the perfect marriage of chocolate and raspberries.
One is from a Duncan Hines competition and the other comes from the Pittsburgh Job Corps Center, whose culinary arts team took second place last month in an Iron Chef "Eat Right, Cook Light" competition in Atlantic City, N.J.
The team competed in two rounds that allowed three hours of prep and two hours of cooking and plating time. In each they were allotted some ingredients and given $100 to $150 to buy the rest for entrees, salads, soups, starches, vegetables and desserts. The last included Chocolate Ricotta Mousse, garnished with raspberries, with the calories skimmed a bit by using light ricotta cheese. Members of the team were Iron Chef Richard Hornaman of Erie, Sous Chef Richard Watkins of Sheridan, Garde Manger Elizabeth Schwartz of Baldwin Borough and assistants Jordan Scott-Gregory of Bellevue and Brittany Koehler of York.
For the cake, no calorie appears to have been spared in a recipe by Katie Rousonelos of Madison, Wis., who won the Duncan Hines Red Carpet Cupcake Challenge. Her prize is a trip for two to Los Angeles for Sunday's Primetime Emmy Awards, where she has two seats in the Fans in the Stands along the red carpet. Tomorrow night, her cupcakes will be sampled by nominees and guests at the Performers Nominees Reception. Her recipe won after being selected as one of 10 finalists in online voting and then scoring with a panel of culinary judges.
Raspberries are in season and can be picked in the region. However, check with your farm before you go. The crop is early this year.
Pick this: the fifth Savor Pittsburgh: A Celebration of Cuisine, benefiting the American Respiratory Alliance of Western Pennsylvania, begins at 6:30 p.m. next Thursday, Sept. 2, at the SouthSide Works.
Have a cocktail or two and dine on the works of some of the city's finest chefs and restaurants under white canopies. Place bids at two auctions, dance to No Bad JuJu, and vote for best culinary creations. Sponsored by Mosaic Consulting and presented by the SouthSide Works and McCormick & Schmick's Seafood Restaurant.
First Published August 26, 2010 12:00 am
