Congratulations to J.Lee, you are the winner today!
Day 22, and I’m giving away a signed copy of Banquet of Lies.
I had the idea for Banquet of Lies years and years before I wrote it, and I loved the research I did for it, as I am a very enthusiastic cook and I got to look over all kinds of recipes. One of the fun things I watched was an Antonin Carem recipe recreation by British chef Heston Blumenthal. Antonin Carem was my inspiration for the chefs in the story, and there are quite a few chefs 🙂 (And a lot of ladies of the night, too :)). I also included most of the recipes in the book on my website, if you’re interested in recreating some of them – click here.
What’s your favorite recipe, and is there a special occasion you always make it for?
I have different recipes depending on whim. LOL Most times, I do either turkey (dark meat only) and stuffing or ham for the Yuletide holidays, then ham at Easter. Lately, my favorite recipe has been a Greek lamb dish called arnipsito. I really like that one.
I love Greek food and lamb, so I’ll look that one up, J.Lee.
I don’t have a single favourite recipe – I love food too much to pick one. But i do like things that are fairly quick and easy to prepare. I really love trying different salads and of course desert. I have a fantastic fudge recipe which gets dusted off each Christmas and I spent today cutting recipes out of the free Christmas magazine from the local Woollies. I will definitely be trying out the black forest truffle one.
Ooh, would you share the fudge recipe?
Sweet potato casserole which I make for Christmas, Easter and Thanksgiving.
I have a great sweet potato spicy salad recipe, which I love. And sweet potato muffins!
After “Dark Horse” and “Dark Deeds” the first book of yours that I came across was “Banquet of Lies” and to this day is still my favorite. I love the idea that a cook has so much going on and still manages to produce such wonderful menus.
I like to dabble in the kitchen too but my family is too multi-ethnic and we don’t have a consensus for “A” favorite recipe but usually for the holidays we have roasted turkey, ham, cranberry chutney, sweet potato and corn soufflé , and that is exactly what we are having this Monday since that is the day we celebrate Christmas.
Oh, thank you for the compliment, Luzhelena! Corn souffle sounds really good!
My mom’s bbq brisket or beef enchiladas. But I almost never make them since I live alone & they feed 6-8 people or more.
It’s a problem, Carol. When I’m the only one around, I end up making cheese on crackers, LOL! As opposed to last night, when I made duck a l’orange. I just wouldn’t have done that if it was just me. I suppose the secret is reducing the proportions so we still make ourselves amazing things 🙂
My mom’s bbq brisket or beef enchiladas. But I almost never make them because I live alone & they feed 6-8 people or more.
We often make chili, using a variation of Rachael Ray’s Indian Summer Chili recipe. And this is one of favorite holiday go-tos for sharing: https://www.thespruceeats.com/chocolate-graham-toffee-bark-recipe-1807164
Oh, yum, yum, yum! Thank you for sharing!