
In good news, I've got a full day to prep and a few kitchen's worth of utensils and appliances at my disposal. I'm looking for your best recipe, the one that you would use to get out of Dutch, get into heaven or get someone out of their apron. What's your go-to recipe?
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While it lacks refinement other than being able to invoke the name of Thomas Keller, the recipe (easy Google find) for his Ad Hoc fried chicken is dynamite. A day is good since you have to brine the bird. It's pretty special stuff and does impress.
Cheese gougeres are super easy and still impressive for a bread/roll component...and if you have a piping bag you can whip up something like salmon mousse and take them over the top by filling them, but they are good on their own.
One course I did for our Christmas Eve dinner was the crab trofie pasta dish from the Bluestem Cookbook. Not difficult other than keeping an eye on the cream as you reduce it, and trofie can be found at Bella Napoli. HUGE winner of a dish. A monster.
Go to epicurious.com, search Cioppino then sort by ratings. The top 2 rock. Whole been tenderloin with a port sauce - do the same sort of search on epicurious and there's a few top contenders.