Lemon Dill Sauce

Because we are featuring More Than Gourmet products along with a special sale for a short period of time we thought we would adapt another of their wonderful recipes using Jus de Poulet Gold or in plain old English chicken demi glace. (a thick rich chicken based sauce)

This is an easy sauce to prepare with just a few ingredients but oh so delicious over grilled chicken or vegetables. More Than Gourmet describes it as a smooth, luscious sauce with the tang of lemon and fresh herbal notes of dill.

Lemon Dill Sauce
Serves: 4

Ingredients:

1.5 oz Jus de Poulet Gold by More Than Gourmet
3/4 cup water
1/4 cup sour cream
2 tbs fresh lemon juice
1 tbs fresh dill, chopped
salt and pepper to taste.

Instructions:

1. Bring water to boil in a medium saucepan over a medium low heat. Add the Jus de Poulet and whisk until dissolved.

2. Whisk in the remaining ingredients until the sauce begins to simmer. Adjust the flavor with salt and pepper and serve.

TIPS: This sauce will also go well with grilled fish such as salmon, halibut or swordfish.

Best Barbecue Sauce

Our friends at More Than Gourmet came up with delicious recipe using their More Than Gourmet Demi-Glace Gold. A premier reduction sauce made from the bones of veal and beef, water, seasonings, and wine.

In case you are not familiar with the term reduction it is a process of roasting and cooking of bones and other ingredients usually for 24 hours. They like to cook their sauces in the French classic method. One taste and you can tell the difference, besides when you read the ingredients you know the quality is in the sauce.

Because we sell the entire More Than Gourmet product line of demi glace and stock on our website www.clubsauce.com we asked if we could use or adapt some of their recipes using their products.

Well viola!

Here is a recipe they call Best Barbecue Sauce that we are suggesting you try as the grilling season gets underway. As always with many recipes follow the ingredients and the steps to create the sauce. Once it is complete it is easy to adjust with a touch more heat like cayenne pepper or a little sweeter with a pinch more sugar. These are easy changes to fit your own palate. Read more

Demi Glace

We love FREE! So the most recent e-mail newsletter from Club Sauce caught our attention and has some pretty interesting tidbits that we would like to share with you. Club Sauce is a major supporter of this blog and although we are not here to sell but to impart information about sauces, saucing, recipes and such we thought this email was worth sharing with you.

The recipe is timely for spring and the holidays as is the free demi glace offer. We see many questions on the internet about demi glace like what is it, how do you use it or its too time consuming to make at home. So maybe we have found the solution or at least an inexpensive way to try a ready-made product offered by Club Sauce

Below is their recent newsletter with appropriate links to the products and the website that may have the answers you are looking for. Check it out and let us know what you think.
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Demi Glace – FREE
New Products – Outrageously Good
Our Welcoming Spring Recipe

Demi Glace – FREE

Create delicious rich-tasting sauces at home with easy-to-use
More Than Gourmet Demi Glace. Experience for yourself
what many top restaurateurs, caterers, personal chefs and
home cooks consider the best sauce ingredient on the market
today. (See our professional chefs and home cook testimonials)

We will include one FREE 1.5 oz container of More Than
Gourmet Demi Glace and recipe with your order when the
subtotal exceeds $20 or more. No coupons or codes to enter.
We will automatically include it with your order.

This special offer expires midnight Sunday March 14, 2010.

Order now! Enjoy this delicious treat with a spring celebration meal.
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New Products – Outrageously Good

We are excited to offer two new chocolate sauces from our good
Friends at IzzyBelle Chocolate. They are truly the best Colorado
artisinal producers of outrageously good chocolate sauces.

Chilli cinnamon chocolate sauce - You can experience the subtle heat
of chili and cinnamon blended into a dark creamy chocolate sauce
for a mouth dazzling treat. Just let your imagination run wild with this one.

Raspberry Chocolate Sauce – Tempt your taste buds with the divine
flavor of raspberries in a smooth rich-tasting chocolate sauce.
Just close your eyes for a second and think of all the great treats
you can create with this chocolate sauce.

Order Now! You’ll find no better, we are convinced.
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Our Welcoming Spring Recipe

We welcome the beginning of spring with a sweet/tart sauce that is
perfect for a variety of lamb cuts roasted, grilled or in the pan.

Pomegranate Port Wine Fig Sauce – Check it out. You’ll be glad you did.

Happy Passover, Happy Easter and happy spring!

Jules Silver and the Club Sauce team.

The Real Secret to French Cooking

Like so many others I was so inspired by the movie Julia and Julia to start doing some gourmet cooking in my own little kitchen… and then I hit a stumbling block.  No it wasn’t sticker shock for Julia Child’s Mastering The Art of French Cooking (two volume set), nor the daunting task of even lifting the enormous book.   It was the meticulous detail and difficulty of the recipes.. let’s face it, who has that kind of time?

But what I learned is that the real secret to gourmet cooking is all in the sauce.  So here is some basic information on sauces… I’ll start with Wine Sauces.

What I found most amazing in my research is that Sauces have been used since the middle ages- who knew! But of course French chef’s have upped the bar on sauces almost to the point of high art — just treat yourself to any fine dining at a French restaurant and you will know this is true.

So what goes into making a great sauce? The famous French Chef, Aguste Escoffier, tells us that the chef who wants to create a memorable sauce must first prepare a mirepoix (Wikepedia has a great but lengthy definition) and roast beef or veal bones to begin developing a stock… then one must slowly reduce the stock and add a slowly browned roux to create a deep brown color and rich flavor with a smooth and velvety consistency.  This will create a “foundation sauce” from which many other sauces can be made.

Slow being the operative word in the whole process … again I ask, who has this kind of time?  Let’s face it, this is a time intensive process that I certainly don’t have the patience required to complete it.  Never fear! More Than Gourmet has taken care of the time intensive work for us and has created both a Red Wine Sauce as well as a White Wine Sauce which reduces what would have taken hours to mere minutes without sacrificing flavor, consistency or eye appeal!

Using classical methods and only the finest ingredients,these sauces are consistently reliable, dependable, affordable and most importantly delicious! They have found a permanent home in my pantry and I know you also will find them so easy to keep on hand that all your meals will be gourmet!

Bon Appetite!

Sherea

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