Culinary Class Projects

Last week as I had mentioned I taught a Gourmet Pizza Class. In the class we made a Pesto Pizza (shown above) and a BBQ Chicken Pizza (shown below) in addition to a Margarita Flatbread Pizza which I don't have the photo of.



However, tonight I was working on my Asian Grilled Tuna recipe that I posted last week and served it with an Asian Cole Slaw on Flatbread. Although my photo didn't turn out great the meal was fantastic. The fishmonger sliced the tuna much thinner than I would have liked. When my phone rang and I went to answer it, in that one minute, my tuna went from rare to medium. I prefer it to be nice and pink inside -medium/rare. Not a problem though it was still moist and delicious.

I tweeked the recipe just how I like it. Now it's ready for my class with a few additions to the menu.

I was going to post the photo but as I mentioned it didn't turn out so great. I have to say, I really need to take some food photograpy classes. That's definitely not my specialty.

Chipotle Molasses BBQ Sauce

Yesterday I taught a Gourmet Pizza Class and everyone had a great time. One of the pizza's that we made was a BBQ Chicken Pizza. Of all the BBQ sauces out there that I could have used I found that Steven Raichlen's Chipotle Molasses BBQ Sauce was incredible on this pizza.

After preparing it the students couldn't believe how sensational it tasted. I can tell you that the flavor of this sauce is wonderful. As Steven Raichlen describes it, it's a suave smoky barbecue sauce spiked with sambuca and stung with chipotle chilies.

I know some of you may be thinking oh no, not chipotle's they're too hot! But, actually it wasn't spicy or hot at all, but rather smooth tasting and positively wonderful on the pizza.

In fact, after eating the pizza for lunch I decided to make some salmon for dinner last night. With some of the leftover BBQ sauce I BBQ'd my salmon and just before it was done I slathered some of the Chipotle Molasses BBQ Sauce on top. It tasted outstanding and of course with the little leftovers that I had, I just had it cold for lunch. I actually liked it even better cold the next day.

So if you're wondering how to find Steven Raichlin's Chipotle Molasses BBQ Sauce you can get it at SurLaTable or google it. It was well worth the purchase.