When you go to a wedding, there are all these tasty appetizers you wonder about. “Hmmm, how did they make that?”
“That tasted awesome, I wonder what was in it.”
Unless the wait person is tremendously savvy, they are clueless as to the ingredients and cooking instructions. So, if you want to recreate the dish, you’re on your own. Trust your instincts.
Eight or nine years ago, one of my coworkers got married. It was a cool setting, a lush green outdoor patio in a time of the year in Pennsylvania when everything looks good. My wife and I were sitting with friends as the appetizer dishes circulated. One stood out. The core was a green grape. Around it was blue cheese and crushed pistachios.
Sounds pretty simple to recreate, and it actually is. This is a great dish to impress your family with, or to share when you have guests over. It doesn’t take a lot of time, but it is messy.
Get a bunch of green grapes. Buy crumbled blue cheese. Purchase pistachios already crushed, or you get them shelled and whole and pound them with a mallet yourself if you need to get some aggression out.
Roll each grape in the crumbled blue cheese, lightly tamping the cheese around it, so it adheres to the skin of the grape. You may need to lightly warm the blue cheese. Then roll it
through the pistachios. You are done.
Eat a few, see how the taste. If they need some additional work, figure it out, and sample a few
more. They taste great and people are impressed with your skill when you roll them out for Super Bowl parties.
“Hey, how’d you make these?”
“Aw, it took several hours. I was working in the kitchen like a mad man.”
Liar.
But they don’t need to know.
“That tasted awesome, I wonder what was in it.”
Unless the wait person is tremendously savvy, they are clueless as to the ingredients and cooking instructions. So, if you want to recreate the dish, you’re on your own. Trust your instincts.
Eight or nine years ago, one of my coworkers got married. It was a cool setting, a lush green outdoor patio in a time of the year in Pennsylvania when everything looks good. My wife and I were sitting with friends as the appetizer dishes circulated. One stood out. The core was a green grape. Around it was blue cheese and crushed pistachios.
Sounds pretty simple to recreate, and it actually is. This is a great dish to impress your family with, or to share when you have guests over. It doesn’t take a lot of time, but it is messy.
Get a bunch of green grapes. Buy crumbled blue cheese. Purchase pistachios already crushed, or you get them shelled and whole and pound them with a mallet yourself if you need to get some aggression out.
Roll each grape in the crumbled blue cheese, lightly tamping the cheese around it, so it adheres to the skin of the grape. You may need to lightly warm the blue cheese. Then roll it
through the pistachios. You are done.
Eat a few, see how the taste. If they need some additional work, figure it out, and sample a few
more. They taste great and people are impressed with your skill when you roll them out for Super Bowl parties.
“Hey, how’d you make these?”
“Aw, it took several hours. I was working in the kitchen like a mad man.”
Liar.
But they don’t need to know.
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