Hello chefs of Covid Cafe. Thank you for your recent submissions, which we'll get to just as soon as we let Rob redeem himself...
Rob writes: after the epic fail, I was determined to eek out a decent key lime
pie. It’s just a matter of respect. When you fail, you get back on the
horse and up your game.
Redemption Key Lime Pie is the result, made using the correct recipe, courtesy of Shaw's Crab House in Chicago.
Who would ever think 3 1/4 cups of citrus could possibly make a
pie curd? After my research I
figured that I now had the right proportions in the new recipe and proceeded with
purpose.
Pie crust--check
Right sized bowl on the pan of water--check
A promising result before chilling four hours--check
And, may I say, five hours of chilling later, food porn on the
plate
Wayne’s response, “It was good, but not your best.” I think
he’s angling for additional test pies to consume until we achieve perfection!
(My response: your boyfriend is heartless and doesn't deserve any more pie.)
(My response: your boyfriend is heartless and doesn't deserve any more pie.)
SHAW’S CRAB HOUSE KEY LIME PIE
One 9-inch pie
Preparation time: 30 minutes
Cooking time: 20 minutes
Chilling time: 4 hours
Graham cracker pie crust:
2 cups graham crackers crumbs
1/4 cup sugar
1/4 cup ground almonds
6 tablespoons melted unsalted butter
Filling:
Grated rind of 4 limes, about 1 teaspoon
Juice of 4 limes, about 9 tablespoons (if Kkey limes are used, more than four limes may be needed.
If Persian limes are used, three may be sufficient.)
3 whole eggs
3 egg yolks
3/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons sugar
1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter
1. Heat oven to 350 degrees. For crust, combine ingredients in
9-inch pie pan. Press over bottom and up sides of pan. Bake until crisp, about
8 to 10 minutes. Let cool on wire rack.
2. For filling, mix lime rind, lime juice, whole eggs, and egg
yolks in top of double boiler. Stir in sugar. Cook over a simmering water until
eggs thicken like hollandaise sauce, about 8 to 10 minutes. Do not boil. Remove
from heat. Add butter and stir until melted.
3. Pour mixture in the pie shell. Let it come to room
temperature, then refrigerate for 4 hours.
Row 7
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Breaking cukes out of the banal, this experimental green slicer explores the bold and complex flavors long forgotten in cucumbers. 58 days to maturity.
Poetry
American Smooth
By Rita Dove
We
were dancing—it must have
been
a foxtrot or a waltz,
something
romantic but
requiring
restraint,
rise
and fall, precise
execution
as we moved
into
the next song without
stopping,
two chests heaving
above
a seven-league
stride—such
perfect agony,
one
learns to smile through,
ecstatic
mimicry
being
the sine qua non
of
American Smooth.
And
because I was distracted
by
the effort of
keeping
my frame
(the
leftward lean, head turned
just
enough to gaze out
past
your ear and always
smiling,
smiling),
I
didn’t notice
how
still you’d become until
we
had done it
(for
two measures?
four?)—achieved
flight,
that
swift and serene
magnificence,
before
the earth
remembered
who we were
and
brought us down.
First nasturtium
Bob Marley
Redemption Song
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