Archive for the Category ◊ The Left Over Queen ◊

01 Jul 2010 Baked Halibut with Yogurt Sauce
Author: petermarcus |  Category: Contests, Recipes, Royal Foodie Joust, The Left Over Queen, fish, mushrooms, sauces  | 2 Comments

Every month, Jenn, the Leftover Queen hosts the friendliest cooking contest on the web: The Royal Foodie Joust! Three ingredients are chosen, and foodies and food bloggers from around the world compete for the coveted trophies of Best Picture, Most Unique, and Best Overall dish using those three ingredients.

If you haven’t Jousted, I seriously encourage you to try. It’s a fun, low-pressure way to stretch your culinary chops and see how three ingredients can spawn amazingly different recipes each month!

This month, the ingredients were yogurt, nuts, and mushrooms. I made a baked halibut, with a greek yogurt/sour cream sauce sprinkled with crushed macadamia nuts, sitting on a bed of thinly sliced criminis and shallots.
Recipe and more pics inside

29 Sep 2009 Maple Cayenne Scallops with Granny Smith Home Fries
Author: petermarcus |  Category: Contests, Friends, The Left Over Queen  | 6 Comments

After far too long of an absence (life and summer and day-job), we are once again joining the Royal Foodie Joust, hosted by Jenn, The Leftover Queen!

The Foodie Joust is a monthly competition that has been called the Iron Chef of the foodie blogs. It’s designed for fun, not stress — there are three ingredients to be used, but there is a month to come up with ideas and enjoy what everyone comes up with. There are also three categories of prizes: Best Overall, Best Picture, and Most Original. It’s one of the kindest and friendliest competitions out there, so it is a great place for cooks of all levels and any specialty to join in!

There are prizes of aprons and coffee mugs, but my favorite prize is the duty of the winner for Best Overall: they get to choose the three ingredients for the next Joust.

This month’s Jousting ingredients are:
Apples
Maple Syrup
Cayenne Pepper

I came up with seared scallops marinaded and glazed with maple syrup, apple cider vinegar, and cayenne pepper. I wasn’t sure if cider vinegar counted as apples, so I made a side-dish of savory “home fries” made with granny smith apples, along with bacon and videlia onions.

The Joust awaits inside….

26 May 2009 Stuffed Filet with Tomato Basil Aurore
Author: petermarcus |  Category: Photography, Recipes, Royal Foodie Joust, The Left Over Queen, aurore, bacon, bechamel, beef, dinners, feta, filet, food, grill  | 4 Comments

Our last post was an entry for The Royal Foodie Joust hosted by Jenn, the Leftover Queen.

We got beaten to the punch by a croquette entry, then just when I figured maybe our stuffed croquettes were maybe a bit more of an arancini, another entry featured that. So, great minds think alike, and I figured I’d regroup.

For Memorial Day weekend here in the States, there were wonderful sales on steak, so my reboot of this month’s entry is a filet stuffed with rice, roasted tomatoes, herbs, and bacon, with a similar tomato basil aurore sauce (since it was so good from the last post). Oh, and feta. Can’t forget the feta.

Memorial Day Jousting…

29 Apr 2009 Spicy Tuna Rolls with Sriracha Wasabi Sauce
Author: petermarcus |  Category: Contests, Friends, Photography, Recipes, Royal Foodie Joust, The Left Over Queen, asian, fish, garlic, ginger, sauces, tuna  | 17 Comments

Last month, we won the Royal Foodie Joust, hosted by Jenn, The Leftover Queen. As part of the prize (along with the coveted Joust apron), we got to choose the three ingredients for this month’s Joust.

I was hoping for pure creative and fun cooking, and since FotoCuisine loves the way food looks as well as tastes, I chose “Red, White, and Green” as the ingredients. Each cook should interpret “Red, White, and Green” ingredients however they would like.

I can’t help but play along, even though we’re out of the voting this month. I made a spicy tuna roll (red tuna, white rice, green nori), with a spicy sriracha wasabi sauce (red sriracha, green wasabi, white(ish) garlic/ginger).

Roll on in…

07 Mar 2009 Red Curry Shrimp Supreme
Author: petermarcus |  Category: Friends, Photography, Recipes, The Left Over Queen, asian, curry, dinners, food, risotto, sauces, shellfish, shrimp, veloute  | 13 Comments

This just happens to be the 100th post on FotoCuisine.com. It also happens to use some ingredients given to us by our favorite foodie friends, Jenn and Roberto, from The Leftover Queen during their visit with us recently.

Jenn has some friends who send her spices from all over the world, and when Jenn and Roberto visited us, she gave me a sample stash from her larger stash. Most of the spices seemed to originate from the Indonesian area of the world, and even in storage, their fragrance is still amazing every time I open the cabinet door!

I wanted to make a red curry shrimp, but I fusioned it with some French techniques. I actually have some homemade coconut milk, but instead, I decided to make a sauce supreme (basically a velouté with cream) infused with red curry powder. In a sense, it’s like the cream Cajun or Mexican sauces common in American restaurants — stock, spices, cream, and roux — with a subcontinent/southern-Asian inspiration.

Feel the heat

03 Feb 2009 Foodie Weekend!!!
Author: Christey |  Category: Friends, Photography, Recipes, The Left Over Queen, dinners, food, travel  | 4 Comments

Two weeks ago we had some wonderful visitors come to town, Jenn and Roberto of The Left Over Queen food blog. We met them a few months back when we had a Foodbuzz sponsored dinner at Blue Zoo and the four of us connected really well and made plans to visit each other soon.

They are from St. Augustine, which is right up the road a bit, so they came down for the weekend. As soon as they arrived, which happened to be lunch time, we went up the road to our quaint downtown area and ate at Matt’s Casbah (a landmark location, that had closed and was taken over and redone by another landmark local chef)

Much more food and friends back here