Sunday Guides, A Tropical Party

Late Summer Entertaining With A Tropical Flair!

 
 

Editor, Michele Rosenthal

Photo & Styling by Paris House

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We are savoring every day of Summer! This weeks Sunday Guides is all about having fun and enjoying delicious food with your favorite people!

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Here are our Tips & Recipes to help you put together a fun effortless tropical themed party!!!

Menu: recipes below

Jamaican Pork Tenderloin With Sauce Caribe (adapted from southern living)

 
 

We have been making this DELICIOUS and EASY recipe for 21 years & EVERYONE loves it! If you are in the Chester NJ area we highly recommend Chester Meat Market. I have been shopping there for decades. It’s outstanding.

  • coconut mint iced tea add rum if you like

  • Dessert - too hot to bake?!!! or simply don’t feel like spending all day in the kitchen!!! No worries get a dessert delivery straight to your door!!! We love Mini upside down pineapple cakes that will pair beautifully with our Tropical Dinner Menu!!! We linked them for you! Fun tip!!! Add a sparkler to the top of each mini cake and WOW your guests (please use EXTREME caution around guests & children and make sure to put out flame in water before disposing)

  • Decorate table with palm leaves and a few grocery store orchids! Scatter seashells down the center of table. No time to decorate or arrange flowers!? Call us!!! We deliver.

  • Don’t have a pool?!!! No worries!!! get a little kiddie pool & a slippery slide!!! Your guests will have so much fun & make lifelong memories. Try Walmart, Target, Amazon

  • Don’t forget a fun playlist!!!

 
 
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Recipes:

Our Grilled pork tenderloin topped with the most delicious red current Caribe Sauce. It’s amazing!

Jamaican Pork Tenderloin With Sauce Caribe. (Our pork tenderloin is from Chester Meats, Chester NJ.)

Recipe Adapted from southern living 2002 issue!!

Ingredients:

  • 1 1/2 to 2 pounds PORK Tenderloin (our pork tenderloin are from Chester Meats!)

  • 3 tablespoons fresh orange juice

  • 1 & 1/2 tablespoons McCORMICK Gourmet Collection Jamaican Jerk Seasoning (or substitute with your favorite brand)

  • 1/2 cup red currant jelly

  • 1/4 cup Dijon mustard

  • 2 tablespoons dark rum or orange juice (I use orange juice)

  • Garnishes: chopped honey-roasted USA PEANUTS, tropical pesticide free edible flowers

  • Long-grain and wild rice (optional)

Directions:

Preheat Grill

Spoon the 3 tablespoons of orange juice over the tenderloins. Sprinkle 1 & 1/2 tablespoons Jamaican seasoning over the top.

Grill pork until cooked through, do not burn

While pork is grilling make the sauce.

Add these ingredients to sauce pan:

1/2 cup red currant jelly

1/4 cup Dijon mustard

  • 2 tablespoons dark rum or orange juice (I use orange juice)

Heat until combined and sauce is thinned a bit

Cover pork & let rest for 5-10 minutes

Slice and place on serving platter. Spoon sauce over, sprinkle with honey roasted peanuts. Garnish.

Serve warm!

Coconut-Mint Iced Tea

Of course, if you're in the mood for a tropical cocktail, add a splash of rum.

8 SERVINGS

2 cups fresh mint leaves (from 2 large bunches)

8 cups double-strength fresh-brewed tropical blend iced tea (such as original blend Paradise brand)

1 cup (or more) coconut syrup*

5 tablespoons (or more) fresh lemon juice

Ice cubes

Place mint leaves in large pitcher. Crush mint with muddler or wooden spoon.

Add hot tea, 1 cup coconut syrup, and 5 tablespoons lemon juice. Add more coconut syrup by tablespoonfuls and lemon juice by teaspoonfuls, if desired.

Cool completely. Fill glasses with ice, pour tea over, and serve.

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Easy and delicious Breakfast & Brunch Recipes!

Perfect For Your Next Party

 
 

Recipe

Scrape one vanilla beam into a container of greek yogurt. We like FAGE full fat

Fill small bowls with layer of yogurt

Top with an excellent quality granola

We used bear naked granola

Next top with honey to taste

Then add mixed berries

***This can be made the night before & actually tastes better the next day!

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Brussels Sprout Pizza

BRUSSEL SPROUTS PIZZA

Preheat oven & pizza stone in 400 degree oven

    • Make a Parmesan cheese mayo mix- combine aprx 1/2 cup mayo & 1 cup shredded parm (not finely grated) season with fresh ground pepper & kosher or sea salt

    • Sauté 4 medium yellow onions in 2-3 tablespoons extra Virgin olive oil season w/ s&p

    • Add aprx 1 cup - of peeled brussel sprouts Sauté through

    • Carefully remove pizza stone from oven

    • Spread thin layer of cheese Mayo mixture over each -good quality -naan bread (feel free to grate a little more Parmesan cheese over each pizza) and a layer of sautéed brussel sprout onions on top

    • Add your pizzas to oven

    • Bake until golden & bubbly 10-15 minutes keep an eye on them so they don’t burn

    • Remove from oven

    • Drizzle with a little pumpkin seed oil

    • Serve & enjoy

    • An autumn beer, red wine, glogg, hot mulled cider will pair beautifully

    • We recently had glogg in Scandinavia & it’s delicious!!

    • lightly dressed salad would be lovely on the side

    • For Dessert our puff pastry apple tatin with a side of pumpkin ice cream is heavenly

    • Pizza cooking autumn fall food BRUSSEl sprouts

Steak Frites (With the easiest shortcut to make delicious Truffle Gorgonzola Fries) We top our Steaks with Maitre D’ Hotel Herbed Butter!

 
 

Steak Frites & a glass of red wine transports me right back to a bistro in Paris. We make ours with fillet tenderloins and they are so delicious! We love The Balthazar cookbook and use their recipe. I will outline here & go over making “Maitre d’hotel butter”

Let’s start things off with a very quick & easy version of Gorgonzola Truffle oil French fries ( I also included a lengthier version below from a recipe graciously given to me from The Breakers Hotel in Palm Beach Florida). I have taken cooking classes & shopped food markets & mercado around the world for years. I love bringing back inspiration from my travels to my home kitchen and hopefully inspiring our readers, friends, & family to “Get Cooking”

Shortcut Gorgonzola Truffle Fries

1 bag thin cut frozen French fried

Good quality truffle oil (we used black truffle oil

A small sprinkling of sea salt (optional)

Fresh ground black pepper

Block of Gorgonzola cheese

Preheat oven to 375

Spread thawed fries out on baking sheet

Add a little sea salt & cracked pepper

Bake in oven until they begin to crisp up

Remove from oven

Drizzle a small amount of truffle oil over fries & toss

Crumble Gorgonzola on top of fries ( use as much or as little, depending on how much you like) I typically use about half of the block of Gorgonzola. Don’t over power the fries.

Return to oven and continue to bake

*** I like to then broil for a few minutes to get the fries nice and crispy. But please take care to NOT walk away as they can burn very quickly. I watch them closely

I typically do this while my steaks are cooking, either on the stove in a grill pan ( we love Le Crueset) or on an outdoor grill

Remember to let your steaks rest after grilling to lock in all that delicious juice.

Maître d’hotel Butter

(Herbed Butter)

FOR THE MAÎTRE D'HÔTEL BUTTER

 
 

Adapted from Balthazar, (however, we made several changes in our version below)

½ pound (2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened (personally we like using one stick salted & one stick unsalted)

2 tablespoons finely chopped flat-leaf parsley

1 shallot, finely chopped

1 garlic clove, finely chopped

½ teaspoon chopped fresh sage

1 tablespoon chopped fresh chives

1/2 teaspoon salt

Pinch of freshly ground black pepper

Combine ingredients & roll into cylinder, wrap in plastic or parchment and chill in fridge.

•FOR THE STEAKS

Adapted from Balthazar Cookbook

We used fillet

4. steaks, about 10 ounces each, about 1 inch thick

2 tablespoons salt

2 tablespoons coarsely ground black pepper

3 tablespoons olive oil

Plate your steaks and Gorgonzola truffle fries and add a little Pat of Maître d’hotel butter on top of steaks letting it melt gloriously onto hot steaks!

*** adapted from The Breakers Hotel & my article was published for a cooking sit several years ago. For those of you who prefer, we added a lengthier version, if you feel like trying this instead of our quick shortcut recipe above! Gorgonzola Truffle Oil French Fries with Citrus
6 Idaho potatoes, one package of gorgonzola cheese, a triangle wedge 1 cup of heavy cream 2 tbsp of truffle oil (either black or white) – I used black, because that is what I had on hand. The juice of half an orange, sea salt and freshly ground pepper, to taste Scrub potatoes clean, keeping the skin on. Cut potatoes in half lengthwise and place the potato half in the slicer, pull down the lever to make even fry-shaped slices.
Fill your deep fryer with vegetable oil to the appropriate level indicated in the directions. Fry potatoes in batches until golden brown, taking care to not crowd them.
Drain on paper towels and sprinkle with sea salt
Add the heavy cream to a saucepan and reduce over medium heat for about 5 minutes. Stir in chunked up pieces of the Gorgonzola cheese. Add the truffle oil, continuing to stir. Remove from heat and add the juice from half an orange slat and pepper to taste. Place French Fries on a decorative platter and drizzle with gorgonzola sauce and serve.

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Homemade Apple Cider Glazed Dumplings

 
 

Our apple dumplings are one of my family and friends favorite Autumn dessert I make!

We use Dufour puff pastry, local apples & local apple cider. I live in the countryside of New Jersey with several wonderful farms & cider mills.

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Recipe:

Core apples ( we typically make 6 dumplings)

Add a small Pat of salted butter & 1 heaping tablespoon of light brown sugar

Add a very small pinch of ground cinnamon

Roll out thawed Dufour puff pastry

Wrap each apple

We typically can make 4 dumplings per one sheet of puff pastry

Bake in pre heated oven check around 20 minutes so they don’t over brown

cool and add icing

Apple cider icing:

Combine

2 tablespoons apple cider

1 cup confectionery sugar

1 tablespoon of heavy cream

(You can easily double the icing- add more apple cider or more powdered sugar to get the consistency you want)

Serve with scope vanilla ice ream

Preheat oven to 400 degrees (all ovens are different so be careful not to burn or overcook your dumplings. We used an ovenproof ceramic casserole dish to bake in. We only put 4 dumplings per baking dish as to NOT overcrowd them and allow them for o puff up into a beautifully delicious buttery dessert.

*** please note the buttery brown sugar filling will not make your puff pastry soggy & will be incredible while warm melting into the side of vanilla ice cream. you can certainly omit that but it’s what makes these delicate pastries more unique, mouthwatering & irresistible!