Patreon video: where Fanny is "touching a lot of wood", has thought up another excuse to go on hols (this time to Germany), Snorty has lost his horse, and Marie molests some flowers. Try not to vomit.
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Hello lovely people!
Whilst making tonight's Patreon video, I realised I had enough footage to make an entire extra video. So, later this weekend, I'll upload another Patreon video for you - as a little bonus this week!
I hope you all enjoy the video(s), lots of love from Lalande <3
Stephanie x "
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Stephanie Jarvis is a con artist. The Chateau Diaries is a scam.
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Apparantly she now uploads on Saturdays (which means Sunday early morning)
I couldn't make out what the pale green soup was at the €75 dinner was. First thought, do not serve pale green starter with a pale green entreé, rookie hospitality biz mistake.
I have to admit, the sauce on the cabbage is not Black Sauce #6 in a series, or is it seven?
Larousse has four recipes for
chou farcie -- pork, rice and varying additions such as tomato and peas for a la Provençal -- and this sauce could be one of those (reduce braising liquid, add brown sauce). All are considered the garnish for a large roast. None is an entree to be served on its own. Not saying MariA should be cooking French food, just noting the world-wide variations on the topic and the French proscription of it as an entree on its own.
So that's the orthodox standard. Mine is similar. You don't serve burger to €75 a head guests. This is Stephanie's doing. She shouldn't allow it but it's part of her starve-the-volunteers as well as the paying and non-paying guests ethos. (Still haven't forgotten Clara's point that she made her friends pay for their meals.)
Online French stuffed cabbage recipes include chestnuts and other seasonal numnums.
This is something that's way too finicky for me to make for anybody, paying or non-paying. If I'm going to do something this labor intensive, let it be expensive. So I deconstructed my favorite recipe and make a cabbage and stuffing soup, again, one of my favorite fruit-in-savory-dishes. I still wouldn't serve it in a professional setting, this is for family. From Abe Lebewohl's iconic 2nd Avenue Deli, RIP.
Lebewohl was born in Ukraine, as were many of the Lower East Siders in the olden days, and I suspect that's the influence on this touchstone sweet and sour, citrus-tomato recipe. I see no trace of this influence on MariA's version. There are a jillion recipes for Ukrainian stuffed cabbage online, all delicious, none suitable for this service.
Editor's note: This recipe is reprinted from The Second Avenue Deli Cookbook, by Sharon Lebewohl and Rena Bulkin. On Succoth, a joyous seven-day autumn harvest festival (a kind of Jewish Thanksgiving), stuffed foodsmost notably holishkes, but also kreplach, stuffed peppers, and strudelsare...
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