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Cooking Class - NYC Series - Amanda Cohen

Our next two cooking classes features recipes from Amanda Cohen and are all vegetarian. All of these recipes were labor fairly labor intensive. For example, our instructor, worked on drying out some zucchini for over 24 hours to prep one dish for the class as well as some others. So needless to say, we wouldn't have been able to get everything done in one 3 hour class session if we had to do all the work. We made several dishes as usual which included parsnip gnocchi with sour red cabbage and carrot crumbs, portabello mousse with pear and fennel compote, smoked sweet potato nicoise salad with chickpea dressing, butternut squash soup with butternut dumplings, Knishes, zucchini ginger cake with zucchini cream and zucchini candy with cinnamon caramel and cream cheese ice cream and the cocktail of the class was Kentucky Lemonade. This menu was really good but fairly difficult unless done in stages or unless you have 1/2 a day free to cook. For example, the parsnips needed 2 hours...

Brown Sugar Cheesecake

I don't know about anyone else but I get tired of making the same recipes over and over and once in a while I look for different things to try or at least change up a favorite.  I've got my tried and true recipe collection and there's my I've-got-to-make-this-one-day collection because they sound really good. And since cheesecake is one of my favorite desserts and my dad's birthday is this month, I decided to dig out one of those recipes I promised I'd try and found this one: Brown Sugar Cheesecake with Bourbon Butterscotch Sauce . Oooooh yeah, sign me up baby! I found this recipe on Epicurious which received 3.5 forks out of 4. The reviews were good but there were a few issues "not thick like a NY cheesecake" and some had problems with the sauce.  I too enjoy a NY style thick cheesecake, which is how I always make mine and the directions for the sauce seem, well, weird. First things first, I didn't have any bourbon but I had rum, whic...