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Category : BasqueStage, Videos
Sammic scholar Athena Thickstun is back with a video for us, this time drawing inspiration from her American roots. The video crew arrived to a studio filled with the smells of cinnamon, sugar and maple syrup….cinnamon rolls! Athena shows us how to create the popular pastry, from the yeasty dough to the slightly tricky shaping of the rolls. The delicious filling of melted butter, cinnamon and sugar is sprinkled over the square of dough, which is then rolled up and sliced to bake. Athena modernizes her rolls with a cream cheese-maple icing. Que rico!
Category : Videos
Sammic scholar for BasqueStage Tracy Chang presents a coconut bizcocho that would be right at home on the dessert menu of Restaurant Martín Berasategui. Using the coconut ice cream from the actual dessert menu, she incorporates it into one of Spain’s most popular desserts, the bizcocho (or cake). She adds her own nostalgic flavors, like star anise and ginger, and also manages to incorporate one of her favorite snacks from here, “potato” chips, made from yam. Buen provecho!
Category : Videos
Sammic scholar for BasqueStage Athena Thickstun takes us step by step as she creates a dessert reminiscent of the landscape of San Sebastián. She uses exotic ingredients like kataifi, a type of Middle Easter pastry most often used in sweet applications. Athena also shows the home cook how to adapt alta cocina techniques, like the famous ‘microwave cake’.
Tracy and Athena bring another video to you highlighting a very popular Basque dish, kokotxas al pil-pil. This dish is often made with little more than olive oil, garlic, and kokotxas, the meat from the area around the codfish’s throath. Yet an incredible rich sauce is formed as the juices from the fish emulsify with the oil.
The keys are in the details: temperature control, handling of the fish, and a few magical flicks of the wrist. Watch the BasqueStages prepare the dish and you can pick up some helpful hints if you want to try this one at home. Which, by the way, we fully recommend. It isn’t legendary for nothing!
Category : Videos
The first BasqueStage video is officially here! Watch as chef Martín Berasategui teaches two yankees how to make one of the most traditional dishes of the region: patatas con chorizo. Garrote!
You can see Athena in another video featuring Sammic’s line of products here.