If you have come looking for food and wine recipes that literally take your breath away, this TIRAMISU paired with a delightful Santa Margherita Prosecco, simply will put the wind in your apron.
Lady Fingers
5 eggs
⅝ cup sugar
⅝ cup all-purpose flour, sifted
½ pinch salt
Espresso syrup
6 Tbsp. espresso
2 Tbsp. sugar
2 Tbsp. water
2 Tbsp. rum
Mousse
6 egg yolks
9 Tbsp. sugar
9 Tbsp. marsala wine
1 ½ cup mascarpone
1 ½ cup cream – whipped
Lady Fingers:
Separate the eggs. Whip yolks with ½ of the sugar until pale. Whip whites and the other ½ sugar until firm. Fold them together. Add sifted flour and salt and fold gently. Spread into sheet pans (12×16) lined with parchment paper and bake at 350° F. for 10 min.
Espresso syrup:
Mix hot espresso with the sugar, water, and rum.
Mousse:
Mix yolks, sugar and marsala wine in a bowl over double boiler. Whip until pale and thick. Take the mixture off the stove and fold in the mascarpone cheese. Finally, fold in the whipped cream.
To Build:
Using a cake pan, place the first lady finger layer on the bottom. Soak with espresso syrup (see Espresso syrup recipe above) and add ½ of the mousse (see Mousse recipe above). Add another layer of lady fingers, soak with syrup and mousse. Refrigerate overnight. Garnish with cocoa powder before serving.
Wine Notes: The delicate bubbles in Santa Margherita Prosecco are well-matched with the feather-light texture of Tiramisu.
Look for more food and wine recipes from Santa Margherita…and never, ever, ever, stop trying to find the most amazing pairings of your favorite recipes with our best wines!
That is, we think, one of life’s greatest recipes!
Manga!
PS… Do not forget to check out The Great Taste Challenge to see how your skills at pairing wine and foods could soon make you unforgettable in the kitchen.
Looking for an amazing new food and wine event this weekend, April 24-26th? Why not dig deep into your favorite recipe book, head out to your absolute favorite shoppe for the best ingredients, and then head to the best wine store for the best Santa Margherita to go with whatever it is you can “see” being paired up in the kitchen!
That’s really what The Great Taste Challenge is…the celebration of how we match the best foods with our favorite wines.
And by showing off just how adept we are at it, and through use of a simple video, we’ve made it possible to have a food and wine event in which YOU star!!! And this weekend, if you do submit multiple food and wine recipes into The Great Taste Challenge, and you are one of the first 5 to do so, you will be the proud new owner of a Flip Camera!
Here’s a great video that explains.
How ironic that the food and wine event you may be looking for could be going on in YOUR OWN KITCHEN.
Naturally there aremany food and wine recipes out there. As real lovers of pairing, we at Santa Margherita just happen to love the ones that stick! We simply adore food and wine pairings that create an artful balance between the perfect foods and just the right Santa Margherita Wines.
So as you prepare your kitchen and your corkscrew for your entry into The Great Taste Challenge with your best food and wine recipes, here’s one to get the mouth watering!!!
EGG FRITTATA WITH ENGLISH PEAS,
MINT AND PECORINO
PAIRS WITH SANTA MARGHERITA PINOT GRIGIO
EGG FRITTATA WITH ENGLISH PEAS,
MINT AND PECORINO
PAIRS WITH SANTA MARGHERITA PINOT GRIGIO
12 large eggs
1 cup shelled and blanched english peas
¼ cup chffanade fresh mint
1 cup grated pecorino cheese
Salt and pepper to taste
1 oz. extra virgin olive oil
Preheat oven to 350° F.
In a medium mixing bowl, crack and lightly beat eggs . Bring two quarts of water to a boil and lightly salt. Shell peas and blanch in boiling salted water until tender; refresh peas in ice water and set aside. Pick mint leaves and stack on top of each other. Use a sharp chef’s knife to cut the stacks of mint into thin strips and set aside. Using a microplane, grate pecorino and set aside. Place a 12-inch non-stick sauté pan over medium heat, add olive oil. Add peas to pan and lightly sauté, (about 30 seconds). Add beaten eggs to peas and let eggs start to set. When eggs are a quarter of the way set, stir in the mint and cheese and season to taste with salt and pepper. When eggs are set halfway, place pan with eggs into oven until fully set. Using a towel, remove the pan from oven and slide eggs out of pan onto a cutting board. Top frittata with additionalchiffanade mint and pecorino, cut into 8 equal pieces, and serve.
Wine Notes: The bright aromatics of Santa Margherita Pinot Grigio are emphasized by the fresh mint and the saltiness of the pecorino cheese.
Now, when you are ready with your best food and wine pairing and you are convinced that it is your time to shine, head over to The Great Taste Challenge.
This coming weekend, April 16-18, 2010, the Santa Margherita Great Taste Challenge is heating up even more by having a “potluck with a purpose.”
Wait till you see how delicious this beautiful April weekend is going to be…
Santa Margherita will give a free Flip Mino Camcorder to people who submit two or more videos for the Great Taste Challenge! Have your friends over.
Share your favorite dishes. Shoot each other and each person’s dish according to the contest guidelines. The first five hosts that submit two or more videos from their potluck parties will win a free video camera.
Yes, free.
Here’s a great way for you not only to enter for a chance to win an amazing trip for two to Los Angeles, but this weekend ONLY you could win a FREE Flip Mino Camcorder by being one of the first five hosts to submit two or more videos from your “potluck with a purpose.”
There’s no time to lose (literally). Learn more about the www.santamargherita.us/Contest Santa Margherita Great Taste Challenge and your new chance to win a great new video Flip and a trip to Los Angeles!
While the world speeds out of control with technology at light speed, there has been a real resurgence in what is real in our lives. That goes further and further until we find those very honest things that we love no matter what the time or the place…and great food and wine recipes are that and so much more.
Doesn’t matter a lick if you’re reading this on your new iPad in your hybrid while Tweeting to your masses. What matters day in and day out to so many of us is that very rare combination of great food and the perfect wine, enjoyed with family and friends, that create a meal that is deserving of a memory.
The food and wine recipes that are inside of your head, maybe even the ones that have been passed down to you, the recipes for food and wine that you KNOW set a meal apart, now want to see the light of publicity.
In fact, that’s exactly why we created The Great Taste Challenge…so that you could submit your best food and wine recipe on video for the chance to win some rather delicious prizes.
In its second year, the Santa Margherita Great Taste Challenge really is a celebration of
how foods and wines are paired in the kitchens of America…and trust us, we want to see what you’ve got.
Judging this year is famed chef Fabio Viviani, the co-owner and Executive Chef of Café Firenze Italian Restaurant and Martini Bar in Ventura County, California. Needless to point out his careful attention to wine and food detail, chef Fabio cannot wait to sink his teeth into your entries…as he knows (like we do) that more and more people have become far more savvy with how they pair foods and wine to get the perfect tastes and meals.
A word about the contest. Keep it simple. You don?t have to prepare your dish during the video. Just show the finished entrée, which wine you paired it with and tell us a little about why you brought them together. Tell us anything. We want to hear your inspiration.
Ok, The Great Taste Challenge is on.
The call for amazing food and wine recipes is on.
You only need a simple video camera and the will to win.
Santa Margherita wants to know what food and wine recipes YOU think will win!
Santa Margherita became the celebrated wine that it is today as a result of the entrepreneurial spirit of one man. A young importer named Anthony Terlato set out on a trip to Italy in search of the “next great white wine.”
At a small restaurant in a local inn, Anthony ordered 18 bottles of Pinot Grigio off the wine list. After tasting all the wines with the Inn’s proprietor, he determined the best wine at the table was Santa Margherita Pinot Grigio. Santa Margherita Pinot Grigio quickly became a mainstay on wine lists in America’s finest restaurants across the country and is still today the most requested Italian wine in America.
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