CT Style Summer Kick Off!
I was kicking off my seasonal summer dishes on the set of CT Style Morning Show in the Bender Kitchen this week! Doing the cooking segment on CT Style was so much fun, I thoroughly enjoyed every minute and everyone there was very welcoming. Besides presenting the “featured” recipe in the segment showing off some of my other high viewing YouTube shows was important to me so I began to organize and get the prep work done. These other recipe’s that I wanted to display in the segment were my homemade Caesar Salad, Buffalo Chicken Dip, Baked Asparagus Wrapped in Prosciutto, CrazyGood Candied Pecans and the Pavlova. The other aspect of getting ready for CT Style was getting all my art work and photos in order with high resolution graphics and Steve at Gulla Design did a wonderful job helping me with this!
The actual featured recipe for the show was the cold cucumber & fennel soup topped with seared scallops. If you have never tried this yet you need to put this at the top of your list because the flavors here are out of this world! If you are not a big soup person you have to at least have the seared scallops with my green goddess sauce for another amazing duo!
The cold cucumber and fennel soup is the same soup I presented in the MasterChef Open Casting Call in NYC this past March. All the tasting judges had loved the soup! Although, for the MasterChef presentation I had topped the soup with Alaskan King Crab. For the CT Style segment I placed seared scallops in the center of the soup. Scallops are very tender when cooked properly, and have a mild flavor but can totally stand up to the bursting flavors of the soup without getting lost. Topping the soup with the scallops is definitely my favorite way to have this dish. The cold cucumber & fennel soup and seared scallop make for a perfect match!
I hope you will enjoy my “CT Style Summer Kick Off” as much as I did! This cold cucumber & fennel soup with seared scallops may change your summer. Since we are talking about boosting your culinary summer, I’m going to keep on you about making your own BBQ Sauce until you get it done! Another great side dish for summer is my Zucchini Torta and a refreshing dessert of Fresh Berry Granita! And don’t forget the amazing Metaxa Mojito’s to kick off your get together! Enjoy 🙂
