2014 Creative Arts Ball and 66th Emmy Awards Governors Ball Menu and Recipes

First Course
Grilled Peach and Heirloom Tomato Salad
Little gem lettuce, candy striped figs, burrata, honey vidalia, peppermint, basil, toasted Marcona almonds, fleur de sel

Main Course
Filet of beef, artisan grapes, Idaho 90 potato “bone,” zephyr squash, caramelized cippolini, crisp lacinato kale

Dessert
Chocolate S’mores
Alunga™ whipped ganache, torched marshmallow fluff, graham crumble, Inaya™ chocolate pop rocks

Wines
2013 Beaulieu Vineyard® Maestro Collection Sauvignon Blanc

2011 Beaulieu Vineyard Georges de Latour Private Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon

2012 Beaulieu Vineyard Maestro Collection Napa Valley Port and NV Muscat de Beaulieu will be served at the bars.

66th Emmy® Awards Governors Ball Recipes By Chef and Founder, Joachim Splichal of Patina Restaurant Group

First Course
Grilled Peach and Heirloom Tomato Salad
Little gem lettuce, candy striped figs, burrata, honey vidalia, peppermint, basil, toasted Marcona almonds, fleur de sel

Serves 6
3 heads little gem lettuce
5 ripe summer peaches
6 candy striped figs
1 green zebra tomato
1 pineapple marvel tomato
1 brandywine tomato
1 vidalia onion
6 ounces preserved lemon dressing
3 ounces lemon vinaigrette
2 ounces preserved lemon
2 teaspoons honey
1 teaspoon rice wine vinegar
6 ounces extra virgin olive oil
1 ounce fresh squeezed lemon
1 ounce basil leaves
1 ounce peppermint leaves
3 ounces buratta mozzarella
½ ounce fleur de sel
3 ounces toasted Marcona almonds

Cut the peaches in 1/4s, discard the pit and lightly grill.

Cut the lettuce into leaves and lay in 6 equal stacks.

Slice each fig in 3 horizontal slices.

Slice the tomatoes into wedges, and season with olive oil and fleur de sel.

Spoon the mozzarella into 6 mounds, drizzle some olive oil on top and season with fleur de sel and a little freshly ground black pepper.

Slice the onion into rings ¼ inch wide and blanch in salted water until cooked through and all bitterness is removed.

Place the cooked onions in a small pan and coat lightly with honey, salt and pepper.

Make the preserved lemon dressing by blending the preserved lemon, 1 tsp of the honey, rice wine vinegar, and 3 ounces olive oil.

Make the lemon vinaigrette by whisking 3 ounces olive oil into 1 ounce lemon juice.

To Serve:
Place a stack of lettuce leaves in the center of 6 plates. Surround the lettuce with the peaches, tomatoes, onions, almonds, figs and mozzarella. Sprinkle basil and peppermint around the lettuce. Spoon some preserved lemon vinaigrette on the plate, and then drizzle some of the lemon vinaigrette over the lettuce.

Second Course
Filet of beef, artisan grapes, Idaho 90 potato “bone”, zephyr squash, caramelized cippolini, crisp lacinato kale

Serves 6
2 lbs. prime beef tenderloin
5 ounces olive oil
6 medium sized russet potatoes, 4 ½ inches in length
2 large Yukon gold potatoes
2 cup milk
5 ounces butter
6 zephyr squash
½ ounce fresh basil, cut in strips
8 leaves kale
3 ounces olive oil
A pinch of nutritional yeast
6 cipollini onions
3 ounces witch fingers grapes
3 ounces cotton candy grapes
4 tablespoons finely chopped onion
1 clove garlic, smashed
1 cup red wine
1 tsp Dijon mustard

For the beef:

Season the beef with salt and pepper, and sear in a pan with 2 ounces olive oil, until caramelized on all sides

Place in oven, and cook to an internal temperature of 128 degrees

Remove from oven and let rest 5 minutes

For the red wine sauce:

Sauté the 4 tbsp. finely chopped onion over low heat for 2 minutes, then pour in the red wine

Add the smashed garlic and 1 branch of the thyme, raise the heat, and cook until the wine is reduced by half

Remove the pan from heat and stir in 3 ounces butter, followed by the mustard.

Season with salt and pepper

For the potatoes:

Bake the Yukon gold potatoes until cooked through, peel and pass through a strainer or food mill, and place in a saucepot

Add milk until potatoes have the consistency of mashed potatoes

Add butter, salt and pepper and set aside

Trim the russet potatoes into bone-shaped cylinders, place in a saucepot covered with cold water, and cook very slowly until the potatoes are just barely cooked

Let cool and carefully hollow out the center with a
small spoon

Season with salt and pepper, and fill with mashed potatoes

For the garniture:

Peel cippollini onions, and sauté slowly in olive oil until tender

Blanch the zephyr squash in rapidly boiling salted water until cooked through, shock in ice water and drain

Lightly sauté the squash in a little olive oil with basil strips

Drizzle some olive oil on the kale leaves, season with nutritional yeast and bake in a 325 degree oven until crisp

To serve:
Cut the beef into 6 pieces and put one on each plate. Alongside the beef, place a zephyr squash and potato bone. Pour some red wine sauce over the beef, and garnish each plate with a kale chip, onion, a
few cotton candy grapes, and a small cluster of witch finger grapes.

Dessert Course
Chocolate S’mores
Alunga™ whipped ganache, torched marshmallow fluff, graham crumble, Inaya™ chocolate pop rocks

Milk Chocolate Chantilly
4 cups heavy cream
2 cups Alunga™ milk chocolate

Heat the heavy cream in a pot

Once cream is hot, pour over the chocolate

Whisk well until the chocolate is completely melted

Place in a plastic container and cover with plastic wrap

Store overnight in refrigerator

Use a mixing bowl with a whisk attachment mix the Chantilly until it is medium firm

Crème Brulee
1 quart heavy cream
8 each egg yolks
1 cup granulated Sugar
2 each vanilla bean

Boil cream and vanilla beans

Mix the sugar with the yolks

Pour some the hot milk over the yolks while whisking vigorously

Bake in a water bath at 300 degrees for 15-18 minutes in small dome silicon molds

Once it has baked, cool and freeze

Flourless Chocolate Sheets
2 ½ cups egg whites
¾ cups sugar
2 ½ cups Inaya™ dark chocolate
1 ¼ cups unsalted butter
1 ½ cups yolks

Melt dark chocolate and butter and whisk together

Whisk in yolks into the chocolate.

In a mixing bowl with a whisk attachment whisk the egg whites until they grow and become fluffy

Pour in the granulated sugar slowly and mix to medium peaks

Fold in the chocolate mix into the egg whites slowly

Spread unto a sheet pan and bake at 320 degrees for 8-9 minutes

Cool and store in freezer

Graham crumble

2 ½ pounds graham cracker crumbs
½ pounds brown butter
5 grams salt
Pinch cinnamon

Place unsalted butter in a small pot and let it cook on low heat until it gets a nutty brown color

Take it off the heat

In a bowl put the cracker crumbs, salt and cinnamon

Mix in the melted brown butter (it’s okay if it’s hot) and mix all the
ingredients together

Marshmallow Fluff
1 cup granulated sugar
½ cup egg whites
3 tablespoons water

Place the water and sugar in a stainless steel sauce pot and combine with a whisk

With a pastry brush dipped in water, clean down the sides of the stainless steel pot from thesugar residue

Cook sugar to 118 C

While the sugar is cooking, place the egg whites in a Kitchen Aid mixer with a whisk attachment

Whisk to medium peaks

Once the sugar has reached 110 C, pour into the egg whites slowly (it should be a stream no thicker than a pencil)

Mix until fluffy

Chocolate pop rocks

Purchase at the local grocery store (non-chocolate ones work as well)

To Serve:
Fill a bowl with the chocolate Chantilly. Insert the frozen crème brulee pieces and cover with broken up pieces of the flourless chocolate cake. Garnish with dollops of the marshmallow fluff, graham crumble
and the chocolate pop rocks