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Bastille Day Indulging: Triple Chocolate Financiers

France may be long gone from the World Cup, but that doesn’t mean we have to stick to schnitzel (or whatever it is the Dutch/Argentinians eat) at our viewing parties this weekend. Bastille Day — everyone’s favorite excuse to overdo it on red wine and rich food — is coming up this Monday, which means it’s time to break out the good stuff.

In honor of France’s big day, Master pâtissier Francois Payard was nice enough to share this over-the-top indulgent recipe for his signature triple chocolate financiers.

You’ll need a financier pan for the recipe below (clearly you have one, right?) If not, good ol’ muffin tins will do just fine.

Triple Chocolate Financiers

Endless Cocktails: A Summer in Manhattan

I love me some whiskey cocktails, but I always feel weird ordering them in summer, so I was excited to come across this find: a whiskey drink that is made especially for summer dreaming.

Chef Marc Forgione (Iron Chef / owner of Restaurant Marc Forgione in Tribeca) teamed up with glassybaby to create this cocktail, which mixes fresh strawberries into this new “Perfect Manhattan.”

Market Strawberry Infused ‘Perfect’ Manhattan

·2.5 oz Jefferson’s Small Batch Bourbon
·1.5 oz Strawberry Infused Dolin Vermouth (See recipe)
2 Dashes of Bitters (preferably Brooklyn Hemispherical Strawberry)

To make the Strawberry Vermouth, combine a bottle each of Dolin Sweet, Dry and Blanc Vermouth with 3 pints of market fresh strawberries and let them sit for at least a day. For smaller batches make sure to use equal parts of each vermouth. ?When complete the aroma of strawberry will over power that of the vermouth. For a lighter libation the strawberry Vermouth is great on its own with a few ice cubes.

Stir mixture of all three ingredients in a mixing glass with ice, then strain over fresh 1″x 1″ ice cubes in a rocks glass.

Garnish with a skewered bourbon soaked cherry, strawberry segment and a lemon twist.

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Licking Uncle Sam

With 4th of July just days away, it’s time to start seriously thinking about how we’re going to eat and drink our patriotic fervor this year.

Fortunately, you can do both in one with Endless Simmer’s 4th of July cocktail cooler popsicles. Enjoy.

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Bacon Mania!

Hey guys. Have I mentioned before that I like bacon?

No? I feel like I might have brought that up once or twice or 100 times in the past.

Well you won’t be surprised to learn that I was pretty excited to discover the new website Farmland Bacon Club. There are a lot of websites out there, but IMHO too many of them don’t focus exclusively on bacon. Farmland Bacon Club is 100% dedicated to celebrating all things smoked pig. It’s described as “a place where bacon lovers can connect, talk, taste, write, post, inspire, design, win, view, vote, like, upload, download, create, in?uence, and share their passion.” Sounds like a good place to me!

From bacon and egg stuffed biscuits to bacon and beer pairings (YES!) to videos on how to make the infamous bacon weave taco, they have it all covered. There’s even a 2014 calendar listing exclusively bacon-centric events. Now you can stop going to all those boring non-bacon-centric summer parties!

Yes, there are offline benefits to being in the Bacon Club as well — you can sign up to purchase Farmland’s Bacon of the Month, which delivers a new bacon to your doorstep once every month.

Follow @FarmlandFoods on Twitter for more up-to-the-minute bacon fun or go straight to the Farmland Bacon Club here.

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Food Porn Champion: Rolo Cheesecake Bars

God I love it when food drools right back at you.

Recipe: Rolo cheesecake bars by Hugs and Cookies XOXO

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Green Chili Mac Attack

From mac and cheese with lobster to mac and cheese burgers, mac and cheese hot dogs and more, there’s not much we get more excited about here at ES than good ol’ elbows and cheez product. (Who wants to write up the 100 ways to mac and cheese post?!?)

This new take comes from Mexicue, one of my favorite NYC restaurants, and mixes some serious spice up in yo’ mac.

Green Chili Mac and Cheese

Nutty Jalapeño Chicken Stuffed Peppers

Ya”ll know we love to cook with some peanut butter here at the simmer, so I got pretty excited when I saw that the Southern Peanut Growers conducted its first “PB My Way” regional recipe contest, calling for the craziest, funnest, must surprising peanut butter recipes from around the country.

This winning recipe, submitted by Lori McLain of Denton, Texas, is the kind of idea what makes online casino australia people who hate PB say “WHY would you do that?” and people who love it shout GENIUS.

Sign me up for the latter category.