Celebrity Chef Holidays: Mario Batali
As a part of our Celebrity Chefs Holiday series, some of America's best-known chefs and food television personalities share their favorite holiday dishes, provide recipes for them, and even tell us who will be at their holiday tables. Today we talk to Mario Batali.
What are you doing for Thanksgiving this year? Who's going to be there? What is the menu going to be? We're going to my sister-in-law's house with my wife Susi's family. I do not know the menu. It's really fun to go to somebody else's house and just enjoy the holiday.
Could you share a favorite Thanksgiving recipe with the Serious Eats community? My Goat Cheese Truffle recipe. It's good any time of the year, but somehow it just feels right to serve it at Thanksgiving.
What's your favorite part of the Christmas meal and why? The smell of the tree and the feeling in the house of pure fun lead me to the best cooking. I love the Christmas ham I bake in my wood burning oven in Michigan and the biscuits and truffle honey I serve them with.
What are you doing for Christmas day and/or the holidays this year? Who's going to be there? What is the menu going to be? We will be in Michigan for Christmas and Sun Valley for New Year's. For Christmas the guests will be friends from our little town in Michigan. We will be cooking New Orleans-style dishes from Emeril's books. For New Year's we'll just be hanging out with Susi's friends from college and their family. My sons love snow and skiing and everything that goes along with them.
Could you share your favorite Christmas recipe with the Serious Eats community? Here's three recipes that I invariably make during the holidays. Asking me to choose my favorite between them is impossible. You can't go wrong with any of them, in fact. Happy Holidays, everyone. --Mario
Mario Batali's Holiday Recipes
Goat Cheese Truffle
Linguine with Clams
Tortelloni with Fonduta
Related
Mario's new PBS show also starring Gwyneth Paltrow and Mark Bittman
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7 Comments:
i think mario was photoshopped in that picture... or it was taken years ago... i've been watching him on that journey across spain show and he's a little hefty, a damn great cook, but hefty...
suburbangourmet at 4:01PM on 11/05/08
Looks like that book was published in 2000...so the picture is from at least 8 years ago I guess.
wunami at 4:29PM on 11/05/08
As many serious eaters have pointed out, my photo on Serious Eats is hopelessly dated. Isn't that one of the great things about published photos? You can send yourself hurtling back through time.
Ed Levine at 4:40PM on 11/05/08
Cool feature! Maybe there will be more chefs featured for the holidays? Fingers crossed...
I'd hate to be in the public eye and have everyone dissecting each pound gained and lost. It's probably worse for famous women because a couple of hearty meals can lead to "Is she or isn't she" pregnancy rumors. Eek.
holdthemayo at 5:13PM on 11/05/08
Okay, well I guess I should have scrolled down one more story and I would have known...Uncrossing fingers now. :)
Looking forward to the remaining chefs!
holdthemayo at 5:14PM on 11/05/08
I actually made, and posted about, that linguine and clams recipe very recently. It was positively addicting.
alosha7777 at 12:46AM on 11/11/08
I saw the iron chef last night (12/14/08) and would love to have the Zuppa recipe that you created with cranberries - can't find it on the site - anyway you can share it - had pannetone (sp???) which sounded wonderful for a change - thanks
ayoungnana at 3:52PM on 12/15/08