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Amy Riolo

Author, Cooking Instructor, Food Writer, Culinary Consultant

http://www.amyriolo.com/  

Amy Riolo is an internationally recognized culinary expert specializing in Middle Eastern and Mediterranean culture and cuisine. As a cookbook author, lecturer, food historian, food writer, culinary consultant, and cooking instructor, Amy promotes her philosophy of cooking and living with both pleasure and health. Her first book, Arabian Delights; Recipes & Princely Entertaining Ideas from the Arabian Peninsula has received rave reviews (Capital Books). Her second book Nile Style; Egyptian Cuisine and Culture (Hippocrene Books) will be released in spring 2009. She is also completing The Mediterranean Diabetes Cookbook, (American Diabetes Association) which will be released in spring 2010.

Amy’s popular lectures range in topics and include everything from Middle Eastern business etiquette to the history of various cuisines. She has been an invited guest speaker for the Embassy of the Arab Republic of Egypt, Welcome to Washington International, Montgomery College, Les Dames D’Escoffier, The Baltimore-Luxor-Alexandria Sister City Committee and the Mycological Association of Washington, DC. Amy also makes frequent appearances on numerous television and radio programs both in the United States and Egypt including Fox TV, Montgomery and Fairfax County TV, Nile TV and WHYY.           

Amy currently writes the “Culture and Cuisine” feature for the Baltimore- Luxor-Alexandria Sister City Committee. She has also written articles for Cooking Light Magazine, Azizah Magazine, and the Kulanu newsletter. A graduate of Cornell University, Amy has experience in vocational, recreational, and children’s instruction, as well as corporate team building and cultural/culinary events. Her knowledge of the Italian, French, Spanish, and Arabic languages has enabled her to interpret many cultures and cuisines with intimacy and ease. She regularly teaches cooking classes at Sur la Table in Arlington, Virginia, and for private organizations.

A successful culinary consultant, Amy enjoys developing menus, recipes, training seminars, and themes for corporations, restaurants, and hotels. Amy is often asked to work as a consultant for museums where she creates menus and décor which represent the theme of new collections. In addition, she works with curators to incorporate sensory components like scent, touch, and taste into the schedule of events, allowing museum patrons to fully experience each exhibit.

Amy is a member of The International Association of Culinary Professionals, Culinary Historians of Washington, Les Dames d’Escoffier, Slow Food DC, Welcome to Washington International (where she co-chairs the Gourmet Committee), Cornell Club of Washington, the Women’s National Book Association, and the Baltimore – Luxor – Alexandria Sister City Committee (Where she is the chairperson of the Baltimore Friends of the Alexandria Library). Amy is based in the Washington DC, area and maintains a home in Egypt. She is currently organizing culinary tours to both the Mediterranean and Middle East.

Making Cucumber & String Bean Salad with Olive Tapenade Dressing

Chef Amy Riolo demonstrates how to make a cucumber, string bean and olive tapenade.

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Making Cucumber & String Bean Salad with Olive Tapenade Dressing

Ingredients

For the Salad:

1/3 cup Farmers Market string beans, trimmed

1 pound Farmers Market cucumbers

1/4 cup Harris Teeter black olives such as Gaeta or Kalamata, pitted

2 tablespoons freshly squeezed lemon juice

1/4 teaspoon freshly ground pepper

2 tablespoons H.T. Traders extra virgin olive oil

For the burgers:

1 pound Harris Teeter extra lean ground turkey

1 tablespoon Harris Teeter Dijon mustard

1/2 cup Farmers Market dill, finely chopped

1/4 teaspoon kosher salt

Few twists freshly ground pepper

2 tablespoons H.T. Traders extra virgin olive oil

4 ounces crumbled low fat feta cheese

4 fresh Harris Teeter whole wheat buns

Instructions

1. Preheat the oven to 425F degrees. Bring a pot of water to boil over high heat and add the string beans. Cook until tender, drain, and place beans in a bowl of cold water.

 

2. Split the cucumbers lengthwise, remove and discard the seeds using a spoon. Dice the cucumbers and place in a large bowl. Place olives, lemon juice, pepper, and olive oil in food processor and mix to combine. Add string beans to the cucumbers and spoon olive paste over the top.  Mix to combine and serve.

 

3. To make the burgers, combine ground turkey, Dijon mustard, dill, salt, and pepper in a large bowl. Stir with a wooden spoon or your hands to combine. Divide the meat into 4 equal portions and form them into patties. 

 

4. Heat oil in a large oven proof skillet over medium heat. Add burgers and sauté for 2 to 3 minutes per side, or until brown. Transfer to the oven and cook for 15 minutes, or until cooked through.

 

5. Top with feta cheese, and cook for another 5 minutes or until cheese is melted. Serve in whole wheat buns, with salad.

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Amy Riolo: Hi! I am Amy Riolo and I am working in the kitchen today at Sur La Table in Arlington, Virginia. And I am making dill and feta stuffed turkey burgers with cucumber, string beans and olive tapenade salad. So let's begin by blanching our string beans. The first thing that we are going to do is have a pot of water which is boiling rapidly. Then we are going to add a little bit of kosher salt to our water, just to season it. Then we are going to add in our beans. You can use regular beans, string beans, French haricot vert, whatever you prefer, it's okay. We are just going to let them cook for about two to three minutes until they get tender. As soon as they tender we are going to remove them from the water and place them in a bath of cold water. Now well our beans are boiling we can go ahead and make our tapenade for the dressing in our salad. And what we are going to need to do that is a quarter of cup of petted black olives. The Gaeta brand or the Kalamata work really fine. You want to have something that's nice and flavorful. So now we will add our olive oil. The word tapenade comes from an ancient provincial word, Tapena, which means to cover. And this has been something that's been around since antiquity, very common dressing in the province region of France. I just added our two tablespoons of freshly squeezed lemon juice. And we have to add a little bit of salt, not too much, because remember the olives have brine in them. So we don't need very much, and a little bit of freshly ground pepper. And then I will just put the food processor on and whisk everything together. So that looks fine now. And just to recap I have used about two tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil. Which you can do it to taste or to texture. And it will depend a little bit on the brand of the olives that you use. But when you want to have is this kind of a texture right here where it is not completely a paste. It's still a little bit more liquid than a paste. This is going to work absolutely perfectly for dressing, and I have got my string beans which have just finished blanching. So I am going to take them out of the boiling water, and put them right into a bath of really cold water. And this is just going to shock them and make them stop cooking and that way they won't be hot when we add them to our salad. So it won't affect our cucumbers at all. You want them to be still little bit crunchy. So here are olive oil, string beans. And now we've got them in the bath and we've cooled them down. We can just transfer them into another bowl. So if you ever see blanching in a cookbook, you will know what they are referring to. This is a great salad. It has a lot of color, it has a lot of flavor and it's interesting. I think a lot of times when we make a burger, we think about serving with fries and so that already sets this up because you have to have something that's high in carbohydrate and then you have to have something that's fried. So if you can think about something else that's really interesting and has a lot of different flavors to it and a nice visual presentation to take the place of the French fries, that's half the battle, and it's going to have interesting too instead of always just the same lettuce and tomato and cucumber. So I am just now drying these off because we want them not to be too wet because we want our tapenade to be able to adhere to them. So now I am putting these on top of our cucumbers. And just to recap, these are two cucumbers which I have cut in half length-wise and scooped out the seeds and then I have diced them. And it's a very rough dice, you can see. You can do whatever you are comfortable with. And then we have our green beans, and now I am going to add in our tapenade. This is so simple but it's really good, and in addition to serving it with these burgers it will taste great with a grilled meat or you could add leftover meat to this salad, and may be some croûtons, and you would have kind of like a meal type of a salad. I am just going to add just a little bit of salt and you can taste it, and see if you need more salt or freshly ground pepper. So there we have it. And in the next segment I will be making our dill and feta stuffed turkey burgers.

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