Grande Marnier Souffle and Chocolate Sauce
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Jeffrey Buben
Chef / Owner, Vidalia and Bistro Bis Restaurants
202-659-1990 or 202-661-2700
info@vidaliadc.com
Winner of the James Beard Foundation's "Best Chef Mid-Atlantic 1999", Jeffrey Buben is the chef and owner of two prestigious restaurants in Washington, D.C., Vidalia and Bistro Bis. Acknowledged by Bon Appétit as one of the "Best New Restaurants of 1993," Vidalia has garnered both local and national recognition with its regional American cooking delivered with Southern hospitality.
Renovated in the summer of 2003, Vidalia has consistently been awarded three stars since October 2003 from the Washington Post food critic, Tom Sietsema and top honors by Washingtonian Magazine's "Top 100" list since 1994. Vidalia has also been the recipient of the prestigious DiRona award by the Distinguished Restaurants of North America each year since 1996. The restaurant's wine program has received the Wine Spectator's "Best of Award of Excellence" 2005, 2006 and 2007 and the Wine Enthusiast's "Award of Distinction" in January 2006. A vote by America Online users named Vidalia as the number one restaurant in the "City's Best Restaurants 2007."
The fall of 1998 heralded the arrival of Buben's second restaurant, Bistro Bis located at the Hotel George on Capitol Hill. Bis features creative contemporary French bistro cooking with updated renditions of classic fare. Bis was voted one of "Washington's Best New Restaurants to Watch" by Washingtonian Magazine in 1999. Washingtonian's "Top 100" in 2007 listed Bistro Bis in the top third of the city and the restaurant has been included in the magazine's "Top 100 Restaurants" since 2002. The Washington Post has recognized Bis in numerous years as a top dining destination and applauded for the "best onion soup" in the area. Nominated since 2005 by the Restaurant Association of Metropolitan Washington for "Restaurant Power Spot," Bis continues to be the place "Where Capitol Hill Dines." The Mobil Travel Guide, AOL City's Best consistently rank Bistro Bis in the top tier as "Best Hot Spot Restaurant" and as a "Power Lunch destination.
Jeffrey Buben is a 1978 graduate of The Culinary Institute of America and has served on the school's alumni board of directors. With over 20 years in the industry, he has worked in such notable restaurants as The Sign of the Dove, Le Cygne and Le Chantilly in New York and at several distinguished hotels including The Four Seasons, The Mayflower and The Hotel Pierre. Voted "Chef of the Year" in 1996 by The Restaurant Association of Metropolitan Washington, Jeff continues to work tirelessly to contribute to many different charitable organizations including Share Our Strength, Food & Friends and the Wine Advocate Fund for Philanthropy to name a few.
Jeffrey is a partner with his wife Sallie in the Fully-Baked Restaurant Group, which owns and manages Vidalia Restaurant and Bistro Bis in Washington, D.C.
Grande Marnier Souffle and Chocolate Sauce
Jeffery Buben: Hi! My name is Jeffrey Buben, Chef/Owner of Vidalia Restaurant and Bistro Bis in Washington DC. We're getting ready to prepare our finale Grand Marnier Souffl with Decadent Chocolate Sauce for our romantic valentine's dinner. For it, you'll need orange marmalade, Grand Marnier, a little champagne of your choosing, some sugar and egg white.
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Jeffery Buben: Hi! My name is Jeffrey Buben, Chef/Owner of Vidalia Restaurant and Bistro Bis in Washington DC. We're getting ready to prepare our finale Grand Marnier Souffl with Decadent Chocolate Sauce for our romantic valentine's dinner. For it, you'll need orange marmalade, Grand Marnier, a little champagne of your choosing, some sugar and egg white. You will need four one cup Souffl bowls, a pan spray of butter, cocoa powder and bitter sweet chocolate with three-quarter cups of water. We're going to take our Souffl bowls, and we're going to spray those with a butter spray, nice and liberally so we make sure we get the sides and the bottom, so the Souffl won't stick. We're going to take a little bit of the sugar, about a quarter cup sugar and we are going to put it in the mold, take the sugar and wind it around the sides so we coat all parts of the mold. Do the same thing. We're going to transfer it right to the next mold. We're going to preheat our oven to 400 degrees, and then prepare our base. That quarter of sugar, place that in there. We have a half cup of orange marmalade, any kind of marmalade, whatever your flavor is. To that, we're going to add two tablespoons of Grand Marnier, one tablespoon of champagne, and we're going to mix that base. It can't get much simpler than that. Now, we're going to take our eggs, separate our eggs. It's best to have your eggs at room temperature. So take them out of the refrigerator a little early for this recipe. We're going to do it in the KitchenAid. So we're going to take a wire whisk on that. We're going to add our egg whites. We're going to add one quarter cup of granulated sugar. Put that down, lock the bowl in place and we're going to whip them on high, until they've reached between the soft and heavy peaks. It takes about 4-6 minutes. Remove the wire whisk. Make sure we get all the egg whites, and there you see you have nice, stiff peak. Okay. Then we're going to gently fold our base into the whites. We don't want to overwork it. Just take and move the bowl round, fold it over. We take our mold that we prepared. Fill our molds. We'll just bring that down a little bit. Flatten that across. Just take your thumb, and run your thumb around the collar of the bowl, just to keep it clean like that. We have our oven preheated to 400 degrees. We're going to place them in the oven on the bottom right for about 8-10 minutes. Once we close that door, we'll set our timer for 8 minutes, we'll check them. Don't open that door until the 8 minutes are up. Okay, we're going to prepare a very simple Decadent Chocolate Sauce. We're going to add our water, three-quarter cup of water into the sauce pan. We're going to bring that up over medium-high heat. Add the cocoa powder, all at once, and sugar in order for it to mix in without lumping. Stir it very rapidly to get it to dissolve as quickly as possible. We'll get that a minute on the heat. Okay, our sugar and cocoa is dissolved in the water. We're going to bring that up to one quick boil. Remove it from the heat. We're ready to start whisking in our chocolate. The chocolate only takes about a minute to dissolve, and there you have a Decadent Bitter Sweet chocolate sauce. Okay. We just pulled our Grand Marnier Souffl out of the oven, 10 minutes exactly. The thing is now we have to serve them immediately. We're going to take our Decadent Chocolate Sauce, pour them into a little liquor glass. You can do two things. You can pour that on to the Souffl, or you can have it as a little chorizo on the side. Make a little hole in the center of your Souffl; pour your chocolate sauce out. We're going to finish our Souffl with the little confectionery sugar. And there you have it, our elegant finished or romantic valentine's dinner, Grand Marnier Souffl, Decadent Chocolate Sauce. Enjoy it.
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