{"id":5589,"date":"2016-01-02T23:21:44","date_gmt":"2016-01-02T23:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/?p=5589"},"modified":"2016-01-04T00:20:24","modified_gmt":"2016-01-04T00:20:24","slug":"welcome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/welcome\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Lamb-Cassoulet.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5591\" src=\"http:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Lamb-Cassoulet-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Lamb Cassoulet\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Lamb-Cassoulet-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Lamb-Cassoulet.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 85vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>With great excitement, ChezHelvetica welcomed beloved family to a celebration for the New Year! The centerpiece dish &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gregnormanestateswine.com\/recipes\/pesto-lamb-chop\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mint-Pistachio Pesto Crusted Australian Lamb Chops Over White Bean &#8211;<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/TableBefore.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-5602\" src=\"http:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/TableBefore-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"TableBefore\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gregnormanestateswine.com\/recipes\/pesto-lamb-chop\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wild Mushroom Cassoulet<\/a>\u00a0(just learned at the Culinary Arts Center onboard Holland America Line&#8217;s Noordam) was a perfect family project. Sous Chef Niece Rachel saut\u00e9d Garlic, Onion, Carrots, Celery, Wild (Shiitake, Oyster, Cremini) Mushrooms, Tomatoes, Herbs and Cannelini Beans in one pan and fresh Ciabatta Bread Crumbs and Pecorino Cheese in another. Dark Chicken Meat spiced with Smoked Paprika and Bacon Salt replaced the Pancetta called for in the recipe. Sister Abby artfully plated the Meze dishes including <em>Sabra<\/em>\u00a0Pine Nut Hummus and Yotam Ottelenghi&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.athoughtforfood.net\/burnt-eggplant-with-lemon-garlic-and-pomegranate-seeds\/\" target=\"_blank\">Burnt Eggplant with Lemon and Garlic.<\/a>\u00a0Brother-in-Law Michael helped carve the Lamb Racks and Niece Aliya assisted in dessert-course table setting. A<a href=\"http:\/\/www.somethingswanky.com\/snickerdoodle-chess-pie\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Snickerdoodle Chess Pie<\/a> announced Sweet &#8217;16 to All!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/LambPesto.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-5595\" src=\"http:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/LambPesto-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"LambPesto\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/LambPesto-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/LambPesto-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/LambPesto.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 85vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Meze2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-5610\" src=\"http:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Meze2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Meze2\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Meze2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Meze2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Meze2.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 85vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Sweet-16.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-5607\" src=\"http:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Sweet-16-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Sweet '16\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Sweet-16-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Sweet-16-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Sweet-16.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 85vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With great excitement, ChezHelvetica welcomed beloved family to a celebration for the New Year! The centerpiece dish &#8211;\u00a0Mint-Pistachio Pesto Crusted Australian Lamb Chops Over White Bean &#8211;\u00a0Wild Mushroom Cassoulet\u00a0(just learned at the Culinary Arts Center onboard Holland America Line&#8217;s Noordam) was a perfect family project. Sous Chef Niece Rachel saut\u00e9d Garlic, Onion, Carrots, Celery, Wild &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/welcome\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Welcome!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[310,311,312],"class_list":["post-5589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-post","tag-holland-america-line","tag-sabra","tag-yotam-ottelenghi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5589"}],"version-history":[{"count":39,"href":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5634,"href":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5589\/revisions\/5634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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