Something magical occurs when you reheat a baguette. Even the most pedestrian (even day old) baguettes become perfectly crusty and delicious. It is truly magical.
I learned this trick from my friend Lucien, the famous chef. Back in the day, we would bring customers into our KFI culinary center to sell them Kraft Ingredients. Lucien would buy baguettes at Costco. He would serve the baguettes reheated to customers and get rave reviews. Customers thought the baguettes were from one of Lucien’s secret family recipes from the south of France. So we didn’t tell them about Costco, but the bread was magical.
(Lucien and Paul having fun in the kitchen)
Today I am using this trick to stage virtual wine group zoom sessions during the pandemic. I have been making baguettes and using them as a center piece for a fun evening.
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Outline Of A Virtual Wine Group Proposal
- Date: Saturday January 9 at 6 pm
- PK (and the “baguette fairy” to provide baguettes and pesto in the afternoon
- 5:30 AC and SH reheat baguettes
- 6:00 we get together virtually via zoom with baguettes and a bottle
This also works if you don’t have a “baguette fairy” in the neighborhood. Trust me, you can buy the baguettes (and the wine) at Costco, tell everyone that the baguette is from a secret family recipe from the south of France. If you reheat the baguette for 6 to 8 minutes in a 400 degree oven…magic will occur.
Grandson Declan as the “Baguette Fairy”
By the way…The magic gets even better after a second bottle of wine
The “Baguette Fairy” destroying the evidence to protect his grandfather
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