Feeding My Passion

Although I’ve been doing a few of the 98.3 The Coast “Cooking with the Diva” radio/video podcast shows recently, it’s really Watty’s (that’s what most everyone calls Chef Tom Watson) show, and he’s been nice enough to let me do it. Last Tuesday, he was feeling very poorly, so he asked me to do it. Not exactly expecting it and I froze for a second before stammering out “Sssure!” Fortunately the recipe was very simple, a delicious tomato gratin with toasted hazelnuts, thyme and fresh mozzarella. It turned out pretty well, I even had time to go back to the Port to do some research on the best wine for this dish and grab a couple bottles of what we had at the restaurant. During one of the commercial breaks, I looked up the origin of the word “gratin” (on my super cool new Samsung m800) and was able to talk about that before the end of the show. Excellent!

The story about the gratin is interesting, so I’ll tell it soon.

Video after the jump.

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