The Gothic Gourmet's podcast

If you have a few key ingredients, you have the ability to make a Main Course in Minutes. The Gothic Gourmet tells you how. This episode is Chicken Piccata.

*** Mise en place
Thawed chicken breasts
Dredging pan (flour, salt, pepper)
White wine or chicken stock
2 teaspoons of capers (with splash of caper juice)
juice of 1/2 lemon
2 oz. Heavy cream
1 teaspoon of Demi-glaze (optional)

This serves about two. Adjust for more servings and remember... it doesn't have to be exact!

***"Mise en place" is a cooking term that means all ingredients measured and in place.

The Gothic Gourmet presents basic elements of food presentation. Designed to help you see, taste, think, and design a more appealing and balanced meal.

Ideas presented include colors, content, shapes, temperature, and more.

Photo from epicurious.com

Nicolas Poussin (15 June 1594 – 19 November 1665) was a French painter in the classical style. His painting "Et in Arcadia ego" was featured in the book, "Holy Blood, Holy Grail" - the tale of which was so interesting that it inspired The Gothic Gourmet to write this poem.

"Poussin's Grave" is a doomy poem and as such seemed especially fitted for a doom piece of music though in its original context it fits securely in the Classical style much like the painter himself.

"Poussin's Grave" was read in grim voice by The Gothic Gourmet.
Music was written and performed by Patrick Golden.

 Hear The Gothic Gourmet as she tells of the true encounter she had with her doppleganger. Listeners are encouraged to comment or email their own experiences and to ponder the question: which one is the "evil" twin?

The Gothic Gourmet has a very lovely friend, Sari from Las Palmas, Spain, who wrote an endearing and enduring blog about Dragonflies in April, 2006. Listen as TGG reflects on Dragonflies and Awareness, then see if you, too, will believe.

The following is a love poem from November 14th, 2006. It was written, and is here now read, by Patrick Golden, co-owner of GothicGourmet.com.

The title is simple, A Poem, but the words are a response to a life well lived. The Gothic Gourmet wrote this in November, 2006 and reads it here out loud for the first time.