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Imagine a quiet candlelight dinner with the one you love, or a lazy Sunday brunch for two.
The ambience, the artful preparation, the anticipation of delightful tastes, both familiar and different, all merge together to indulge the senses and help create a complete romantic experience.
Whether it is a exquisite repast featuring rack of lamb or an easy-to-prepare dish like a salmon tartar, you will find all the elements in Two for Tonight for a culinary experience that is sure to heat up your relationship.
They know romance at L'Auberge Chez François. Nestled on a quiet back road in Great Falls, Virginia, this French country inn has, since 1976, offered an extraordinary and memorable culinary experience for those fortunate enough to visit. The readers of Washingtonian magazine have acclaimed it their favorite restaurant for sixteen consecutive years. And those same readers have recognized L'Auberge Chez François as the most romantic place to dine in the Washington, D.C. region.
Jacques Haeringer, Francois' eldest son and chef de cuisine at L'Auberge Chez François, will show you how to bring that same sensual experience to your own home. Add sparkle to your love life, make a special occasion unforgettable, impress a charming new friend.
With Jacques' guidance, your meals will be wholesome and nourishing. Using the purest ingredients will not only result in better tasting and more nutritious cuisine, but enhance the vitality and stamina needed for a vibrant life.
Two for Tonight is about more than just good food. Rather than prepare the entire meal in advance, bring your special someone into the kitchen and put the finishing touches together right before their eyes--the same way a fine restaurant prepares your meal. Everything will look and taste its freshest.
Compliment the mood by invoking exciting locales and anecdotes of interesting and even erotic foods. You will find all this inside Two for Tonight.
Add a little wine and a touch of your own imagination, and you are ready to explore the endless romantic possibilities.
Here's what some have to say about Two for Tonight and L'Auberge Chez François:
"Your restaurant is the very best for a romantic anniversary or special occasion. The food has no parallel and the setting is fabulous. You are in a class by yourself."
--Dick Gephardt, Democratic Leader, House of Representatives
"L'Auberge Chez François has been our special, romantic getaway spot in every season."
--Bob and Olga Ryan, NBC-4 Chief Meteorologist
"Why would I write a blurb for the back of a cookbook? How else am I going to get a reservation at L'Auberge Chez François?"
--Ted Koppel, ABC News Nightline
"We have been patronizing L'Auberge Chez François for over twenty years and always find it amazing that the service remains impeccable, the food exquisite and the ambiance warm and inviting. Bravo Jacques! Your new book is another tour de force."
--Roland Mesnier, White House Executive Pastry Chef
"Nothing is more romantic than dinner for two in the L'Auberge Chez François garden. It is European dining without the airplane trip."
--Newt Gingrich, Former Speaker of the House of Representatives
"When Betsy and I are looking for a really romantic evening, we start at L'Auberge Chez François!"
--Oliver North, Author and Political Commentator
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Heartwise cooking is double entendre - Defining "heartwise" a different way,
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This review is from: Two for Tonight: Pure Romance from L'Auberge Chez Francois (Hardcover)
Calling attention to the relationship between love and food, between the heart and the palate, restauranteur Jacques E. Haeringer in his book Two for Tonight (Bartleby Press, 2001) has compiled recipes grouped under such enticing chapter headings as "Breakfast in Bed," "Love in the Afternoon" and "After Midnight," to name a few. His intent is to supply the reader with recipes that create a sensuous mood or as his publicist says, "to heat up a relationship.""The pleasures of the table, fine food and wine, are an essential part of a passionate life," Haeringer writes in his introduction before revealing recipes for "scrambled eggs" (okay with caviar) to quail stuffed with foie gras which he maintains will bring out the "wild streak we all have inside." Maybe, not all the ingredients are readily available away from areas of sophistication but just reading about them seems to tempt the palate. Anticipation is a catalyst to romance. Haeringer also stresses that preparing a romantic meal does not infer that it isn't going to be heart healthy. He suggests making it "as wholesome and nourishing as possible." While he says he tries to use organically grown produce, meat and poultry, he doesn't fault any cook from straying from this choice. He does recommend using pure water, steaming not boiling vegetables, using whole grains and flours, avoiding the use of white sugar, choosing extra virgin olive oil or other cold pressed oils and unprocessed salt like sea salt or mineral salt. One recipe, citrus salad, calling for the use of ginger which he says is credited with "aiding digestion, improving circulation and even protecting against motion sickness" appears as a fitting conclusion to one of his Love in the Afternoon menu selections. "When you have the choice follow the suggestions" (in the book) but the author says, "if you worry about every bite and every sip, stress will kill you long before cholesterol." By the way, this obviously is not a book for vegans. "Despite all the warnings of past decades, we have now returned to our senses and realize that, for most of us, red meat is an essential component of our diets," Haeringer says. "After all, we did not claw our way to the top of the food chain to eat only vegetables." ...oh my, I just spotted the recipe for Beef Wellington with roasted shiittake mushrooms...yum. No cookbook, especially one dealing with the subject of love, is not complete without recipes using chocolate. Chef Haeringer does not disappoint, especially with his recipe for molten chocolate cake which he prefaces with a little blurb about how the Aztec ruler Montezuma kept his harem of several hundred women happy by "reportedly drinking 50 cups of chocolate daily." The wonderfully tempting color photographs, easy to follow recipes (including the section on how to make the sauces that go into them) and a bibliography for further reading make "Two for Tonight" a must for any good cook's bookshelf. by Mari Winn - Complete review appears on The Joplin Independent online
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Where do you even find this stuff?,
This review is from: Two for Tonight: Pure Romance from L'Auberge Chez Francois (Hardcover)
While this book has some really fancy-pants ideas, unless you are a real foodie, you're not going to like this.
There are some really amazing, really inspired, really... french dishes in here that I'd love to make, but really don't feel like roaming the store trying to find. I go through the book and it's really a plan-ahead thing to use. Unless you have stuff like quail, rack of lamb, 3 kinds of mushroom and shallots in your fridge, making anything out of here is gonna take some planning. That being said, they're not difficult dishes per se... just really imposing. If you can get past how intimidating they look you CAN make some amazing things, but really consider yourself... are you going to use it more than once, or is it going to sit on the shelf collecting dust like the other stuff. If you're a foodie, or at least a wanna-be foodie, go for it.
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