Project Foodie - Happy in the Kitchen: Carmel Citronelle

Happy in the Kitchen: Carmel Citronelle – oh my!

Written by foodie pam

Thursday, 24 January 2008

They say timing is everything, and in this case I was spot on or rather Husband was. As I recently mentioned, Husband and I have selected numerous recipes from Michel Richard’s “Happy in the Kitchen” to create. I say create because many of these recipes are multi-day activities and yield (or at least hopefully will) restaurant quality dishes. When we decided to embark on this activity I commented that we should shoot for one meal a month from the cookbook which roughly translates to one weekend a month of “Happy in the Kitchen” cooking (and hopefully eating!). I even teased “and then we could go to Citronelle for dinner to celebrate”. Of course we live in San Jose, CA and Citronelle is in Washington, DC so this would be a rather far distance to travel for dinner – even if it is a Michele Richard dinner. But that brings me back to timing. I just learned that next month Michel Richard is opening a West Coast Citronelle in Carmel just under two hours south of us! Well, that settles it – once we’ve cooked the year of Happy in the Kitchen we are going to Citronelle and we’ll not only be Happy in the Kitchen but also happily eating the real thing! I can’t wait!

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Sue (Unregistered) 2008-01-29 20:46:30

Where in Carmel will Citronelle be located?

pam (Publisher) 2008-01-30 11:31:35

Sue - The Carmel Citronelle will be in Carmel Valley Ranch a recently renovated resort. I don't know the exact date they open but it is sometime in February. You can read more about it here

pam (Publisher) 2008-02-29 10:49:21

I'm not exactly sure how Greek Yogurt differs from European style. Ive found the European style at both Trader Joe's and Whole Foods. If you can't find European style then I'd try Greek Yogurt - and then let us know how it tastes!