AOC is a restaurant that had been on my "To-Dine" list from the moment opened in LA. However, it took me this long to finally get over there. The restaurant has a nice setup with bar-seating at either the wine bar or the cheese bar, and regular seating in a fairly small dining room. I enjoyed the meal, I enjoyed the cheese, and I enjoyed the wine. But the thing that made my head spin faster than the Rock Steady Crew was the tiny silver saucer of bacon-wrapped dates stuffed with parmesan cheese. Now that I'm comfortbale with bacon-wrapping, I want to make these at home.
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1-05-2006 @ 2:37PM
Kitty said...
These are my absolute favorite :)
Gourmet published the actual recipe Suzanne uses just a couple of months ago - I make these all the time and they always elicit the aformentioned head-spinning.
Here's a link to the recipe:
http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/recipe_views/views/232778
Enjoy!
poetkitty
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1-05-2006 @ 4:37PM
Chris said...
The link is no good -> (but damn the dates sound awesome, I would love to surprise my wife with those)
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1-05-2006 @ 7:51PM
Kevin said...
We tried some of these (minus the parmesan cheese though) at a tapas restaurant outside of Chicago. Amazing! Sweet, salty, and um... well... bacon. You just can't go wrong.
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1-06-2006 @ 1:08AM
Adam Fields said...
I've had these at a few places in NYC. They have great ones at Sala.
I like to make them filled with goat cheese and a whole roasted almond in the middle.
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1-06-2006 @ 1:20AM
sarah said...
the almond in the middle sounds awesome
i kinda think that using blue cheese would be good, too, something really strong to offset the uber-sticky sweetness of the dates.
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