Tom Colicchio Makes a Drink for Vampires

by Sara Bonisteel, Posted Jun 16th 2009 @ 2:30PM

We were wondering what to serve for our weekly viewing party of that guilty little pleasure "True Blood." Chef Tom Colicchio has the answer.

Fresh from his Diet Coke ad, the Craft-y chef has done a campy viral video for the HBO vampire series, making a drink to satiate Colicchio's vampire pals while the "Top Chef" host dines out.

"I have a few friends that are vampires and I've had this issue," Colicchio tells the host of the fake show "The Perspective." We go out, and I'm sitting there through an appetizer, an entree and dessert, and they're just kind of nursing a Tru Blood [the blood substitute vampires drink on the show]. It's a little awkward."

Read on for the very non-Bon Temps recipe.

"I've come up with this way to get your meal in a drink," Colicchio says before making an elixir of star anise, mustard seed, fennel seed, licorice root, chamomile, parsley and a little bit of thyme steeped in hot chicken stock in a French press.

He then blends roasted sugar snap peas, fennel, fava beans and roasted spring onions into a puree which he combines with the elixir and a beet juice reduction.

"I have a little saying that if it grows together it goes together," Colicchio says. "Things that come out of the ground at the same time usually have a natural affinity for each other."

Just like the vampires.

[Via Eater]

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