Ludo à la Maison - Blinis with crème fraiche and caviar, Grey Goose martini

Christmas is my favorite holidays. Christmas in France is a big deal. The holidays are great. You know, you have all the family together. People getting drunk. Uncle Joe is drunk. You know, and here we go again. You know, that's what is Christmas in France. So I'm going to show you how to do a Grey Goose Martini. Then after I'm going to show you how to do Venice caviar and creme fraiche to go with this cocktail. When I was at the house of Grey Goose, we drink a lot Grey Goose Martini. Before, I was not a big fan of Martini. I was not a good cocktail guy. But now I would say I drink more cocktail and less wine. You know, I'm not a real French because I'm an open mind. Grey Goose Vodka. Two ounce and a half. Half ounce of Dermot. One dash of orange bitter. Ice. So as you can see, I put a lot of ice to dilute it. Okay, we're going to stir for 10 seconds. It's not that easy to stir it, trust me. It's not. Pour here the Martini. It's crazy how it becomes so thicker now. That's beautiful. Lemon zest. Just squeeze a little bit of lemon like this. Get some flavor here. And after you just drop it like this. Look at this beauty. Clear. Love it. It's good. Very refreshing. Very light. You taste the Grey Goose Vodka. A little touch of Vermouth behind. Lemon. That's great. But be careful. Drink with moderation. You don't want to be the drunk uncle. Uncle Joe. Everybody have somebody who drink too much in the family. Yeah. Now I have a great cocktail. It's time to make the Blinis now. Okay, cheers. Today I did more like a festive. Because the holiday season now. What's the best thing with vodka for me? Of course. Everybody know. Caviar. Bon. Now we're going to do the Potato Blinis. We need a russet potato. They are cooked in salted water until they are soft. See? Once the knife go inside. They are soft. So we peel them. So make sure when you peel them they are still warm. You know why? That's the way they teach me in France. So I do that. So easy. You see that? Welcome to Ludois la Maison. That's where I give you all the tricks for cooking. We mash the potato. Okay. Bon, okay. We mash the potato like this. I'm going to add my milk. A little bit of salt. And we're going to add the flour. So mix very well. And now we're going to add our eggs. Okay. Put here. Here. Now I'm going to mix. It's going to be like a potato pancake. And now I'm going to add my egg white. Voila. We use clarified butter. Because you know it takes a little bit long time to cook. So clarified butter is better. Because we take off the milk from the butter. So like this the butter don't burn. Okay. Make sure your clarified butter is very hot. Okay. And now we're going to pour our potato blenisse here. So it's going to rise a little bit. Voila. So it's exactly like when you cook a pancake. A pancake. Pancake. So you see when you start to see the bubble like this. You know it means it's almost ready to flip up. So we have some amazing potato blenisse. We have some great, great goose martini. And we're going to serve with that some good caviar. Eat your blenisse with the caviar. And after a little sip of a great goose martini. That's the holidays. That's a snack right there. Easy to do. Voila. So I'll put a little bit of creme fraiche here. Okay. I'll put a nice touch of caviar here. Christmas for me, holidays, it's really about food, drink, friends, family. So today I did a great goose martini with potato blenisse. With creme fraiche and caviar. A perfect pairing. Trust me, with that you're happy. Like this. What goes better with vodka? Caviar. Why? The blenisse are great in Russia. The vodka thing was great in Russia, promise. And the caviar was great, no? It's Polish, yeah. Shit. Caviar and vodka, a classic pairing. So good. Walk all the time. Ask the Polish. The Russian create the caviar. The Polish create the vodka. Or whatever, I don't know. But as a French, what we did? Just take all the recipe and make them better. That's it. We refined the thing. That's great. That's a good Christmas. But be careful. Make sure Uncle Joe don't get drunk.