TAMARA CHILDS COLLECTION

Thank you to Tableware Today for this great feature on the new home collection with the F. Scott Fitzgerald estate. If you haven't heard or seen about this wonderful collaboration, you can read about it here, and shop the collection on the site.

It's not often that you hear "easy" and "mole" in the same sentence. This classic Mexican dish is often associated with hours of prep and cook time to get the final result, but we unearthed a recipe over 10 years ago from food editor Matthew Card. The result is a savory and smoky version, more driven by coffee and charred vegetables, than the classic flavor of chocolate.

It's also very diet-friendly with low fat and whole food ingredients! Enjoy.

Makes 4 to 6 servings

This produces a whole blender of sauce - depending on the size of our group,  we have frozen half and it's delicious at a later time.

• 1 28-ounce can diced tomatoes, drained and squeezed dry
  
• 1 small white onion, chopped coarsely
• 6 cloves garlic
• 1 tablespoon vegetable or olive oil
• Salt and freshly ground black pepper
• 3/4 cup hot brewed coffee
  
• 1/4 cup raisins
• 4 teaspoons ancho chile powder (we use basic chili power from any grocery store).
• 2 teaspoons unsweetened cocoa
• 1/2 teaspoon ground allspice
• 1 canned chipotle chile (these are hot! We often leave out 1 chili and also scrape seeds from the pepper interior - test and add more if needed).
• 4 teaspoons firmly packed brown sugar
• 1/3 cup pepitas (shelled pumpkin seeds), lightly toasted (To toast pumpkin seeds, spread on baking sheet and bake in a 350-degree oven for 3 to 5 minutes or until brown.)
• 1 cup chicken broth
• 1 1/2 pounds boneless, skinless chicken thighs, trimmed of excess fat and cut crosswise into thin slices (we use chicken breast too!).

Garnish:
3 tablespoons minced fresh cilantro leaves
1 lime, cut into wedges for serving
Sour cream
Flour or corn tortillas

Adjust oven rack to within 5 inches of broiler element and heat broiler. On a rimmed baking sheet toss together tomatoes, onion, garlic and oil; season generously with salt and pepper. Broil mixture, stirring often, until it's browned and blackened in spots and tomatoes are dried out and withered, 8 to 12 minutes.

Meanwhile, in a blender jar combine coffee, raisins, chili powder, cocoa and allspice and allow to sit for at least 5 minutes.

Add tomato mixture to blender along with chipotle chile, brown sugar, pepitas, chicken broth and 2 more tablespoons oil. Process until mixture is smooth and thick; adjust seasoning with salt and pepper.
Chicken: you can bake, broil or saute - whatever you prefer.
Season with salt & pepper, & oil before cooking. This is just cooking the chicken basically because it's all about the mole sauce.

Place mole sauce & cooked chicken in stove-top skillet, reduce heat to medium low, and simmer 8 to 10 minutes.  We cut the chicken into strips or chunks - easy to wrap in tortilla. Over rice is great too.

Serve topped with cilantro and accompanied by lime wedges, sour cream and tortillas.

(Seattle, WA - May, 2019) —  F. Scott Fitzgerald, author of The Great Gatsby and his wife Zelda defined the wild and glittering romance of the Roaring 1920s. The era was marked by endless parties, daring style, and glamour, all sparked by an economic boom.  In his 160 short stories and five novels  Scott captured something essential about America and became an inspired chronicler of his age. Together, Scott and Zelda became icons of the Jazz Age.
 
The F. Scott Fitzgerald Home Collection™ celebrates this defining style in a fashion brand representing high-end designers. Ralph Lauren admits using F. Scott Fitzgerald as his muse for many of his collections and both the Plaza Hotel in New York and The Ritz in Paris have taken a license to honor F. Scott Fitzgerald, one of their most beloved patrons,( with) a suite in his name.  The Plaza revived the Jazz Age with an art deco-designed space, called the  Fitzgerald Suite, designed by Academy Award winning Costume and Set Designer, Catherine Martin and there is also a Fitzgerald high tea in the newly renovated Palm Court.
 
As part of this new partnership, Adam and Tamara Childs will design modern offerings with a splash of Art Nouveau, blending the beauty and uniqueness reminiscent of Scott and Zelda's flamboyant lifestyle. This collection will include signature glass staples from the Childs’ studio such as vases, bowls and platters and will be available for sale on TamaraChildsCollection.com.  Pieces designed for the F. Scott Fitzgerald Home Collection™ will debut at World Market Center Las Vegas this summer, and will be available for wholesale orders in July  to boutiques across the country in July.
 
With metallic as the primary design focus, the Tamara Childs Collection creates its simple elegance with the ancient art of hand-gilding, using fine sheets in hues of gold, silver and bronze. Every piece from creation to finish-work goes through Adam & Tamara’s hands five times. It’s this very intimate relationship with each piece that sets them apart from their competitors.
Tamara Childs Collection has a permanent showroom in the World Market  Center, Las Vegas. The collection can be found in shops, museums and galleries throughout the US, the Middle East, in Moscow, Madrid, Lisbon and Mexico City, Hong Kong, the Caribbean, South America, Panama and Japan.
Childs’ website, http://www.TamaraChildsCollection.com  introduces the studio’s rich gold, silver and metal gilded bowls, glassware, barware, plates, trays and decorative accessories. All items are food-safe, and hand washable in mild soap.
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Tamara Childs is a master gilder of hand-gilded metallic tableware, gifts, home decor and accessories. The Tamara Childs Collection can be found in over 700 gift shops, museums, galleries and showrooms around the world including the Saudi Royal Palace. Even as an ancient art, gilding thin metal leaf on surfaces as a means of adornment delighted its recipients—as gifts, showpieces or as everyday tableware. In her unique style, Tamara Childs continues this timeless tradition of creating hand-gilded pieces of table art made for a lifetime of enjoyment and use. Visit http://www.tamarachildscollection.com/
F. Scott Fitzgerald is one of the most enduring American novelists of the
20th Century and is as celebrated in the 21st Century as when he first emerged on the literary scene in the 1920’s.  As a dashing young Princeton student, he already possessed a distinct 'elan'; he was talented, well-read, fun loving and always impeccably dressed.  His novels and short stories were written in a style rich with flawless dialogue, greatly imaginative and intensely romantic. His books have been translated into 35 languages and he has been the subject of over 100 biographies.