Open Studio
Episode: #926
Airdate: Thursday, April 19, 2007 @ 8:00pm

Lucrezia Café and Restaurant

Owner, Michael Karas and Chef Patrick Scholz, prepared a sumptuous Veal Saltimboca and a spring Yellow Tomato Salad.  Lucrezia, located in Chesterton and Crown Point, is a great place to go on a date and sit outside and enjoy the warmer weather!  Below are the recipes of the two dishes they presented.

Website:  www.lucreziacafe.com

YELLOW TOMATO SALAD
Yellow tomatoes can be purchased at most farmers markets and upscale food retailers. 

Vinaigrette:
Two cups fresh basil leaves
1/4 cup parmesan cheese
1 cup extra virgin olive oil
1 oz. red wine vinegar
salt and pepper to taste

Combine all ingredients for vinaigrette into a blender and blend until smooth.  Place yellow tomato wedges on plate and spoon vinaigrette over the tomatoes to your liking.  Top with sliced red onions, kalamata olives, gorgonzola cheese, and pine nuts to your liking.

VEAL SALTIMBOCA (per serving)
4 slices veal culets
4 thin sliced proscuitto
4 fresh sage leaves
2 oz. white wine
1 oz. lemon juice
1 TBP butter
1 TBP minced garlic
1 cup flour for dusting

Place veal cutlets on cutting board and cover with plastic wrap.  Using a tenderizing hammer (smooth side), pound the veal until it thin about 1/8 in.  Pull off the plastic wrap and save it.  Turn the veal cutlet over and lay a sage leaf on each cutlet.  Lay a thin slice of proscuitto over the sage leaf.  Lay the plastic wrap over the cutlet and tenderize by pounding some more. Place flour on a plate.  Lightly dust both sides of the cutlets with flour, shaking off any excess flour. Heat olive oil in a sautee pan.  Only when oil is hot, place cutlets in pan, proscuitto side down.  Cook until proscuitto is crispy, approximately 3 minutes and turn over to finish, approximately 2 minutes.  Do not overcook it.  Discard olive oil from sautee pan and add garlic, wine and lemon juice to pan stirring occasionally while reducing the liquid to half and then add butter to finish.  Add veal back to the pan to warm. Place veal cutlets on platter and pour the white wine garlic butter sauce from the pan over the veal and serve.

Vickers Review with Jon Vickers

DVD Legacy:
OVERLORD (1975)
Directed by Stuart Cooper
Criterion Collection

Current “arthouse” titles:
LAST KING OF SCOTLAND (2006)
Directed by Kevin MacDonald
20^th Century Fox Home Entertainment

HISTORY BOYS (2006)
Directed by Nicholas Hytner
20^th Century Fox Home Entertainment

THE QUEEN (2006)
Directed by Stephen Frears
Buena Vista Home Entertainment

LITTLE CHILDREN (2006)
Directed by Todd Field
Warner Home Video

My Guilty Pleasure:
TEARS OF THE BLACK TIGER (2007)
Directed by Wisit Sasanatieng
Magnolia Home Entertainment

Judy Gosh & Rita Cochran
Art Attack in Harbor Country

The 14^th Annual Art Attack in Harbor Country took place on April 27-29.  Judy and Rita filled us in on all the numerous events that would take place.  There was food, music and art at 40 different venues throughout Harbor Country.

Website:  www.harborcountry.org

Music Segment

Jeanie B!

She is a rock‘n’roll mommy based out of Chicago.  Her songs will not only get your kids going but will have you singing along to the words!  Jeanie B! performed her first song, that every child will love, “Mommy Knows Best” and finished up the program with, “The World is a Wonderful Place.”           

Website:  www.JeanieBmusic.com

David Jewell
Photographer

His gorgeous floral photography gets you in the mood for warmer weather.  During the last year David has had satisfaction and creative joy through photographing nature.  You can see his first solo exhibit, “A Garden Party” on display at Pure Rituals.  Stop and take a closer look! 

Pure Rituals
108 E. Front Street
Buchanan, MI  49107
Phone:  269.697.5414.

Mark O’Brien
JFNew

A Native Plant Nursery, JFNew is dedicated to enriching and saving our environment through the use of native plants.  Mark showed us how to plant a Rain Garden in our own backyard!  Having a rain garden is a way to participate in the reduction of polluted runoff.  It is a wonderful way to reduce non-point source pollution

Website:  www.jfnew.com

Janice Langland & Julie Neises
Fire Arts & Artist

If you haven’t heard yet, Fire Arts is an open-door studio where professional and emerging artists work in exchange for a modest rent and volunteer time spent educating the public.  Julie is one of the artists who take’s advantage of this offer at Fire Arts to create her sculptures and to display her pieces.  Currently, Fire Arts is hosting “First Saturday” and “Downtown Thursday”.  “First Saturday” offers a mini-workshop of 3-D arts projects for children, youth and adults.  “Downtown Thursday” occurs every six weeks where the public is encouraged to visit Fire Arts and Circa Arts, then go to dinner nearby and then top off the evening by visiting Studio Art Center.

Fire Arts
305 E. Colfax Ave.
South Bend, Indiana
Phone:  574.282.2787

Website:  www.fireartsinc.com

Sit & Knit with Kim, Jack & Bird

A new program will make its debut on WNIT called Sit & Knit with Kim, Jack & Bird.  We interviewed the three hosts, Kim and Jack Olesker & Robin Chamblin,.  Sit & Knit is a half hour show dedicated to the knitter in all of us!  The show was taped on location at Kim and Jack’s own yarn store/café in downtown South Bend.  Tune in on May 20 to watch the premiere.

Website:  http://sitnknit.com

Lake Magazine Segment

Once again, WNIT teamed up with  Lake Magazine,  bringing life to an article about the infamous Red Arrow Highway.  Red Arrow, which has been compared to Route 66, has many antique shops, old time restaurants, bed and breakfasts and, of course, Lake Michigan.  In this segment, we visited Jim Maroney’s Redamak’s (where you can get the best hamburgers on the planet), and three must see antique shops, The Plum Tree, Lakeside Antiques, and Marco Polo.

Lake Magazine:  www.lakemagazine.com

Redamak’s:  www.redamaks.com

The Plum Tree:  16337 Red Arrow Hwy, New Buffalo, MI  269-469-5980

Lakeside Antiques:  14866 Red Arrow Hwy, New Buffalo, MI  269-469-4467

Marco Polo: 13630 Red Arrow Hwy, Harbert, MI  269-469-1162

Latino Impressions: Portraits of a Culture
Now - June 3 at the Lubeznik Center for the Arts

Amy Davis Navardauskas and Martina Lopez talked about this important exhibit celebrating Latino culture at the Lubeznik Center in Michigan City.   Latino Impressions focuses on the historic and current artistic trends of the Latino community and Martina is one of the featured artists.  She uses old found photographs and creates new pieces to tell her version of the human experience.  Check out this exhibit and the Latino Cultural Programs they are holding at the Lubeznik Center!

Website:  www.lubeznikcenter.org