Thursday, January 24, 2008

Can 5 Month Old Get Measles?

2008: stars in the plate. It








And not necessarily the Spotless Mind ... :)
I do not know about you but I am skeptical about the latest in the mouth of this very cool 2008 ... (I hesitate a few more days before we really make an announcement like "JF seeks his characteristic optimism lost a day in January .."). I would not be original if I I hate to say January! It goes by so slowly, it's unbelievable! The fact that it is synonymous with examinations should not be all for nothing ... More than elsewhere, I want the "good end". January
me débecte especially its length eternal, who will dare say "aaaaah January rose so fast!" what? "Already February?! Pfiouh, why does it not 28 days like in January? I always try to offer the open, you never know, remember that there has been a call that we would have done so far today " Pluviose 5 year 213. Yes I authorize you to see that my main resolution will not have been that of not being pedantic!
Pluviose ... oh what a potential déprimaturesque !!!!! I refuse to think about it and decided to create a countdown Anti-January ... and it will most significant since January 31 I fly to other climes great to me ... Barcelona, tapas and of course the best-friends-especially expatriates!
The incipit of the day as a rant so I took note. And I guess you too "ooh finally she thankfully there has not posted more in lean months blogosphere .."
So then, loyal and any consistent with my anti-thesis janviérale, I submit for your approval tonight ( who said that metaphor was sometimes a bit too spun?) housing mouth's Eve 2007, in the middle of December, therefore, a period oh beloved of your interlocutor, as synonymous with culinary excess, overweight and well deserved family reunion! And all that far from the concerns - yet oh so necessary (why every word he refers me to an exam?!) cross-border mergers or other opportunity for the adoption of uniform rules of law.

The Kitchen of the Month January will be another flashback of 24 all-in-excess. And as I appreciate the charm of inversions, it is natural after the logs that I present this:
Duo appetizers: Star of gingerbread topped with Roquefort Caramel Puerto
with damn stole the show at the Tartinette gingerbread Foie gras, lovingly wrapped in caramel Citrus.



Yes, I concocted this little charming duo obviously thinking that people fall for the irresistible trilogy gingerbread, foie gras and caramel citrus, finding at most "original" and "cool" ( I do not know about you but I am reserved in assessing "nice" of a dish ..) another trilogy much less Catholic , gingerbread, Roquefort and Port.
's just say that my predictions have proved grossly inaccurate and that the trilogy has won a spectacular success at the expense of fatty liver, which was enjoyed with much less emotion papillatoire!

As for the source of this amazing mix, I must say, not without a slight breeze shame that newspaper oh so anti-cultural TF1 talked about a cheese " the fabulous idea of serving a Roquefort with a glass of Porto .
And presto! brains of your interlocutor Babblers worked hard hard to put together this little idea ... As
caramel citrus with foie gras it seemed to have already heard many praise its merits ..

How accompany with harmony and lightness, these little wonders? using the guru-Petit Suisse course! I was looking for something cost, simple, surprising, original! And I told him "piqued" his idea of a wonderful diced mango and pepper red!

Small erratum the pictures I have taken them before pouring the two small toffees for lack of time, since we had used it all immediately! Sadness .. but I know I can easily trust your imagination the most greedy to fill that gap! And then I quietly put the word "non-contractual photo !

Without further ado .. trade secrets:

- Tartinette gingerbread foie gras with caramel citrus


- a few slices of gingerbread
- A third of a beautiful lobe (?)
foie gras - the juice of half an orange, half a grapefruit and half a lime and zest!
- 200 grams of sugar
- 1 tsp s in balsamic vinegar.

Cut with a cookie cutter cupcake Christmas small circles in the slices of gingerbread (after a small form per person). I chose to do them all round to showcase the stars of blue cheese! Cut-
with mastery of this art, please! - fatty liver Toddler Songs. Place on tartinettes. Prepare
toffee (at the timing future-the perfect little housewife that I am: D caramels prepared both at the same time, just before sitting down to eat, everything is very very fast !) through Heat sugar in small saucepan over high heat. When it browns slightly, it becomes "red" as they say, add fruit juice (watch out for possible eclaboussades and other burns of the eye in the eighth degree ... for once it didn ' not happen! ) and spoon of balsamic vinegar and the lemon zest. Mix everything and let caramelize! Pour a small ladle of this sumptuous Topping the tartinette!
Nothing easier, more fragrant and tastier on the alliance unforgettable and highly addictive fatty liver / gingerbread!

- Etoile de Roquefort with gingerbread, caramel Puerto



- slices of gingerbread
- a very good piece of Roquefort (no idea how much ... anyway, a Roquefort still has a place on the cheese platter, is not it?)
- about a quarter cup of Porto (and good, please!)
- a c. S.
sugar - a v. S. vinegar balsamic

Cut the slices of gingerbread in the shape of a star if you're feeling romantic, bucolic! Or even if you're like a very bad mood, who knows if these goodies will not be worth all the pies chocolate in the world! ;)
proceed differently here: I met in Puerto pot, sugar and balsamic vinegar, caramelized and did it all! This smoothness was second to none ... I might also be due to follow the same process for citrus caramel (though a large quantity of sugar was necessary ..). A test then!
Pour a ladle of this mini-marvel on your mini-sofas-Stars!

And presto, it throws all year for this! "Ah the little Claire top of its 22 years .. gnagnagna! .
;)

To finish off a starter, a ..

teaspoon fresh-diced mango-red pepper

-
a mango - a sweet red pepper
- a mom very cooperative (and certainly not usually cook at all!) That helps you cut the mango and pepper while you "catch your capon" and return the prawns with mango and lime ...

Cut into "diced " = all cubes of approximately 3 mm! mango and pepper, place in pretty appetizing spoons-ultra-fashion, tied with a little raffia red side bucólico -lovers!




much for these little appetizers!
Hoping that the coming months allow me to publish a little more and make a few film critics out - about - incident, because time does not allow it for now, and I will not detain you on " Into the Wild "which deserves all the success madly he!


Thursday, January 3, 2008

Fkk Family Russian Bare

into logs that we become - uh .. Pastry?








The incipit of the day will be a gigantic another mea culpa for blog-this buissonnièrerie this unjustified absence of nearly three weeks, which certainly deserves the sincerity of a parent word of apology such as "our offspring too busy in the kitchen to spend his free time to look back and Writing in this simmering nearby! And it is not without some bitterness that these free hours have been dedicated to studying hard and fast rather than the soft-blogesque Culino literature! As if he had broken your interlocutor a outlet. Because there is no reason to be silent, I feel wonderful here! The festivities me- culinary - restraint in the kitchen but have mostly been the opportunity to conconter various small dishes that will - no doubt with their endless incipits! - feed the next page!

extreme Location: meet the top of his 22 years in large cook's Eve, is to transcribe - with a hint of authority "flavor of the day" - traditional recipes - the " musts" this festive table, French version. Although just as fascinated by my two Culino-cultural traditions, cooking Italian cuisine delights me more as "daily", while his French counterpart bothers many ideas huge feasts, festive, pure tradition, the revenue a more sensitive than the other, more refined, more conducive to the aesthetics assiétal;)

A long period of empty blogesque thus abundantly felt in a mea culpa géantissime as an incipit, mea culpa that was not the least among the guests enrégimés's Eve address these two terrific logs!

To be honest with you vacuum blogesque accompanied by an overflow of events in real real life, those moments that make you feel good return on those crazy festive desserts, when we were "not aware" when everything was carefree and overweight!

Without further ado: a beneficial flashbacks from 24 at night:
terrible inseparable duo logs Salted Butter Caramel (the brunette) and Lychee and Rose (the Marie Antoinette Sophia Coppola if .. you read me, yes, of course I agree to decorate your next culinary movie! I called my poodle!).



- The Salted Butter Caramel Buche - (from a recipe last Cuisine et Vins de France).

For about 8: -150

gr salted butter - 150 gr sugar
- 100g unsalted butter
- 1 tsp to s
heavy cream - 100 gr Mascarpone
For the biscuit:
-
6 eggs - 180 gr sugar
- 100 gr flour
- 30 grams of hazelnuts (pulverized by you, they will be even better!)

- 10 cl syrup of sugar cane
- 10 cl Chartreuse (or other liquor)
-
salt
To finish:
- 150 grams of sugar
- 50 gr softened butter
- 3 c to s. juice oragne blood.
+ deco will. Kitsch does not kill, it is well known!

Preheat oven to Th 6-7 (200 ° C), paper baking sheet with parchment paper. Prepare the cake: Separate the yolks from the whites. In a bowl, whisk yolks and sugar until frothy and then add flour and hazelnuts. Beat the egg whites with a pinch salt and mix gently into batter. Spread it on the parchment paper and bake for 10 minutes.
In a saucepan put the butter into pieces salt, 150 grams of sugar and 1 teaspoon s. water, let caramelize over high heat. Off the heat add the cream. Let cool.
Remove the biscuit from the oven and turn it on a damp cloth, remove the parchment paper and then cover with another damp cloth. Book.
Add butter caramel warm unsalted butter cut in pieces and stir until melted, then the mascarpone. Stir with a whisk to strengthen hand and let cool. Gather
chartreuse and sugar syrup. Brush in the cookie with a brush. Spread the mascarpone cream on top with a spatula and then wrap it on itself. Wrap the plastic wrap and refrigerate for 12H.
After this time, prepare the finish: knead the softened butter with icing sugar, add orange juice. Unwrap the log and cover the butter with orange in several layers, and draw stripes with the tines of a fork ( Hmm ... rather skeptical about this last time: not enough cream to the "layers" and scratches are not magically appeared ... sad ..:)).

- The log Lychee and Rose - (Recipe and Cooking Wines last year, special celebration, as what we do not change a winning team!)


For about 8
-
4 eggs - 100 grams of sugar
- 60 grams of flour
- 60 gr starch
- 20 gr melted butter
- 10 cl sugar syrup
- 3 c to s. rosewater
For the Cream:
- 250 gr soft butter
- 125 gr icing sugar
- 10 lychees
- red dye ( mini-mini thumb dye, not a pinch, like myself, unless you have a taste for kitsch decorations - Coppola's decadent)

Preheat oven to th. 7 (210 °). Break the eggs, separating whites and yolks. Beat yolks with sugar until frothy, then add the flour and starch by sieving.
Beat the egg whites until stiff, add them to the previous preparation and the melted butter, lifting the mass with a spatula. Sprinkle the baking sheet with parchment paper, spread the batter into a rectangle 30 x 40 cm and bake about 10 minutes. Drop the biscuit
immediately on a clean, damp cloth, remove the paper and set aside, covered with another clean damp cloth.
Prepare the custard: mix the softened butter, cut into pieces and icing sugar, add a few drops of food coloring. Peel and pit lychees, cut into small cubes, drain on paper towels and toss them with half the cream rose. Bring syrup and rose water. Discover the cake and brush the syrup, spread the cream lychee and roll it on itself. Cut the ends uneven, place the log onto a plate and spread over cream pink with a spatula. Cover it with plastic wrap and chill at least 12 hours. Sprinkle with icing sugar before serving.

Verdict: ouhlàlà is mixed on the horizon for I doubt, salted butter caramel! For others, no doubt, lychee and pink (which I found quite nauseating in the long run!)
The visual effect convinced me, and that's not bad!
When I limit myself to a log with chocolate or coffee? " Alas! I love challenges me lose!
: D


By the way! (I would run away like a thief me!) Happy New Year lovely bloggers! Thank you very much for your wishes to all! Wishing you a great year by any chocolates or not, I'm not in this hard-month partial ... that might give me enough I rarely regret, once again! Although
though. .. I certainly do not resist long to share the sweets and other appetizers this ambrosia Eve! ...