Still a few days left (5 days from now that Iam writing these few lines) and there is one little girl that is still not decided to show up her face…just nothing at the monitoring a sleepy baby and a kind of tired mum. Hopefully A. and my mother are here to give an hand, most of all keep Jack busy.
It’s the 4th birthday within a month,the one of A. for this week end. His mother prepared some farrotto with pumpkin, same than a risotto but with farro instead of rice, parmesan, almonds and nuts. Good! I recommend it. It is a nice way to change from the classical risotto, and actually the farro gives a stronger taste with the pumpkin than the rice. As a dessert (actually two!) a chocolate mousse without eggs according to a recipe from Pierre Hermé and a meringue lemon pie based on a recipe from Christophe Felder in the last Elle à Table. This chocolate mousse is quite original as it does not contain any eggs but whipped cream, but also has crunchy pieces of caramel.
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That was the dessert I did when my friend N. came over for lunch. I remember I did my first tarte tatin when Iwas still in Liège. Although I thought I did it completely wrong as it turned out that the butter I bought was from goat and not cow, the tart was just just great. I tried several times to redone it, same kind of butter or mix between different kinds, it was impossible to get the same.
Anyway all tries turned out to be good, and this time I did it with a pate sucrée from a Pierre Hermé recipe (better to be done the day before) and added some vanilla and lime juice to the apples. Just delicious!
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This recipe comes directly from the book Larousse du Chocolat by Pierre Hermé. My favorite (the cook, the man named the Picasso of pastry). I wouldn’t say I tried them all but I baked a lot of my chocolate desserts from this book. Recipes are simple, clear, well explained. Bases are shown at the end even with some pictures. The best book ever for beginners in pastry or more « professional »…
Apart from that, my needs (to be honest I should say desires) of chocolate is getting stronger and stronger. Idon’t know if it is linked to the end of the pregnancy, but one day without it and I could go crazy. It is simple, I was out with Jack, I had a nice lunch with some friends, well eating, even got some of that carnaval donuts before: castagnole (told you I am STARVING!), but I saw a nice shelf full of desserts in a tea room, and I dared to pay 8 euros for a slice of chocolate cake that Jake almost ate all. And it was not even worth to pay that price (consider that the tea was 8 euros, too… a glass of water was just enough!). Downtown Roma can be really expensive… So coming back home I stopped my frustration baking this so delicious brownie. The original recipe is with pistachio, but I replaced them with nuts and did some minor modifications (little bit more of chocolate and less sugar).
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