Trying my new machine 🙂 Whole wheat flour pasta.
Category Archives: Cooking
Pear & Almond Tart
Sweet Dough (Pierre Hermé) Almond Cream and Bartlett Pears poached in Caramel.
Served with Chantilly and Cranberries.
Birthday :)
2001 Merlot from Italy. Delicious.
Roasted Cauliflower with bacon and pine nuts
Prosciutto, salami and truffle terrine…
Bacon wrapped Tenderloin
Roquefort
Booker’s and Cigar after the white chocolate cake.
White Faubourg Pave
Following loosely Pierre Hermé’s recipe for the Faubourg Pavé I made a White Chocolate & Cherry version of it.
Tart Cherries cooked with black pepper, White chocolate Caramel Ganache with Tarragon infused cream and Michigan Tart Cherry Liquor from Leopold Bros. Meringue for decoration. Here’s a step by step…
For the second layer of fruits I actually cooked cranberries with grounded fennel seeds, caraway seeds and anise seeds.
Faubourg Pavé
Faubourg Pav̩ РRecipe by Pierre Herm̩
Chocolate Cake, Chocolate & Caramel Ganache with Apricot.
(Red & blue are the colors of the Paris flag. Doesn’t go well with the cake but that’s my homage…)
Apple Mille-Feuille
Apple Mille-Feuille with Caramelized Chestnuts, Calvados Chantilly, Caramel and Grilled Almonds.
Baby Eggplants…
Found baby eggplants at Marczyk’s. Thought I’d try them.
Steamed them for 10 minutes & stirred them in duck fat with ginger, shallots, garlic, olive oil, balsamic vinegar, sherry and soy sauce.
Marczyk’s just received a new Bordeaux. I had to try it 🙂
Meatballs with Pasta and Fresh Oregano.
Meatballs in Tomato Sauce
Meatballs – Part 1
Got the recipe from Food & Wine November 2015.
Seared some of them adding some sherry towards the end. The rest was slowly cooked in tomato sauce for 30 minutes in the oven.
Tenderloin
Tenderloin with blue cheese sauce, brown rice, tomatoes, shallots…
Apple Pie
Had some left over dough from last weekend so…
(Brand new Chicago Metallic Non-Stick 10-Inch Quiche Pan)
Thin layer of apple sauce…
Adding the sliced apple…
Cooked at 400F with some aluminum foil on top. (I wanted the dough to be well cooked and not all mushy.)
Unrelated but slow baking (a few hours) some left over apple with butter + Tahitian vanilla + honey + brown sugar and sliced almond. Should be good…
Lotte à l’Armoricaine
Lotte à l’Armoricaine with brown rice (except I used cod because finding burbot fish seems like too much work)
Caramelized Honey Nut and Seed Tart
Caramelized Honey Nut and Seed Tart for desert tonight 🙂
Recipe from Bon Appetit.
(Pecan, Hazelnut, Peanuts, Pistachio, Sliced Almonds, pumpkin and sunflower)
Blood Sausage & Mashed Potatoes
Blood Saussage & Mashed Potatoes / Boudin Noir et Purée au Lard
Dark Chocolate Coconut Cake
Dark Chocolate Coconut Cake
Valentine Cake
Happy Violent Time Anastasia
Valentine Cake – My take on valentine’s day 🙂
Chocolate Cake
Heart Shape Chocolate Cake with nougatine roses.
Swiss Brioche
“Step by Step” Swiss Brioche…
Brioche dough + Pastry cream + Candy fruits
Spicy Oil Scallops
Poached Pear Tart
My favorite pie for some reason…
Pears Poached in Merlot Wine with cinnamon and orange.
Filling: Pastry Cream with walnuts.
Shrimps
More Shrimps and more pasta. With a side of shallots and mushrooms.