There's more than pastries really...
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Dec, 2012
Croissants, Brioches and Salmon Crêpes :)
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Aug, 2012
Christmas Log
Almond roll cake, swiss meringue, raspberry and chocolate wood decoration
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Aug, 2012
Hazelnut & Nutella Cake
Filling: Pastry Cream, Butter Cream & Nutella
Decoration: Swiss Meringue & Butter Cream & Nutella. Tuile. Chocolate Marble Name, Transparent cooked glucose
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Aug, 2012 Chocolate & Coffee Cake
Filling with a mix of pastry cream & butter cream. Meringue decoration.
Stencil decoration: Vanilla Joconde & Chocolate Tuile Paste
Chocolate Glaze
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Aug, 2012 Appetizer
Puff Pastry & Turkey Sausages Salt & Pepper
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Aug, 2012 Pear Tart
Pear poached in Shiraz with cinnamon, orange and sugar
Flacky Dough filled with almond cream.
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July, 2012 Pistachio / Raspberry Cake
Improving on last week's design.
Presented at the Echostar baking contest for the Summer Splash Event.
1st Place :)
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July 2012
Strawberry / Pistachio Cake
The side is made of a really thin Joconde Cake and Raspberry Jam. The cake itself is a light chiffon cake, cut in three and filled with Swiss Butter Cream mixed with homemade pistachio paste and Strawberries.
Decorated with pistachio paste and marzipan roses.
The main difficulty is the joconde cake which has to be baked evenly even though it's barely a few millimeter thin. |
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June 2012
Raspberry / Chocolate Cake
This dress from Alexander McQueen is absolutely amazing. It was presented a few years back for a Gala at the Metropolitan Museum Of Art.
I've decided to make a cake out of it... |
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May, 2012 Bread - French Baguette
I have decided to learn how to make bread this year...
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May, 2012 Chocolate Cake
More Chocolate :)
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May, 2012
Chocolate Cake |
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May, 2012 Spicy Oil Scallops
Coriander & Parsley
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May, 2012 Tenderloin
I wasn't sure about wrapping pork belly around that thick tenderloin but it totally works.
The garlic and gorgonzola white wine sauce (that's a mouthful...in every sense) wasn't bad either.
Grilled almond and Asparagus on the side.
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May, 2012 Friands
Home made puff pastry of course :)
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April, 2012 Seabass Carpaccio with Coriander and Grapefruit (Homemade bread) Recipe: Didem Senol from "Lokanta Maya" Restaurant |
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April, 2012 Marinated Artichokes with Dill and Fresh Ginger (Homemade bread) Recipe: Karaköy Lokantasi, Istanbul |
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April, 2012 Milk Chocolate Crémeux with Sesame Crème Anglaise Recipe: Shawn Gawle from "Corton" NYC I wasn't sure about the "Toasted Sesame Crème Anglaise" but it's phenomenal. The only problem is that if you take one spoon of the chocolate you can't really taste the subtlety of the sesame seeds afterwards. Did I mention there's some Single Barrel Colorado Bourbon in the "Crémeux" and Fleur de Sel on top of the Crème Anglaise? :-) TO...DIE...FOR! |
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April, 2012 Hazelnut-Brown Butter Brownies Recipe: Stella Parks from "Table Three Ten" Lexington, KY |
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March, 2012
Bread - French Baguette
Getting Better...need more work though... |
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March, 2010 Chocolate Lace & Caramel Spider Striped Chocolate Cup Butterscotch Birthday Cake Techniques from: Bo Friberg |
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March, 2010 Chocolate Lace & Caramel Spider Chantilly cream, maraschino cherry, chocolate cigarettes. Techniques from: Bo Friberg |
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March, 2010 Striped Chocolate Cup Chocolate Cup garnished with butterscotch Swiss butter cream & butterscotch ganache. Chocolate cigarettes. Caramel layer. Maraschino Cherry. Techniques from: Bo Friberg |
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March, 2010 Butterscotch Birthday Cake Chiffon Sponge Cake garnished with butterscotch Swiss butter cream & butterscotch ganache. Almond paste rose & sign. Chocolate cigarettes. Caramel layer. Cointreau syrup. Base recipe from: Bo Friberg The design is mine :) |
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March, 2010 Chocolate Cake Chocolate Chiffon Sponge Cake garnished with chocolate Swiss butter cream. Raspberry & Blackberry. Grand Marnier Liquor... Recipe from: Bo Friberg The design is mine :) |
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February, 2010 Chestnut Puzzle Cake Chiffon Sponge Cake (regular + Chocolate) garnished with Swiss butter cream (Chocolate + Chestnut puree) and Frangelico liqueur. Improvement: - Circle should be 10in diameter; not 9. - Layers should be 12mm, not 16mm thick - More chestnut to match the chocolate flavor. - More moister to make it easier on the diagonal. Recipe from: Bo Friberg |
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February, 2010
Faubourg Pavé
Chocolate cake garnished with a salted caramel chocolate ganache. One of them is garnished with apricots and the other one is just chocolate.
Recipe from: Pierre Hermé |
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February, 2010
Chicken Parmigiana
Mozzarella and Parmesan over breaded chicken, Linguini & homemade tomato sauce. |
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January, 2010
Macaron
Chocolate Macarons, Orange "Tuiles" |
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January, 2010
Mozart
Layers of cinnamon dough & chocolate mouse with caramelized apple.
Recipe from: Pierre Hermé |
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January, 2010
Poached Pear and Walnut Tart
Recipe from: Pierre Hermé |
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January, 2010
Chaussons aux Pommes
Filled with "Twenty-Hour Apple" - Recipe from Pierre Hermé |
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January, 2010
Pastries
Chocolate Milles-feuilles
Puff pastry dough folded with cacao - Double vanilla pastry cream mixed with whipped cream.
Recipe from: Pierre Hermé |
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January, 2010
Pastries
Éclairs chocolat, choux café, milles feuilles, paris-brest, polonaises, petit choux pralinés, brioches suisses, brioches et meringues. |
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January, 2010
Wedding Cake
Nougatine, Choux garnis (noisette), Meringue Suisse, Crême au beurre, rose en sucre et quelques fruits rouges... |
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October, 2009
Crêpe - Tuna Filet
Sour cream, dill, white pepper & salt, capers, stuffed olives
White butter sauce |
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October, 2009
Fruit Cake
Okay, that's very basic but for my defense I don't have time to do fancy stuff... |
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August, 2009
Eclair, Mille feuilles, Polonaises and choux |
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February, 2009
Double Chocolate Cookies
I found this recipe browsing around and I thought I would try it; works great. http://www.latimes.com/features/printedition/food/la-fo-sos14-2009jan14,0,1370637.story |
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February, 2009
Double Chocolate Cookies
I found this recipe browsing around and I thought I would try it; works great. http://www.latimes.com/features/printedition/food/la-fo-sos14-2009jan14,0,1370637.story |
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April, 2009
Petit Choux |
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April, 2009
Petit Choux |
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March, 2009
Elephant Ears |
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April, 2009
Flan
I added quite a bit of sour cream in the batter and it works. |
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March, 2009
Flan |
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March, 2009
Flan |
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March, 2009
Friands |
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March, 2009
Friands |
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March, 2009
St Honoré |
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March, 2009
St Honoré |
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April, 2009
Swiss Meringue |
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April, 2009
Tartelette |
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January 20th, 2009 Paris Brest |
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January 20th, 2009 Paris Brest |
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January 17th, 2009 Tart - Chocolate & Citrus |
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January 4th, 2009 Swiss Brioche |
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January 4th, 2009 Mille Feuilles |
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January 4th, 2009 Mille Feuilles |
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October 17th, 2007 Strawberry Pie |
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October 12th, 2007 Quiche aux lard |
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October 5th, 2007
Eclairs and Choux |
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October 4th, 2007 Croissants |
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January 27th - "No reason whatsoever" Party (from left/ top to bottom/right) (Leftover the next day...)
January, 27th 2007 |
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July 22nd - Summer Party (from left to right)
July, 22nd 2006 |
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Fraisier Absolutely decadent; Strawberry jam, butter cream, Strawberries, white chocolate ganache (grand marnier) and Italian Meringue...
June, 27th 2006 |
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Būche Chocolate Ganache & chocolate butter cream December, 11th 2005 |
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December Party 2005 :-)
December, 9th 2005 |
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Būche Hazelnut meringue & chocolate butter cream November, 24th 2005 |
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Mille Feuilles
November, 15th 2005 |
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Halloween Party - October, 28th 2005 Brioches, Savarin, Chocolats, Polonaises, éclair & choux, Forźt noire. |
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Savarin (Rum cake) August, 5th 2005 |
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Chocolate Cake with whipped cream and cherries topped with ganache (white chocolate / Grand Marnier) Eclair & Choux Chocolate (hazelnut filling / white ganache) February, 25th 2005 |
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January, 23rd 2005 |
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Christmas "Būche" Admittedly, I'm a little late... No time to put colors on the mushrooms...as usual work gets in the way on me baking pastries :-( January, 13th 2005 |
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Chocolate - Almond / Cooked sugar - Amaretto Liquor Bad thing about working with chocolate is that the last thing on earth you want to eat when you're done is chocolate. January, 9th 2005 |
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Pithivier November, 20 2004 |
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November, 12 2004 |
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Pineapple cake November, 12 2004 |
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Strawberry cake Taste pretty good - I'm not sure about the color though... more pastel next time. October, 29 2004 |
