July 2011
5 posts
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La Tarte au Citron
Yes, I own the ultimate reference for Patisserie, THE book, by Christophe Felder: Patisserie.
It’s amazing and scaring at the same time. Recipes are well explained and full of pictures step by step, but there are recipes that need 8 pages to be described…:-P
To start I chose one of my favorite of the French patisserie: la tarte au citron. It’s not too difficult and the result was so gooood:...
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Sunday+rain+cold= need of pancakes
Pancakes are just for breakfast? Well, if it’s end of july, it’s sunday and outside is raining and freezing cold, you are allowed to desire pancake…so, let your wish come true! (Recipe taken from here, but adapted to one person quantity).
Ingredients:
½ cup all purpose flour
3 tablespoons white sugar
a pinch of salt
¼ teaspoon baking powder
1 egg, separated
4 heaping tablespoons ricotta...
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Cheese cake? Yes, but Italian style.
You wish a dessert but you have 5 minutes time to prepare it? Have this simple Italian style cheese cake, with mascarpone and ricotta!
Ingredients:
A roll of pastry crust (or a portion of dough following these instructions)
250g mascarpone
250g ricotta
200g white sugar
10g potato starch
100g chocolate chunks
2 egg yolks
1 packet vanilla sugar
½ coffee spoon cinnamon
Instruction:
Unroll the...
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My sunny peach tart
In Luxembourg we have a huge wish of summer…but for the moment we have to face daily rain, temperature around 18°C (if it’s hot!) and a constant dark grey sky… So at least I made the summer enter my kitchen with this sunny tart!
Ingredients:
1 roll of puff pastry
4 peaches
5 tablespoons grounded nuts
3 tablespoons apricot jam
1 tablespoon butter
3 tablespoons brown sugar
½ coffee spoon...
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Tarte Alsacienne aux Fraises...mais si, ici il y a...
Just an alternative to the usual straberry tart! I found this recipe on a book about Alsatian patisserie…mmmmhhhhh….
For the cream:
1/2l milk
1 packet of vanilla sugar
3 egg yolks
100g white sugar
30g all purpose flour
30g potato starch
For the cake:
100g white sugar
2 eggs
67g all purpose flour
60g potato starch
For the topping:
500g strawberries
Transparent gelatin
Start preparing...
