chiantiglace, on Oct 30 2006, 05:30 PM, said:
Well week 5 is up and it is time for the 6th challenge.
This week I have challenged K8Memphis to incorporate classic Southern Sweet Tea into a dessert. I had been contimplating who to challenge and what to challenge them for a while now.
To my knowledge she doesn't get her hands very wet when it comes to plated dessert...
...It is not so much that the flavor is used for the dessert, is the idea and the feeling. Southern style sweet tea is suppose to make you feel at home and comfortable. If I go to anyones house and they have a pitcher of sweet tea on the dining room table I already feel welcome.
I would like K8 to use southern sweet tea to recreate that feeling in a plated dessert.
This week I have challenged K8Memphis to incorporate classic Southern Sweet Tea into a dessert. I had been contimplating who to challenge and what to challenge them for a while now.
To my knowledge she doesn't get her hands very wet when it comes to plated dessert...
...It is not so much that the flavor is used for the dessert, is the idea and the feeling. Southern style sweet tea is suppose to make you feel at home and comfortable. If I go to anyones house and they have a pitcher of sweet tea on the dining room table I already feel welcome.
I would like K8 to use southern sweet tea to recreate that feeling in a plated dessert.
Remember those well penned words of Chiantiglace when he said,
"She doesn't get her hands too wet with plated desserts."
And Thank You, Anthony, for asking me to do the challenge.
So we have Southern Sweet Tea with a Southern Welcome.
So deconstructing iced tea. Umm, the components in iced tea, are the tea, lemon, sugar, ice cubes and the glass would be glistening with sweat. Occupational hazard of drinking cold tea on a hot day. I did add in the idea of mint--I've never had mint in my iced tea, but it made it more fun.
I plated it in two different arrangements.
So you'll notice the lemon tea caviar is on the outside of the upturned glass representing the glistening sweat spilling out and down the side over the plate beneath. The cubes of cake represent the ice cubes of course. Three flavors of cake, mint angel food, rose angel food and lavendar pound cake arranged on apricot flavored rose petals. I thought the florals represented the homey comfy welcome. So the diner tears open a cake cube and scarfs up a wad of caviar and pops it in their mouth. Eating with your fingers is very 'down home'.
The poured sugar accents are mint flavored, straight up sugar.
The iced tea cookie is a linzer style dressed with glistening tea jelly accented with Southern Comfort. Blew my diet on these buggers today--lol! Notice the green straw in the cookie er, I mean 'glass' of tea complete with ice.
The 'pecan pie' is Pierre Herme's lemon cream with instant tea--kinda cheated but it's dynamite and it stays on target, tastes like Southern sweet tea. It's in a phyllo crust with berry sauce.
Doesn't it look like the pecans are praying?
Another view
I need to turn this photo..but in the meantime...
And a close up of the cake cubes on rose petals
So the original plating thought on the pecan pie was to have it stand up on the plate to balance out the martini glass... but it looked so cool laying down...Cornucopia style...which leads me to the next challenge and challenger...
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Posted 07 November 2006 - 07:52 AM
! Wrong thread, but I get to say I love the upside down glass with tea caviar standing in for beads of moisture on a hot Southern day. Clever.
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