Your Daily Sweets (2005-2012)

[Kim Shook]

Last Friday we celebrated our daughter's 25th birthday. She requested fondue instead of cake and ice cream, so I did Toblerone fondue and caramel with assorted dippers:

apples, pears, strawberries, bananas

thin mints, angelfood & poundcake, dried fruit, meringue cookies, coconut macaroons and some lovely marshmallows from Whole Foods

Mr. Kim's plate.

[Lior]

looks marvelous!! HAppy birthday to your daughter!!

[Kim Shook]

looks marvelous!! HAppy birthday to your daughter!!

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Thank you, dear! You've been in my thoughts! Nice to 'see' you!

[Shelby]

KIM, that table of deliciousness is right up my alley. That looks so good!

Lior, I've been thinking about you, too, and hoping you were ok.

[pagosselin]

Last Friday we celebrated our daughter's 25th birthday.  She requested fondue instead of cake and ice cream, so I did Toblerone fondue and caramel with assorted dippers:

apples, pears, strawberries, bananas

thin mints, angelfood & poundcake, dried fruit, meringue cookies, coconut macaroons and some lovely marshmallows from Whole Foods

Mr. Kim's plate.

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Your table looks FABULOUS and DELICIOUS thanks for sharing.

[gfron1]

Mr. Kim is clearly my type of guy - that is a great looking spread!

[Lior]

Thank you K.M. and Shelby!

[RobertM]

I hope this thread is still active next week. I'm hosting a Valentines Day Chocolate Tasting Party (I started another thread somewhere...) and will take pictures of the treats I'm making. My concept is simple - everyone likes Chocolate.

(If not, there is something wrong with them anyway...)

We have three "courses" set; starting with the White Chocolate Course, moving to a Milk Chocolate and finally, the rich, dense Dark Chocolate Course

Each course, paired with a different wine -

In our eyes, good friends, good wine and good chocolate - what more could we ask for???

[Darienne]

what more could we ask for???

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What WE could ask for is a personal invitation to join you.

[RobertM]

Come on over...always room for another sweet tooth/wine lover

[Darienne]

Come on over...always room for another sweet tooth/wine lover

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Thanks, but it's a bit too far, both from Ontario...our home...and from Moab UT where we are now for the next three wonderful sunshine filled months!

Have a good party. We will just have to eat chocolate in Moab. (Brought some with me and am ordering some more today.)

[Tri2Cook]

I hope this thread is still active next week.  I'm hosting a Valentines Day Chocolate Tasting Party (I started another thread somewhere...) and will take pictures of the treats I'm making.  My concept is simple - everyone likes Chocolate.

(If not, there is something wrong with them anyway...)

We have three "courses" set; starting with the White Chocolate Course, moving to a Milk Chocolate and finally, the rich, dense Dark Chocolate Course

Each course, paired with a different wine -

In our eyes, good friends, good wine and good chocolate - what more could we ask for???

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Should be fun, I did something similar last year on V-day at the restaurant after hours for some of our regulars. I did 6 dessert courses built around chocolate (but not spotlighting the chocolate in every course as that would have been a bit much) plus a take-home box of bon bons and homemade chocolate body paint for each person.

[chefpeon]

homemade chocolate body paint for each person.

Now THAT'S effin' cool!

I'm so jealous I haven't thought of that!

[tsquare]

some short scones (with dried cherries and pecans) from the novel "Bread Alone." Bad to read about baking when you go to bed...wake up needing to bake.

[isomer]

Kim Shook, that sweet table looks fantastic! Especially the meringues.

I made these chocolate cheesecake brownies from David Lebovitz's blog. I'm liking them

[gfron1]

delish as ever isomer! And what clean edges (now I'm just harassing you!).

Here are a few recent things.

Butterscotch cheesecake

Inspired by something I had by Adrian Vasquez at Providence, White truffle infused ganache inside of chocolate pasta with blood orange reduction and cracked pepper.

And with the same ganache, I made this lil treat

Edited February 8, 2009 by gfron1 (log)

[Sararwelch]

Gfron1, everything looks amazing! I'm intrigued by that pasta.

I made the meyer lemon and chocolate tart from Sunday Suppers with Lucques. I added candied lemon peel to the top for decoration. This was my first time making a tart, I was pretty happy with it.

[Darienne]

I made the meyer lemon and chocolate tart from Sunday Suppers with Lucques. I added candied lemon peel to the top for decoration. This was my first time making a tart, I was pretty happy with it.

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Bee-oo-ti-ful. I am almost drooling on the keyboard. And the glaceed lemon peel on top...exquisite.

I just bought my first ever Meyer lemons in Albuquerque and am on my way with the candied peel. The lemon innards are in the fridge waiting for just this kind of inspiration.

Wonderful!!!

[Shelby]

Hi everyone! My sweets aren't fancy like all of yours, but the other day I made a rustic cherry tart. It was pretty good. I think I'll make another one for Valentine's Day since I can't go to Rob's Kama Sutra dinner

[CaliPoutine]

Shelby, dont sell yourself short. That is a gorgeous tart. Did you use sour or sweet cherries?

[gfron1]

No kidding - that looks great. A big ball of ice cream and glass of port and I'm a happy camper!

[RobertM]

I think it looks great as well, and gfron1 has the RIGHT idea - a little ice cream, a little Port... who needs anything else?

I'm totally jealous I'm not at the Kama Sutra dinner - am anxiously awaiting news on how it all turned out

[emmalish]

Oh YUM. Shelby that looks great. Beautiful photo too.

[Shelby]

Thanks everyone!!!

Randi, I used sour cherries to which I added sugar and a tad bit of hazelnut liqueur called Frangelico . Oh, and I thickened it with some cornstarch, too.

[Chocolot]

Today I tried out my new Dedy guitar. I made Grewelings Dark and Stormies. The guitar was flawless, unlike my dipping!! 50 years of hand dipping and 5 months of fork dipping. It is sooooo much faster to hand dip, but I will keep fork dipping until I am good and fast! I also see finger prints. Will I ever learn???