Your Daily Sweets (2005-2012)

[A Patric]

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I got a decent shot of my brownies today! 

99% unsweetened Valrhona, Valrhona Guanaja, fleur de sel, cocoa nibs

ETA: better cropping job?

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Dear Ling,

Did you give this recipe somewhere?

I am interested.

By the way, I have baked that Double chocolate cake. I'm waiting for it to cool so that I can ganache-ify it.

Alan

[Ling]

^Certainly! It's my own recipe! Ling's favourite brownies

I just do a basic ganache on top. I just eyeball everything for that.

[Ling]

PH's Nutella tart (with the chocolate almond dough instead of the sweet tart dough...and with E. Guittard L'Harmonie as I'm out of Valrhona at the moment.)

Edited March 2, 2006 by Ling (log)

[tejon]

That tart is simply gorgeous, Ling! Now if only the computer screen allowed a taste .

[little ms foodie]

tonight was simple scoops of Hagen Daaz Dulce de Leche ice cream, the hubby had knee surgery so it was his 'good job' treat

[miladyinsanity]

Today's dessert was a big slice of coffee crumb cake, some blueberry pound cake, and hazelnut chocolate cigarette cookies.

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I thought you said healthy, not hazelnut!

Ice cream, lots of ice cream. My Going To Gym treat.

[Patrick S]

Tonight I'm nibbling on Manjari feves, and having a few spoonfuls of a banana/avacado/citrus sauce I made to accompany something I'm making tomorrow. To be honest I've never been very fond of avacado, so I'm surprised that I like this sauce.

[tb86]

ok how do i post pics ??? computer impared

[Pan]

ok how do i post pics ???[...]

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Click this link.

[alanamoana]

Tonight I'm nibbling on Manjari feves, and having a few spoonfuls of a banana/avacado/citrus sauce I made to accompany something I'm making tomorrow. To be honest I've never been very fond of avacado, so I'm surprised that I like this sauce.

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i don't know if this takes this too off topic patrick, but before i was in the biz and hadn't been exposed to too much "strange" food...my boyfriend's (at the time) sister used to serve this as a salad or starter:

diced avocado, segmented grapefruit and very lightly whipped cream all stirred together. it was delicous. it would work as a dessert also if you lightly sweetened the cream and maybe threw in some vanilla bean to roun out the flavor.

[Ling]

I had a slice of the Nutella tart in the morning, and one after dinner. Also had the rest of the jar of Nutella that I didn't use in the tart (oops...heh heh heh) and maybe 10 or 12 of those chocolate hazelnut cigarette cookies I'm always snacking on.

ETA: forgot about the apple pie with caramel sauce I taught the kids in the cooking class how to make

Edited March 4, 2006 by Ling (log)

[Ling]

Today's dessert was a big slice of coffee crumb cake, some blueberry pound cake, and hazelnut chocolate cigarette cookies.

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I thought you said healthy, not hazelnut!

Ice cream, lots of ice cream. My Going To Gym treat.

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"Healthy" and "Ling" do not fit together in the same sentence.

[Pille]

I had a very simple curd cheese and whipped cream dessert with blueberries last night. Tasty, simple and bordering on the healthy:)

[miladyinsanity]

Today's dessert was a big slice of coffee crumb cake, some blueberry pound cake, and hazelnut chocolate cigarette cookies.

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I thought you said healthy, not hazelnut!

Ice cream, lots of ice cream. My Going To Gym treat.

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"Healthy" and "Ling" do not fit together in the same sentence.

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I know! That was what made me reread the sentence.

More ice cream, hazelnut this time. It's going to be the last time I buy ice cream from this shop. It's good, but I get the feeling that their percentages are wrong. The fat content is so high, it's got that icky feel to it.

[Ling]

I had an apple turnover and those chocolate hazelnut cookies, and also 3 truffles.

I also did a stage at Rare One tonight. I made an adaption of PH's Tarte Grenobloise using Michel Cluizel chocolate, a chocolate pecan sable crust, and the caramel pecans. The only part of the recipe I followed was for the crust. I served it with cardamom cream. It was really exciting working in a professional kitchen during the dinner service.

If you'd like, you can read about my experience here.

Edited March 5, 2006 by Ling (log)

[Ling]

That tart is simply gorgeous, Ling! Now if only the computer screen allowed a taste  .

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Thanks! I gave a few slices to the staff at Rare One, and I also gave some to my friends. I like the Nutella tart, but the Tarte Grenobloise is my favourite chocolate tart from PH so far.

[miladyinsanity]

I had a chocolate macaron (no, it's not part of my failed experiments with macarons as Saturday's attempt didn't even get to whipped egg whites!) and a Daim cake.

[Pan]

What's a Daim cake?

[Ling]

^ Daim cake

[prasantrin]

I had a chocolate macaron (no, it's not part of my failed experiments with macarons as Saturday's attempt didn't even get to whipped egg whites!) and a Daim cake.

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The last time I was in Minneapolis/St. Paul, I bought a Daim cake from Ikea. For a commercially made cake, it was pretty good! I'd have bought some Daim, too, but they were relatively expensive.

I'm still eating my pound cake. I'm a little worried because I'll have to make another one soon--this one is almost gone!

[miladyinsanity]

I had a chocolate macaron (no, it's not part of my failed experiments with macarons as Saturday's attempt didn't even get to whipped egg whites!) and a Daim cake.

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The last time I was in Minneapolis/St. Paul, I bought a Daim cake from Ikea. For a commercially made cake, it was pretty good! I'd have bought some Daim, too, but they were relatively expensive.

I'm still eating my pound cake. I'm a little worried because I'll have to make another one soon--this one is almost gone!

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Hehe.. I was at Ikea.

It's a bit on the sweet side, but like you said, it's pretty good for a commercially made cake.

I was good today. No dessert.

[sazji]

Had my first really nasty cold in a couple years last week, and I just got my sense of smell (and taste) back! To celebrate, I made these apple whatevers with prepared puff pastry.

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[Rehovot]

Dessert was Gingerbread (the three-ginger kind--fresh, candied, powdered); I'm almost certain I got the recipe from this thread, so whoever first mentioned it, thank you, thank you, thank you.

This stuff is excellent for the darkest days of winter (cough--60 degrees F, here, today--cough)....It's just as dense, dark, rich, and doesn't budge easily...just like me in winter (minus the "rich").

[Pille]

Your "apple whatevers" look delicious, Sazji!

Mine wasn't really a dessert as such, but it was sweet and I had it after my tomato soup dinner. So it counts as a dessert, no?

I made crumbly lemon & pistachio cookies, recipe from a donna hay magazine. Very nice. More for breakfast tomorrow:)

[tejon]

Yesterday, I had this for dessert:

Mmmm...dense, rich warm brownie with chocolate sauce, caramel sauce, a "wave" of white chocolate, and billows of whipped cream topped with a sugar cookie surfer. The brownie was rich and chocolatey and the caramel sauce had a wonderful, deep almost burnt sugar flavor. And it made me giggle a little every time I looked at it .