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On happiness, CAP pâtissier and a tart - Tarte chocolat au lait et fruit de la passion, ananas rôti

tart-passion-fruit-chocolate-pineapple-front.jpgThis past Monday. Yesterday, in fact. I made a choice. One of the most critical choices I’ve ever been confronted to. The kind of choices that leaves you in an uncanny state of uncertainty; but definitely one that makes you happy, one that you can’t help but think about – days and nights and every second in between -, one that comes with a CAP (Certificat d’Aptitude Professionelle) pâtissier, chocolatier et glacier.

The tart. What can I say? An insanely delicious passion fruit ganache encased in a crisp pâte sucrée shell and topped with syrupy pineapple dices […]

Réussir la pâte feuilletée, pas à pas - Mastering puff pastry, step by step

pate feuilletee - puff pastryIf you know how to use a rolling pin, then you know how to make pâte feuilletée. This could be the tagline of this pâte feuilletée 101 post.

For those of you who don’t know it yet, pâte feuilletée [literally, layered dough] – pat fe-yeah-teh – is the French for puff pastry, a fine and versatile pastry used in many pâtisseries and baked good: from mille-feuilles to flans. It consists in a basic dough, the détrempedeh-tramp – spread with a good share of beurre maniébear man-yeah –, then successively folded and rolled out […]

Best(est) side of homemade pâte feuilletée - Des presque palmiers crousti-caramélisés

palmierPâte feuilletée [puff pastry] is one of those things that people don’t make, ahem, very often. You might, which you should be blessed for; but so far, I haven’t met anyone who doesn’t rely on store-bought puff pastry. I guess this is okay for most of us; I have to admit that whenever I have a tart craving and no time to make puff pastry, I prefer to quickly put a simple pâte brisée together and get on with the filling comme si de rien était.

However, come over on a Sunday morning and you’re likely to find me making pâte feuilletée […]

Je n’ai jamais mangé de pyjama aussi doux que le tien - Cheesecake très vanille

[I never ate sweeter pyjamas than yours – Very vanilla cheesecake]

Saturday. 8am.
The soft noise of the raindrops hitting the window gently wakes me up, making me more and more aware of the pressure of the thick duvet cover (love*love that word so much; reminds me of someone special who taught it to me) against my […]

Hoping for happy accidents - Le clafoutis de ma grand-mère

[Hoping for happy accidents - My grand-mother’s clafoutis]

It all happens on purpose. A few months ago, I came across a couple of old notebooks. Notebooks I once valued as precious. Notebooks I wouldn’t go anywhere without. Notebooks I recorded my food-related ideas into. Notebooks that I thought would turn into a book.
Then, I suddenly realised […]