Bread like a cake…
A creamy rye bread dough (2/3 bread flour, 1/3 white flour), plus cane sugar, plus lots of cinnamon, plus sesame, plus cocoa mass (100%) chips, plus dry apricots…
Topped with almond slices, cinnamon, sugar.
I’ve let raise too much before baking, but only the shape is affected.
It’s even better the next days… if there is some left.
Favorite desserts and sweet treats of the passed year.
Chocolats au caramel salé (melty salty fudge choco sweets)
Tarte automne-été aux trois fruits (Summer-Fall triple pie)
tarte au sucre lorraine (gran’s sugar bread)
Le nouveau gâteau truffe au chocolat , with soy yogurt
Sesame jewels. The Chinatown treat home-made.
So simple walnut brownie ice cream
Sakura an-pan, blossom sweet bread
A delicious brioche sweet bread, ideal fruity treat for the season.
It’s garnished with one of these superb akibae apples.
To get a delicious fluffy dough, the main ingredient is time.
One day, you mix yeast, sugar, water and flour to make a sponge. The next day, you make a dough. Two days later you bake it. The net day you enjoy the delight.
300 g bread flour
1/2 cup of yeast “sponge”.
40 g sugar
80 g butter
1 egg + 1 white
about a cup of milk
It’s filled with cubes of apple, many. Also, cocoa chips, Grand-Marnier soaked raisins, cinnamon.
On top, sliced almonds, sugar, cinnamon.
Really, be patient, as it gets so much better a whole day after baking.
There were 2 sweets I liked a lot as a kid.
1. After-Eight : mint in dark chocolate.
2. Oursons : marshmallow teddy bears in dark chocolate.
I can do a fusion of the two, no ? Well, in theory.
I pounded into paste a good amount of peppermint, added marshmallows, heat them just enough to melt, stirred…
Filled chocolate in the mold. Let dry overnight, added the marshmallow cooled, later added chocolate, waited…
Ah.
But they taste great ! If anybody has tips to take out the bears from the mold without breaking them, I’m taking. I tried making a thicker chocolate case, but that’s not so good. I tried molding the marshmallow so I’d dip it in chocolate after, but it stuck totally on the mold too. I’m too clumsy, it seems.
Today’s lunch is Mexican style and plant based. I tried to make it not spicy for a guest not fan of hot chilis but, but…
Home-made whole wheat tortillas
Azuki beans, simmered with red wine, paprika, onion, garlic, a few shishito peppers, lots of cumin, thyme, a little cinnamon, nutmeg, black pepper, olive oil.
Mitsuba leaves, grilled shishito and avocado.
The idea is to fill the tortillas with beans and these greens.
Problem : Shishito peppers are usually not spicier than bell peppers. But it’s the end of Summer, and these are relatively hot… That’s great for me, not for those that have a sensitivity to hot peppers.
Side dish : okonomiyaki cabbage. Well it’s simply stir-fried with garlic and ginger, then flavored with sauce (Bulldog) for okonomiyaki.
As a dessert, double chocolate muffins :
GOURMANDE in OSAKA 