La Peche qui brule
November 16, 2004
That was the title of the smoldering peach course on that eventually sultry August evening. We placed the carmelised peaches on the pôts de creme au chocolate brulée. You can’t eat one without eating the other.
And that’s exactly what a French speaker would say, ‘You can’t heat one without heating the other.’
As with the previous slideshow, these photos are courtesy of Kristine Malden.
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The Banquet Years
Guess what we did last summer… we had a banquet!
Maybe because my last entry looked so pitiful, the colourful cakes and the leaden November sky. I thought it was high time to upload some images from this summer’s culinary activities - and not just to some dank place in the culiblog archives.
As a community we ate off two, 8 metre long rolls of homemade pasta lasagna, into which sage and beet leaves had been pressed (see composite photo above) and when we were done, we rolled up the entire table.
Click for the slideshow here. The images in it are all photographs by Kristine Malden, a friend who thankfully was our guest that August evening.
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Aunti-Cakes, Anti-Cakes
November 15, 2004
Baker’s man! Gawd they’re pretty, these (fake) cakes from de Taart van mijn Tante (My Auntie’s Cake/Recipe) displayed in the tea room of the patisserie on the Ferdinand Bolstraat in Amsterdam. My aunties, fabulous cooks and bakers though they are, wouldn’t dream of baking such cakes, too much White Death (sugar). My aunties’ cakes are more likely to be made with persimmons (kaki fruit). Homegrown persimmons.
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