Tag Archives: cream

Mini-kadaifi cakes

If you walk into a pastry shop in Beirut (specializing in Arabic sweets), a good third of all pastries will be made with this dough, called kataifi or shredded phyllo dough. I saw  once  how this dough is made: A batter is piped through hundreds of minuscule little holes onto a hot griddle which forms [...]
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Chocolate truffles

Chocolate is such a personal thing. I almost feel the same with chocolate as I do with perfume. I would hesitate to offer someone chocolate (as perfume) unless I knew exactly what they liked. By the way, have you heard of  Le Whif? The idea here is to sniff chocolate scent, getting a high from [...]
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Asparagus and calabasa cream soup

This soup can be consumed as a savory and cold panna cotta or a warm traditional soup. It has the elusive but delicious flavors of asparagus and (in the background) calabasa squash, and not much else. INGREDIENTS: 1 bunch of green asparagus (500 g. or 1 pound) 3 small calabasa squash 2 cups of whipping [...]
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