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By: SaltShaker » Blog Archive » Catch-Up

SaltShaker » Blog Archive » Catch-Up — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 13:47:59 +0000

[...] Some of you will remember my oath to not plan any more vegetarian dinners. However, I was teaching a class on vegetarian cooking, and a young couple asked if I might consider offering one. I told them my rambling story of why I no longer do so, and they asserted that if I ever did plan one, they’d show up. I got to thinking – I don’t want to commit a weekend, Friday and Saturday, to it, because it’s never worked out – however, why not add an extra night, a Thursday, and see if it filled – if it didn’t, we’d simply cancel it, or go through with it, depending on how many people, and it wouldn’t leave us with an empty weekend. So, I contacted them, we picked a date… and it promptly filled up, though we had two last minute cancellations again. Not everyone who came was vegetarian, but several were, including the couple who asked me to plan it (though, once again, not one of the other people who regularly asks about these and/or swears that they will come if we offer one), and I think folks were happy. We offered up braised leeks with mustard and romesco sauces, an eggplant soup with pickled fennel, a cheese filled polenta grassa with slow cooked chicory and mushrooms, a chickpea and tomato stew, and these lovely little chocolate and lemon tarts made with a cocoa crust. [...]

By: SaltShaker » Blog Archive » Taíno Take-off

SaltShaker » Blog Archive » Taíno Take-off — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 16:06:03 +0000

[...] mango and chocolate tart – just because – and mango fits the theme, right? The crust, the simple cocoa based one that I’ve used many times before, likewise the ganache topping. [...]

By: SaltShaker » Blog Archive » It Worked!

SaltShaker » Blog Archive » It Worked! — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 21:36:49 +0000

[...] makes the dessert very rich and very intense. So, I took the crust and the ganache topping from the chocolate passionfruit tart, and, as I commented below the original posting, decided to sandwich within them, the lemon kiss [...]

By: dan

dan — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:09:12 +0000

You’re welcome. It also started me thinking about chocolate and lemon desserts, which I tend to like, and another non-obvious combination. I got on to thinking about the Lemon Kiss Pie that I’ve made a few times and which people love when they have it, and hmmm… what if I changed the bottom crust to this cocoa one, and topped the whole pie (perhaps a thinner layer of the lemon filling) with a layer of bittersweet chocolate ganache. It has me salivating thinking about it, and it might just fit into one of those “ultimate decadence” sort of things…

By: Stovetop Traveler

Stovetop Traveler — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 06:59:38 +0000

My single favorite chocolate indulgence in the world is a passionfruit truffle that I get in a chocolate shop in Victoria B.C. Chocolate and passionfruit are not an obvious combination, but once you try it you will be hooked. This looks amazing, thanks for posting the recipe.