Friday, May 29, 2009

Shades of Orange

Orange was inspired when i was traveling in the middle east, Cairo.
A city so rich in spices.

The components consist of Pumpkin, mango, curry, tumeric
Mango and curry have always gone quite well together. Sweet mango with a tinge of spiciness.
2 textures of pumpkin; pumpkin beer cake and Pumpkin gnocchi. tinge of tumeric bonbon



Orange
pumpkin beer cake, gnocchi. Kumquat sorbet, mango curry. tumeric

Kumquat sorbet
200g kumquats
100g water
30g sugar

pacojet

Saturday, May 16, 2009

Shades of Purple




SHADES OF PURPLE
Cassis Parfait, Cassis leather, Purple potato puree, blackberry gel, lavender marshmallows. purple potato foam.
sweet beet powder

The combination of savory and sweet in desserts have always been very subjective. However the discovery of purple potato (hugh starch content) and cassis is surprisingly harmonious.

Tuesday, May 5, 2009

shades of RED

At 2am, we have launched 3 new desserts in the "shades" series.

In red, the components are cherry sauce, beet root sponge, cherry white chocolate ganache tart, strawberry pastilles.
This dessert is meant to look provocative.




Cherry White chocolate Ganache

100g Puree
100g cream
500g white chocolate
20g glucose
20g butter

1) Dissolve glucose into cream
2) reduce puree. Add puree to cream
3) Melt white chocolate
4) Pour cream over white chocolate
5) Add butter last