April 28, 2017April 28, 2017A Day in the Life, At Our Cafe Strawberries. Chocolate. I’m making a small number of chocolate-dipped strawberries, just for today. Stop in for a taste of early Summer! What shall I […]
April 21, 2017A Day in the Life Tempering some of my precious stock of FInca Los Ujuxtes white chocolate from Guatemala. Then, I’x Jaguar bars (equally precious). Dealing with cacao and chocolate isn’t necessarily trivial. I just received the following email from my friend Carlos of Danta Chocolate in […]
April 20, 2017A Day in the Life, Past is Passed Sipping Kukicha (very green Japanese) tea. Preparing chocolates for this evening’s Chocolate & Wine class at WineNot Boutique in Nashua.
April 19, 2017A Day in the Life, Past is Passed Time to make croissant dough for the weekend… butter, flour, milk, yeast, and more butter! We make a limited number of Traditional, Chocolate, and Chocolate-Almond croissants, and most are reserved in advance. Call us to reserve yours! […]
April 15, 2017A Day in the Life, Past is Passed Making Bonbon Sharing Boxes for Easter, then tempering Honduran chocolate for truffles. It’s a Dave Brubeck kind of morning. Blood orange and @GreatNorthAleworks Vanilla Porter truffles.
April 12, 2017A Day in the Life, Past is Passed Tempering Liona, then Maranon Canyon 100%. Finishing Persian Eggs (Liona with a marshmallow “white” and passion fruit ganache “yolk.” Making almond gianduja, as well as caramelized blood orange ganache. Many things.
April 12, 2017April 13, 2017A Day in the Life Ingredients. Fresh tangerines for the candying… and drying… and pureeing.
April 2, 2017A Day in the Life, Past is Passed Simmering Italian blood orange pulp with brown sugar and Calvados apple brandy. Not entirely sure what I’ll do with it yet, but it’s certain to taste good.