A Sooke Harbour house honey and lemon roasted nectarine, with burnt peach ice cream, blueberry and candied ginger butter cake, spiced blueberry compote, and ice wine sabayon.
Served at Sooke Harbour house Tuesday September 30 2003.
Professional wedding photographer Dan Fontaine sent us these beautiful photos of the Sweet Thea cake from the wedding of Yvonne Chow and David Tieu, July 26, 2008. Sometimes Thea enjoys working on a cake so much she gives it a name – this beauty is Mabel:
Lemon eucalyptus poached pear with toasted hazelnut dacquoise and dark chocolate granache cake, a chocolate and rosemary cream filled flute, a pear and mint puree, and crème anglais.
Served at Sooke Harbour house Tuesday September 30 2003.
Spago is an over-the-top Las Vegas restaurant (owned by Wolfgang Puck), so naturally all the desserts in this book are deliciously outrageous as well.
I have made quite a few recipes from this book, and don’t have even a minor criticism – they all work, and they all taste great. Some of the recipes I use [...]
Today I created 5 desserts for the Club’s regular dessert tray – this is how they looked in the kitchen, before they were plated. This is my first try at photoing pastries in a commercial kitchen under bad lighting – sorry about the quality, I am sure a little practice will improve my photos!
MAPLE [...]
‘French pastry: Tradition and Evolution’ is the first professional book I ever bought, on the advice of my mentor and instructor, Chef George Wagner.
Bellouet was a teacher at the Lenotre Ecole, one of the top pastry schools in the world, and George recommended this book because it has some really good foundation recipes.
At 200 pages, [...]
location: Shun Feng Seafood Restaurant, Richmond, B.C. (where is that?)
photographer: Dan Fontaine, Dan Fontaine Photography
guests: 100
Mabel:
one tier is Lemon & Fresh Raspberry Bavarian Cake, the other 2 tiers are fake cake . Also served cupcakes - Lemon with Vanilla & Raspberry Buttercream