Angel food cake with sweet bay leaf infused caramelized pears, apricot mint sorbet, raspberry lemon thyme coulis, and apricot brandy cream. Served at Sooke Harbour house Wednesday May 12 2004.
Posted in Pastry & Desserts | Tagged angel food cake, apricot, Brandy, coulis, desserts, mint, pears, raspberry lemon thyme, Sooke Harbour House, sweet bay leaf | Leave a commentStrawberry & White chocolate shortcake, with sorrel white chocolate mousse, strawberry lemon verbena sorbet, and strawberry paper crisps. Served at Sooke Harbour house June 2004.
Posted in Pastry & Desserts | Tagged desserts, lemon verbena, paper, shortcake, Sooke Harbour House, sorbet, sorrel, strawberry, white chocolate | Leave a commentSlow baked soft meringue filled with bittersweet chocolate cream, served with fresh local strawberries, a strawberry, lemon hyssop sorbet, crème anglais, tuberous begonia and gentian sage flowers Served at Sooke Harbour house Wednesday August 27 2003
Posted in Pastry & Desserts | Tagged begonia, chocolate, desserts, gentian sage, hyssop, meringue, Sooke Harbour House, sorbet, strawberries | Leave a commentWarm cherry clafoutis with a cherry mint salsa, caramel ribbon ice cream, apricot puree, port reduction and dianthus flower glaze. Served at Sooke Harbour house Tuesday June 22 2004.
Posted in Pastry & Desserts | Tagged apricot, cherry, clafouti, desserts, dianthus, ice cream, mint, port, salsa, Sooke Harbour House | Leave a commentDried sour cherry brioche bread pudding with a maple glazed walnut, cranberry and coriander stuffed baked apple, and Grand Fir caramel, apple cream and hemp seed crisps. Served at Sooke Harbour house Friday September 19 2003.
Posted in Pastry & Desserts | Tagged baked apple, bread pudding, brioche, caramel, coriander, cranberry, desserts, Grand Fir, hemp seed, maple glaze, Sooke Harbour House, sour cherry, walnut | Leave a commentBittersweet chocolate caramel mousse and flourless chocolate cake with golden rosemary infused caramelized pears, earl grey tea crème anglais, apricot fruit sage coulis and filo. Served at Sooke Harbour house April 2004.
Posted in Pastry & Desserts | Tagged apricot, cake, caramel, chocolate, creme anglaise, desserts, earl grey, filo, flourless chocolate, fruit sage, pastry, pears, rosemary, Sooke Harbour House | Leave a commentWhite chocolate mousse filled canolis with stewed strawberries, bittersweet chocolate anise sorbet, blackcurrant and flourless chocolate cake pave and sweet cicely glaze. Served at Sooke Harbour house March 9 2004.
Posted in Pastry & Desserts | Tagged anise, blackcurrant, Cannoli, chocolate, cicely, desserts, flourless chocolate, pave, Sooke Harbour House, sorbet, strawberries | Leave a commentBrown butter hazelnut cake with wild flower honey frozen mousse, blackcurrant grand fir sorbet, marionberry compote and whipped crème freche. Served at Sooke Harbour house March 24 2004.
Posted in Pastry & Desserts | Tagged blackcurrant, cake, desserts, Grand Fir, hazelnut, marionberry, mousse, pastry, Sooke Harbour House, whipped cream, wildflower hone | Leave a commentThe Notebooks of Michel Bras is a book about inspiration, and isn’t really a recipe book or a typical food book (although it does contain almost 90 recipes and lots of culinary suggestions). It functions mainly as a diary of … Read More
Posted in On My Bookshelf | Tagged desserts, michel bras, pastry, seminola | Leave a commentCherry, brown butter, hazelnut cake, with a warm cherry, loganberry, lemon thyme compote, Fromage frais mousse, caramel sauce and sorrel cream. Served at Sooke Harbour house June 2004.
Posted in Pastry & Desserts | Tagged cake, caramel, cherry, desserts, fromage frais, hazelnut, lemon thyme, locanberry, Sooke Harbour House, sorrel | Leave a comment