OT What's Cookin'?

[RR7]

Chocolate orange crown cake. Shell is biscuit. Not the kind you put butter on. French biscuit is a butter free sponge cake sturdy enough to pipe with pastry bag. Structure comes from separated eggs and whites beaten to billows.
Inside shell is orange Bavarian cream, a rich custard of milk and egg yolk thickened with whipped cream and unflavored gelatin. Flavored with orange concentrate (fresh squeezed orange juice cooked down to 1/4 the volume), orange zest, and hefty amount of Grand Marnier. On top of that is a layer of lightly whipped chocolate ganache. Then the lid. Served with creme anglaise, pouring custard of egg yolk, cream, Grand Marnier. And with thin slivers of orange zest poached in syrup.

Looks and sounds amazing!

 

[crandc]

For a client so I don't get to taste it. Sampled components.

 

[Chris Craig]

Made some sourdough pretzel bites to bring to a Superbowl gathering yesterday. Turned out great!

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One of my favorite things with some beer cheese dip.

 

[crandc]

Bit of cream left. Lashanna will get a treat.

 

[crandc]

A lot of leftover egg whites after completing chocolate orange crown cake.
One egg white for savory seed brittle, something to sprinkle on salad, vegetables, pasta, grains.
Four for white spice pound cake. I have the ingredients on hand and can make it this weekend.
Remaining three for zucchini cupcakes. I don't have zucchini on hand but it will be part of next week's produce delivery.
Can't cut out sweets but trying to limit myself to one serving a week. These are items I can stash in deep freeze and remove one at a time.
Nothing is ever wasted.

 

[RR7]

Black bean and sweet potato tacos on homemade sourdough tortillas.

 

[crandc]

Sounds fab!