Author Archives: Dan

Bûche de Noël (Yule Log)

Traditional Bûche de Noël, also known as a Yule Log. Genoise cake imbibed with Godiva white chocolate liquor, chocolate butter cream frosting. Swiss meringue mushrooms and snowman decorated with white and dark chocolate. Since some people have been asking for … Continue reading

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Pumpkin and Butternut Squash Ravioli

Pumpkin and Butternut Squash Ravioli with a brown butter and sage sauce. This is the first time we have made ravioli and pasta entirely by hand, so we still need to work on the presentation!

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Chai Ice Cream

Chai infused creme anglaise made into ice cream!

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Pound Cake

Orange pound cake covered with a very intense orange-ginger glaze. Tastes better when eaten out in the ocean!

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Summer Squash and Potato Soup

Squash, potato etc made by cousins!

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Apple, Fig, Brie, Prosciutto Pizza

I was reading foodgawker.com last night, and one of the posts was for a fig, brie, and prosciutto flat bread, so I sent it to my wife for inspiration, and she made a pizza with similar ingredients tonight!  Apple, fig, … Continue reading

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Banana Genoise

Banana genoise made into layers imbibed with caramel, banana purée in the middle and milk chocolate, heavy cream and cognac icing. The little one’s were for my niece (sans cognac). The assembly and handwriting are from Dan, hence the poor … Continue reading

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Pear and Fig Fruit Tart

Pears, figs, raisins, cognac, almonds with a pie crust and almond meringue on top!

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Lemon Pound Cake

Lemon pound cake with lemon glaze, tart and yummy!  

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Apple Tart

For this one I added some pictures of the “making-of” below.  Tart crust with apple mixture in middle and sliced apples on top.

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