After tasting the lemon sabayon tart, I now understand why Thomas Keller is reviered as the chef that he is. How could someone turn soemthing as simple as a lemon tart into something so light and fancy. I found that the addition of the pine nut, rounded the tart as a whole off well.

Since my last blog, besides the monthly Daring Baker’s Challenges, I’ve been quite busy with work, going overseas, spending time with friends before they move overseas, and playing/teaching my puppy new tricks. I purchased Max as a Birthday gift for myself, I know it’s quite strange, but just within the week that I’ve had him, he has filled my days with so much joy and happiness. On a side note, here is a Pecan pie recipe with a twist.

This months Daring Bakers Challenge was a tiramisu, but I changed things up a little bit and created a ‘pyramisu’. It’s a tiramisu in a chocolate pyramid, with momofuku inspired cereal milk ice cream and cereal milk crumbs thrown in for good measure.

I know I’m very late in posting up the result of my DBC for this month, however, I have a legitimate reason for this. With the majority of the month spent overseas, I arrived back home 2 days before the posting date was due. Determined not to miss out on another challenge, I finally did the Nanaimo bars [...]

My first experience which soon developed to an obsession with Cannoli started precisely 4 years ago. It was 4 years ago, that I started a new job at a shop which was directly opposite to a beautiful Italian patisserie. Each morning, my request would be a ricotta filled cannoli with a medium cappucino. I can remember precisely how the cannoli tasted, with it’s crispy shell encasing an airy mixture of ricotta cheese, douse in a little sprinkle of icing sugar, it brings back great memories.

For me, Bacon alone symbolises everything that’s good about this world. With its versatility and impossibility of being cooked incorrectly, I’d dare say it’s a fail proof ingredient. There is actually a point to my random babbling about bacon. Sometime last week, I spoke to Billy who mentioned he wanted to try making Macaron with bacon some how incorporated into it. Macaron and Bacon, sweet and salty. Soft and crispy, what a genius combination.

To say that I have a little bit of an obsessive nature is an understatement. I’m one those annoying people that if I don’t know how to do something, I’ll keep trying until I get it right. Once I get it right, I keep doing it until I get sick of it. Unfortunately for my family and friends, throughout the last couple of weeks, the subject of my obsession was macaron.

With such traumatic experiences, you can understand why I was so hesitant in dipping my toes into such a challenge again. Alas, it is the nature of the DBC, over coming your fears, creating things you’d never thought possible and learning from your mistakes.

After 2 hours of baking, I was done. The best part of the whole process was digging in to the millefeuille, the contrasting texture of crispy flaky puff pastry, jellied raspberry, soft airy mousse and the solid white chocolate was a great combination. The flavours from buttery, slightly sour to creamy and sweet also proved popular with the tastebud.

Each week David will select four different desserts which have proven popular throughout Perama’s last 16 years. If you want to sample what we had, get down to Perama before Thursday night, as he changes the dessert selection each week that day. I’m looking forward to the next Glykomezedes at Perama.

The September 2009 Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Steph of A Whisk and a Spoon. She chose the French treat, Vols-au-Vent based on the Puff Pastry recipe by Michel Richard from the cookbook Baking With Julia by Dorie Greenspan.

By now, I think most people will notice how obsessed I am with Japanese food. To say I’m obsessed is probably an understatement, I don’t know what’s stronger than obsessed, but that’s definitely me. Every month, my small group of high school friends try to meet up at least once, just to catch up on work and lack of social life. Trusting my judgement they delegated me the role of choosing the dining venue, suprise suprise, it was Japanese food.