ルージュ Rouge
ルージュ Rouge is a piece which I made for EAT AND MAKE TAU HUAY DAY that took place more than 1 month back, which I’d initiated in response to the Diner en Blanc Singapore saga. Forgiven but not forgotten. The intention then was to “atasified”, i.e. make more haute, a simple dessert like the asian soya bean pudding. The word on the street then was, ” if panna cotta could make it onto the tableaux blanc, why not tau huay?” So naturally, the first image I have in my head is naturally a rather “cliche” version of tau huay disguised as panna cotta, supported by various “coulified” and macerated berries spiked with liqueur. Surely this would be worthy of Diner en Blanc!
Pierre Hermé’s Ispahan
Talk about french baking and macarons easily comes to mind. And the one name that is almost synonymously equated to macarons is Pierre Hermé. The celebrated French patissier is renowned and worshipped around the world by dessert and sweets afficionados for his edible masterpieces. Enshrined as the “Picasso of Patissiers”, the one creation which is most often tagged onto him is the Ispahan.
7-cm wide macaron shells in brilliant pink enclosed with a mélange of fresh raspberries, canned lychees and rose petal buttercream, this must had been one of the most bizzare-sounding desserts on the menu that Pierre Hermé created when he was still with Laduree. He is afterall a revolutionary in the French culinary scene, constantly introducing mind-boggling ideas for desserts and patisseries which come in bewildering combinations of flavours or presentation that inspires to astound the world both visually and gastronomically!
travellingfoodies 