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Showing posts with label Pain de Sucre. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pain de Sucre. Show all posts
Thursday, December 6, 2007
Just desserts today. And what incredible desserts they are!
PAIN DE SUCRE in the Marais only creates the unexpected.
PAIN DE SUCRE in the Marais only creates the unexpected.
They have a strong sense of pastry geometry too - one of my passions.And they LOVE the SQUARE!
Of course marshmallows/guimauve are normally square..but in flavors of green Matcha tea or Orange flower or saffron..?
This is unexpected.
Pastry chefs, Didier Mathray & Nathalie Robert take the everyday Provencal almond-paste delicacy called a "calisson" and make it square with added candied oranges.
Look at this absolutely perfect raspberry squared tarte! Their fruits are the best to be had too.
More perfect squares of deliciousness...
AH HA! Now these squares begin to look a bit like Sicilian pizza non?
Like tomato with Rosemary popping out of it!
And here sliced figs with more Rosemary! Extraordinary don't you agree?
Recently a reader wrote that she'd hung around Paris Breakfasts for a month and thought there must be more to Paris than "LOLLIES IN SHOPS".
Recently a reader wrote that she'd hung around Paris Breakfasts for a month and thought there must be more to Paris than "LOLLIES IN SHOPS".
She was moving on.
But she promised to come back in a month to see if I had moved on from "LOLLIES IN SHOP".
I looked it up - a mostly New Zealand expression for lollie pops in candy shops.
Some of the most creative artists on the planet are creating exceptional lollies in shops. And PAIN DE SUCRE is one of them along with Pierre Herme and Gerard Mulot and...and...and...
See! PAIN DE SUCRE can do beautiful, surprising round pastries too...Do you think I should move on?
Shall we take a vote?
Monday, November 26, 2007
This last trip to Paris I learned to love GUIMAUVE!
These chocolate-covered guimauve or marshmallows are called "Nounours" at patisserie PAIN DE SUCRE. Nounours after the chocolate covered bears made by HARIBO - les nounours à la guimauve, for kiddiwinks.
A great fuss is made over marshmallows in France...
Here they are in PAIN DE SUCRE's windows in exotic flavors - safron and cassis. I nearly got arrested for taking this picture...again!
Chocolatier Gerard Mulot has them too.
Boissier in multi-colors and multi-flavors.
I bought a packet of these guimauve tied up in knots at La Mere de Famille, planning to paint them... I ate them instead.
These distant relatives to our American marshmallows march to a different tune. They are less sugary and come in many, many subtle flavors. Plus they cost A LOT MORE than their US cousins!
The best way I can describe them is to imagine you are biting into a pastel Laduree box...
There were piles of them at the Salon du Chocolat.
And they come covered in dark and white chocolate too. I love the way the French take a kid's candy and make it sophisticated. They give it a witty twist that engages your mind as well as your taste buds...
I couldn't not show you these HELLO KITTY guimauve! Anyone know where you can find guimauve in the US?
Dean & Deluca used to have them..no more :(
Marcolini does have them at $13 a pop :(
Just to clarify -
Guimauve is the Audrey Hepburn of marshmallows!
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