Nestled in my cozy little blog world, I get lazy about leaving and checking out the wider digital world. Well, that changed last night after I decided to check out some of the food blog links on Chez Pim and 101 Cookbooks' lists. Four bleary-eyed hours later (mind you this was after watching Gordon Ramsay on his reality show), I was nearly wiped out but dying to read more food blogs.
Along the way, I ran into a couple of online foodie events which utterly fascinate me: cooking with theme ingredients and everyone shares their experience. How cool is this? Being a newbie, I thought I'd try my hand at Sugar High Fridays. The premise is simple: one Friday every month, a theme ingredient is chosen and everyone who wants to participate simply makes a dessert with the selected ingredient and writes about the experience. On the designated day, everyone submits their stories, emails, pictures, etc.
August's Sugar High Friday is being hosted by Love Sicily, which blog I still have yet to read; but oh joy of joys, the key ingredient is coffee.
I'm a little torn about the possibilities. Coffee desserts are one of my favorite things to make. I'm thinking all sorts of things: a deconstructed café sua da (iced Vietnamese coffee), café liégeios, coffee affogato, or the ever popular espresso pot de crème with honey sabayon.
Speaking of the last -- I called the Four Seasons to get the pastry chef's name (although I've bastardized it repeatedly, I wanted to properly credit him) and managed to scare the hell out of him. He thought he was in some sort of trouble when I asked for the spelling of his name. Why I thought green card problems is beyond me since the man's British. I think I was probably as rattled about upsetting him as he was to get a call from a stranger demanding information about him.
A few minutes of brown-nosing and worshipping at the altar of his pastry genius smoothed the ruffled feathers.
The event takes place on August 12 so I have ten days to figure out what to make.
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