I'm thankful for new ideas. Especially when they come from corroboration with friends.
Yesterday's FB post looks like this now...I hope you can read it, but have I ever mentioned how much I LOVE Snag It screen capture software? Please don't make me do life without it or Google or Excel or a few thousand other technology tools that I have come to rely on these days!
Well Ms. P/Lucy did stop by yesterday to 'splain her vision...and like so many other visions Ms. P has had, it is genius!
Remember yesterday when I said that I had an idea of how to give K his Double French Silk Pie? Well P's idea combined with the idea I already had going should pretty much rock K's world! Well, as much as any pie can rock K's world, because what really rocks K's world are guns, cars, MVPA (Google it), trains, and his wife, S, and the J-man - not necessarily in that order.
To begin explaining this idea though, we have to step back about 25 years to this cookbook.
Can we say well used? Can we say well loved? Can we say "What cookbook is this, Deb? I can't read the title anywhere!"
Ok, so let's try it this way with a finger from my left hand in the pic...
Yes, folks, this is it! The one and only cookbook that ever changed my life. Here is what it started out looking like. I used to have one of these purrrrty, shiny back jacket cover things. I really did!
It is available on Amazon.com, and if you have any interest in pastry, I cannot recommend this book highly enough. While I may not have the cover, I do still have this treasure...
A moment of silence and reverence please before we move one...
So back to Ms. P/Lucy's idea. Helen Fletcher builds this beautiful meringue masterpiece called a Spanish Windtorte in this book.
It is a dried Italian meringue (you'll have to read her meringue chapter opening to learn more) that is then filled with a chocolate almond pastry filling. The top of this is a cover for the filling inside. You actually use the top swirly poof as a handle to lift off, but have no fear! The entirety is edible!
But get this! Helen Fletcher includes step by step instructions with pictures on how to build this! Here are a couple of pics of assembling the bottom.
Well, I actually made this one time - or really multiple, individual mini versions and took it to Ms. P's for dessert one night. She remembered this. I had just about completely forgotten about it. Until she stopped by my desk yesterday and started to describe it.
And as soon as I realized what she was recalling, I was like - yes! Genius!
I will build a chocolate Italian meringue crust, fill it with the French Silk pie yummy goodness, and then cover the entire thing in the roses. Except (and here is where my idea was) I will fill the pastry bag on one side with a whipped ganache (chocolate and cream yummy goodness) and the other half with a stabilized whipped cream to then pipe striped ganache cream roses all around and over the pie and finally garnished with the shaved chocolate normally seen on a French Silk pie.
Are you exhausted yet just thinking about this?
K, are you excited just thinking about this? Are you feeling the love? Cause you should!
I had better get to work!
G and I have one other thing we are working on this weekend for the Morrison Family 4th Annual Pie Night.
Homemade ice cream.
I'm tellin' ya, G has a serious gift for smoke and ice. And we will get to enjoy the ice part in 5 days. I will share our ice cream recipe that is just about the BEST homemade ice cream I think I ever recall having, even days after it is made, but more on that later. This is just to whet your appetite....
Happy Saturday! Don't ya just love new ideas?!!!
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