Taco night

Tonight: apple charlotte, a candied apple concoction so buttery, even by le cordon bleu standards, I felt that I was contributing to US child obesity just by making the damn thing.  Apple charlotte has huge potential as a recipe and technique to tweak and make a TX version of for use in Ithaca.  As is though, it's the Medusa of diabetes; anyone who so much as looks at it gets Type II.

Also, rice pudding, served in a tuile cookie.  Chef demoed a tuile cookie that was spread like a thin pancake, baked, then shaped over a ramekin until it had a bowl-like shape to it, kind of a pinch pot thing almost.  Garnished with caramel filigree that we cooked, then created and cooled.  Long story short, rather than the boring big bowl, C and I made rice pudding tacos.  Two smaller tuiles, shaped over whisk handles until tacoed out.  Rice pudding in the shell, cinnamon for color, diced kiwi and raspberry for the veggies, a spiral filigree acting as cheese.  The whole class was all up in our business; no lie, at one point there were 4 cameras on our tacos.  And chef loved them, we got 20s.  We were real proud of our tacos and paraded them around to other classrooms.