I’ve been wondering why Barry Manilow’s “I Write the Songs” has been going through my head for the past week. I think it’s because I read on Chowhound that a particular dessert made Julia Child cry on her television program (okay, so maybe that makes no sense to any of you, but the connection is very clear to me!). Today I tried to make part of that dessert. It’s the Brioche Tart from the Baking with Julia book, an outstanding cookbook if you like to, you know, BAKE:
The filling is a creme fraiche mixture. The result is sweet and creamy yet chewy because of the brioche bread. Yum. You can make it with a special secret sauce, but just reading the recipe for it exhausted me, so I opted to leave the brioche tart plain. Maybe that is why it did not make me or Peter cry.
I guess I wasn’t clear enough in my post from yesterday. SOME, not all, of the Rowan yarn was 50 percent off. If the All Seasons Cotton or Calmer had been half off, you can bet I’d have been all over it!
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yummy, i feel like crying because I didn’t get any! It looks fantastic, you’re so adventurous with your baking.
OMG! I think I’m going to cry just looking at it from here at my computer. It looks like the world’s most elegant and humongous danish. Yum! That is a great, great book.
Man, some of these days I’m gonna get me a kick-ass Kitchen Aid & make brioche! Creme fraiche! Looks deeelicious.
Oh my that tart looks yummy. I may have to buy the book and try it out. If only it could be as easy to trade baked goods as it is to trade yarn…
I have to tell you that you are inspiring me. After seeing your chocolate chip cookies the other day, I was forced to make some for my (clearing throat) family. Yeah right, family. Now I am tempted, well tempted to dream about the brioche. I don’t see one in my future anytime soon.
By the way, I stopped by your brother’s site. I am pulling for him. What a tough break.
Yeah, Jessica is totally right–it does look like a huge danish! A beautiful one. Yum!
Where do you put all those baked goods? Do you…eat them all?? Or give things away?
I made cookies on Sunday too, thanks to your inspiration.
Hope everything is going as well as can be expected for your brother!
Ah, Barry. Saw him singing “I Write the Songs” on a t.v. concert special here in Tokyo last week! He did not sound good…disappointing. 🙁 But the Brioche looks great!
I’m coming to visit. That thing looks as if it might be the cure for cancer?!?!?!????? You should experiment on me and Sashi….you never know!
Your pictures of baked goods are making me cry. I have the damned book, but that alone gets me nowhere….
and I thought brioche was just a stitch….
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