Menuism Review: Rustica Bakery

Today's breakfast; a Kouign Amann and a Chocolate Croissant from Rustica Bakery. I actually only ate a bite of the Kouign Amann on the right, but they made a pretty picture together. They were both delicious. I am guessing they would have even been better if I had ate them yesterday. The Kouign Amann reminds me of the American Tea Cake at A Baker's Wife. They are so good that I actually went out on the web to find a recipe for them. It looks a little tricky to make, but one of these days expect to see them here fresh from my oven!

I have a short review of Rustica on Menuism.

French Friday's with Dorie: Paris Mushroom Soup

As I said in an earlier post I have joined a group called French Fridays with Dorie. Together we are working our way through Dorie Greenspan’s book “Around My French Table”(AMFT). This week's recipe is Paris Mushroom Soup (page 72). It was a fairly simple recipe to make. Next time I need to refine my technique, but it came out very well.

The recipe calls for making a “salad” and putting the soup over it. I quite liked the play of textures that gave. To go along with the soup we had Levain Bread from Rustica Bakery with White Bean Dip from Surdyk’s. It was a lovely accompaniment!

Now the soup was supposed to have crème fraîche on top of it and Dorie has a recipe for it on page 491. I had all the ingredients so I made some. I suppose that means this was the first recipe I made from AMFT, but we will just let that go. When I checked it yesterday morning it didn't seem right. So I bought some when I was out yesterday afternoon. Well I completely forgot to put it on the soup! Then, last night, when I checked the crème fraîche I had made at home it seemed ready. It has a more sour smell than the store bought, but it tastes about the same. The only problem is that now I have a lot of crème fraîche to use up!