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11/20/2002 Entry: "Les Buches -- Yule Logs"

Just in time for Christmas, we learned to make different 'buches' or log cakes today. We made two types of buches -- Būche ą la Mangue et Ą la Framboise (with mango and raspberry) et Būche Suprźme Chocolat-Vanille (chocolate ganache and vanilla mousse). Today didn't go extremely well. I was in charge of the mango mousseline, and I was ahead of everyone in the beginning -- everything was going well. As I was about to freeze the mousseline, my chef took one look at it, dipped his finger in and tasted it, and had this ridiculous look on his face. "Am zorry, bat you av to repeet. Zer iz zomezing wrong wiz it." True enough, I had put too little mango puree. We were supposed to triple the recipe since we were working in groups. I tripled everything except for the mango puree. This is just one of the many disasters our group had experienced today. Our chocolate mousse hardened too quickly and my groupmate had to redo that as well. We forgot to make the crumble for our buche so we had to scrounge for some from other groups. Then our buche was falling apart as we were decorating it. So I'm not so happy with this -- as you can see from the picture, it is quite messy. We didn't really have time to make it really nice. I only have one buche here because we're not done with the chocolate one yet. On a happier note, I was able to open a French bank account today, using my primitive French skills! :)

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hi karen, cool page :)

your buche story is funny!

Posted by Andre @ 11/21/2002 07:08 PM PST