in search of
I just spent an hour looking through 20+ recipes for chocolate mousse. I’m not going to make a molded mousse, but it will be presented more or less in plated fashion. I think the CIA’s tome (The New Professional Chef) has a good standard mousse. Classic mousse. None of this shortcut crap with gelatin (blegh!), or pudding (gasp!).
I haven’t done serious baking in a while. I guess mousse isn’t serious baking, it’s more like beating the hell out of eggs. But flan, baklava, soufflé, pastry cream puffs – that’s a good bit of hands on baking! Fun fun fun.
