Thursday, April 10, 2008

EgG tArTs

My husband asked me this morning, what's the difference between french vanilla and vanilla?
I had no idea so i went to the wonderful world of wikipedia and did a little research. French vanilla is not it's own time of vanilla, items termed 'french vanilla' are called this because they have gone under some preparation using vanilla and now carry a strong taste and/or aroma of vanilla and will also contain the vanilla-bean grains. It began with the french style of making ice cream with a vanilla custard base, soon followed the french vanilla syrup that aside from the rich flavor of vanilla custard (french vanilla's importance is the vanilla custard taste) also may contain the flavors of caramel and butterscotch (wikipedia).

So, the vanilla wiki article had many little links and i was able to look up creme brulee which is my favorite dessert, (besides cake in most forms), and learned as i suspected that creme brulee is the term for burnt cream. I also learned of the egg tart that is popular among China and some European countries. I think i am going to experiment with the egg tart to come up with some sort of interesting compact breakfast food. I was thinking i would try a sweet sausage and tomato egg tart, with a little rosemary too.

2 comments:

Leslie said...

I*m going to school to be a pastry chef. Oh oh!! Let me know what you come up with for breakfast! That sounds yummy!

Provoking Puppet said...

thanks, i'll let you know how it goes :-)