This dessert always makes me feel like I’m at a ski lodge relaxing in a so-comfortable-I-can’t-get-out-of-it oversized chair soaking up the warmth of a blazing hearth fire. I’m wrapped in a warm blanket; all snuggled in and watching the snow lovers outside through ceiling high windows. This is actually a little more than a feeling; it’s the usual scenario when someone has coerced me into going skiing. I love snow. It’s a vision to behold; beautiful in paintings and photographs and definitely from inside a nice and cozy ski lodge. And it makes great ambience for tonic beverages like Pistachio Honey Superfood Tonic and this dessert. I just don’t like being right in […]
Elegant Whipped Lavender Berry Mousse
There seems to be some confusion these days in identifying a true mousse from a pudding. Seems everyone is calling their beautiful rich dessert “mousse”. But is it the true blue French dessert whose brilliant texture lingers on the palette long after it’s gone? I wanted to create a mousse but a true mousse in every sense of the word, one that could stand proud to its name. In order to do that I had to understand exactly what defined this delicious dessert. After some reading and a visit to a French eatery I discovered that while the differences between a pudding and a mousse are subtle, they are in […]