it's finally done.

well i finished my fall menu...finally. there are only two desserts that i originally had planned on putting on there. so here's the final cut:

vanilla risotto rice pudding, wrapped in a coconut tuile with persimmon paper and curry ice cream.

warm caramel meringue on caramelized almond cake with spiced apples, apple cider reduction and brandy vanilla ice cream .

tonka bean chocolate ganache with pistachio powder, chocolate salt tuile, white truffle chocolate ice cream and butternut squash caviar.
and of course my pop rocks bomb is still on the menu.
so my fall menu is done and now i just have to go through the task of baking tuiles everyday. which is not my favorite thing in the world.

i received a really amazing compliment on saturday night. there was a couple eating dinner and they had a tasting and i went out and explained my desserts...the usual. anyways...the wife came up to me on there way out and told me that they have been coming to aurora for 6 years and that this was the first time that she thought they ever actually had a pastry chef. she just thought i was so talented and unique. when i hear stuff like that it really makes all the bullshit that i go through worth it.

i think i may be going back to nashville in january for the weekend. totes stoked about that even though it may be a very awkward wedding. i need to find a date.