Thursday, March 06, 2008

Pear and chocolate tart

 Pear and chocolate tart
Am I on a kitchen-blog-roll (gosh this sounds like a weird sentence)? No, simply so many recipe I wanted to share ... but it was so painfully slow with the old mac. Or better sort of boring, now I can enjoy listening to music (Midnight by Joe Satriani right now) while downloading something and writing my blog. A luxury ... but a nice one.

(now music moves to Patience by George Michael ... reminiscence of my youth)

I wanted to share this recipe for a while now. I found it in an old number of Cucina Moderna, an Italian magazine we used to be subscribed to. I liked more than Elke ... but I honestly love the pear and bitter chocolate combination. Elke prefers less bitter chocolate. Next time I will use a sweeter 55% chocolate instead of the 80% one ... and she will love this tart too.

Do not be fooled by its appearance .... it is, like all other desserts, rather caloric and not very filling!

(Me. & Mrs. Jones by Ami Winehouse playing .. gosh like a step back in time)

PS: I think I forgot to follow up on some meme ... if so, please remind me and my apologies.

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Blogger Kate / Kajal said...

Francesco ... u are a Tiesto fan too ! wow finally some one/. K now i can go on n on abt this so its better i mail u. But as for the pear n chocolate tart .... it looks gorgeous as all your food always does. And hey i had my Joe Satriani phase too , with Led Zep n all ... but now its all Trance.

7:27 PM  
Blogger The Food Traveller said...

Well, satriani is a top guitarist.

DjTiesto is a legend ... in his own country (The Netherlands where i work and lived), where trance is rather popular. There are quite some good DJs there.

Led Zeppelin ... did not fancy too much.

In general I have a very diverse musical taste. All but not trash-rock! In fact, I love jazz as much as trance and rock!

7:31 PM  
Blogger The Food Traveller said...

Maryann - that was just the tart cooling down on our terrace (since it is rather cold it goes faster there ;-) )

7:45 PM  
Blogger Lory said...

Anch'io come Elke avrei scelto un cioccolato meno forte,ma questione di gusto,il binomio ciocco pere io lo adoro;-)Magari con un pò di salsa al caramello leggermente salato speziato!
Ho fatto un ordine in un negozio francese online,aspetta che mi arrivano le cosine ordinate, poi vedrai che combinerò prossimamente,già rido al pensiero ;-))
Francesco è davvero un'altra musica adesso ehhh,ora corri con i pattini, e financo ascoltando la musica..ahahahah!

7:50 AM  
Anonymous massimo.b said...

Me & Mrs Jones - try the definitive live Hall & Oates version.

9:04 AM  
Blogger The Food Traveller said...

Thanks for the typo fix massimo ....

Lory - aspetto aspetto!!!

9:28 AM  
Blogger elisa said...

che meraviglia..anche per me un cioccolato meno amaro, please...ti diverti di più ora con il nuovo mac, eh??

2:49 PM  
Blogger The Food Traveller said...

Il nuovo mac e' una meraviglia!

3:18 PM  
Blogger comidademama said...

Sto iniziando lentamente ad apprezzare il cioccolato al latte.
Anzi, meglio, me sto mangiando pochissimo, meno male.Questa torta è bellissima, in ogni caso.

8:59 AM  
Blogger sciopina said...

Ciao!
La storia del cioccolato fondente e' presente anche a casa mia..
Io adoro quello amaro anche al 90%..LUI quello al latte ..devo sempre trovare il giusto compromesso.
La torta di pere e' fantastica, ne faccio una con le scorzette d'arancia nella pasta frolla e lo zenzero..ci sta da dio....
a presto
sciopina

1:54 PM  
Blogger The Food Traveller said...

Sciopina - voglio la ricetta!!! Io ho fatto anche un marble pere e cioccolato, ma non e; uscito molto marble. Magari stasera ci riprovo o faccio qualcosa con il macha (visto che un amica me lo ha dato).

2:13 PM  
Blogger Proud Italian Cook said...

This looks amazing, chocolate and pears, sooo delicious!!

3:47 AM  

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