Financiers

Our last post.......till we return from France in early May :)

PerNana:

Nana's "Yankee Doodle" financiers......Taking advantage of some

 of the odds and ends of ingredients left from our   recent recipes, I decided

 to use Dorie's "bonne idee"  and make the chocolate financiers.

I thought this was going to be a tricky recipe but it all came together easily.  

 The most important part was making beurre noisette, and even that 

worked for me.  I lined my mini muffin tins with paper rather than butter 

and flour, and they turned out great. I was afraid they might stick to the 

paper but they didn't. As I was chopping the chocolate into smaller pieces 

I realized that I did not have the 5 ounces called for, so I substituted 2 tsp

 of Hershey's cocoa.  It actually worked quite well and made a lovely ganache.

  When they came out of the oven all I thought about was stuffing them with 

whipped cream- they looked like Drake's Yankee Doodle cupcakes.

I actually did serve some with cream and they were good. 

This is a fun recipe and I am definitely going to the vanilla

 version and see how that works out. 

Per Tricia:

Sorry all, I couldn't swing this even if Nana had delivered my little

 tupperwares  of ingredients this week - but for a very good reason.  

Today is my last work day before taking a 3 week vacation with Nana 

to enjoy France.  Hence the downward spiral in my leaving comments 

(sorry  all !!)  and then being able to even get to the recipe.   Things are 

hectic at work and  home as we plan our adventure and we look forward to

 sharing our adventures when  we return in early May.

I will leave you with photos I took this weekend while waiting for my son

 to take a life guarding class.I took advantage of having to drive him an hour 

away and then kill time - so I  road tripped a bit further to the charming town

 of Lambertville, NJ.  I was stalking looking for the "Canal House Cooks"

 location and hoping they had something open to the public. 

Nothing (yet) open for their fans, but a glorious day to be in a lovely town 

and I did manage some paparazzi shots of their location. They have an 

amazing site & wonderful cookbooks if you have not already checked them out.   www.canalhousecooking.com

  PS- Kathy, the Canal House ladies were at the Bridgewater Commons 

mall's Williams Sonoma a week or two ago, but Nana and I couldn't 

swing it !  But we thought of you !! And Mary- I know you get their lunch
 emails so I was thinking of you as I stalked checked out their place :)