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Let's make delicious croissants!

16/1/2014

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Homemade Croissants Recipe
Eating a sweet buttery croissant is quite something, but making your own croissant dough is another story. And let me tell you that story!
This year, I have decided to try my hand at one new recipe per week at least. I know some of those recipes will be small challenges because they could have techniques or flavours I do not know, or be of a type of world cuisine I have never experimented (with cooking it at least).
One recipe I had tried before but turned out to be a disaster (because the instructions were completely wrong may I say...) was making my own croissants. And when I say disaster, it was one of the buttery kinds. My work surface was completely covered in melted butter. Because, you see, the recipe was telling me to do all the four turns of dough in one go, with no resting time in the fridge in between. The croissants turned out to be more like little brioches in crescent shapes. Well, they were edible and alright so that is one thing I guess. But they were not croissants!
Then, I tried another recipe but this time, it had too much liquid in the list of ingredients (probably a mistake...) so the dough was all gloopy. I ended up having to add more flour and it made the croissants texture more like a brioche again.
After a few trials last week (and many croissants and pains au chocolat eaten; don't worry, I shared them all with friends!), I finally came up with something that works. Very obviously, croissants are not my own creation (its creation goes as back as the 13th century actually...) but for me to be happy with how they turned out, I mixed bits of recipes here and there, et voilà!
Delicious sweet, puffy and buttery croissants!

And here is the recipe for it!
On that note, I am off to eat my homemade croissants with some delicious creamery butter and raspberry jam.
Happy croissanting!

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2014: let's do this!

3/1/2014

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Happy New Year 2014 - On blog www.cremedecitron.com
Happy New Year 2014 to all of you my lovely readers!! May it be filled with a lot of happiness, great moments in life, wonderful discoveries, beautiful travels, good health and most of all plenty of delicious food!

It somehow feels like 2013 was a bit shaky here and there. Don't get me wrong, it also brought a lot of good things!
But I want to make 2014 even better. And when there is a will... It will involve a lot more photography, some wonderful happenings and also personal challenges.
I already started on my professional website with a little photography project for the year 2014 where I will capture a moment, thing, or event once a day and then blog the images one by one (not especially one a day since there are days that need to be spent elsewhere than at a desk with a computer...). Follow me there if you want to see the 365 images as I go.

And in the next few weeks, I will also tell you more about some work I have been doing with my lovely friend and great food stylist Jette Virdi.

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