Crazy for Custards

Egg, egg and more egg! Oh, and lets not forget the heavy cream and carmelized sugar.. Mmmmm , no one said it was nutritious. :-)

We made Flan today, as well as Pots de Creme and Panna Cotta. I don't  have finished product pictures for you today  because we are yet to finish up our Creme Brulee from the other day.  Tomorrow will be a Creamy kind of day. LOVE!  Many pics to come Friday, I promise.

Since we prepped the flan today I put a few images of that for you. You start by creating your caramel which will sit on the bottoms of your ramekins. To make, just add an ounce of water to your sugar, let it boil and turn brown in color.. make sure you don't keep it on too long as burnt caramel does not taste good and will ruin the flavor in your custard.  We then created the flan which again is egg, sugar, little salt, milk and vanilla to taste. Once you have created that, you will strain your liquid and fill your ramekins. We used tin since we are taking these home, but the ramekins come in awesome shapes and designs. Love Crate and Barrel! You can get them there for a relatively good price for a set of 6.

Pots of Creme is made similarly, tempering the hot milk into the eggs. We mixed it with some milk chocolate.. YUMM... It uses heavy cream instead of milk.  I can not wait to taste this. A friend of mine tasted hers today and she said it was awesome!

Panna Cotta was INTERESTING. It uses gelatin. Do we all know where gelatin comes from? I found out today and would like to spare myself the constant reminder because I love gummy bears!! Anyhow, sorry about that..Panna Cotta is white in color, which I am going to have a huge issue with.. yup, another fact about Linda.. NO to taking down anything white in this type of consistency! I don't know if I will be able to taste this one! Crazy right?  But I'm totally serious.. that's not happening. 

We are 3 weeks in. I can not believe that 3 more weeks and these two courses will be done and we will move on.  I don't want it to end! We will be learning so much that retaining and understanding is becoming critical. We do so many things in one day, that our notebook ( that I am dreading creating) is going to be the key to remembering!

I am off to watch the Magic play the Heat. Go Miami!! Whooo Hooo!! Oh and yes, Go Magic!  Impossible to choose. Miami was my home town and Orlando is my families home town... May the best team win ;)

Good night! Until tomorrow....