I’ve been trying to get to the centre of things this week.  Now that I have had such a good time making molded chocolate hearts, I am itching to fill them with fantastic flavours.

Feeling very French, I launch myself into the Ecole Chocolate reading and technique for ganache.  I am delighted to find one explanation for the derivation of this word is, in slang French:  Idiot! This term was supposedly coined when a hapless kitchen apprentice dropped hot cream into a bowl of chocolate.  [Read more…]