by Brian | Mar 10, 2018 | Dessert Digest, Recipes
This recipe comes from the British West Country. Far from London and from Paris, this dish is a surprise, a kind of tart tatin in roulade shape. Very inviting to the eye and totally delicious from the first bite on. Feel free to adorn those apples with some spice, if...
by Brian | Mar 29, 2017 | Dessert Digest, Recipes, Uncategorized
Often we have roulades during the holidays: a chocolate sponge cake filled with whipped cream, perhaps surrounded with a chocolate glaze. Roulades are far more than holiday food and can be enjoyed year-round in great variety. The cake can be vanilla, as it is here, or...
by Brian | May 22, 2015 | Dessert Digest, Recipes, Uncategorized
Last week I wrote a TBT cookbook review for Around the Southern Table by Sarah Belk. It’s a tour de force of historic Southern dishes with loving emphasis on those ingredients we now call “local and fresh.” In a Southern spring, blackberries abound....
by Brian | May 9, 2015 | Recipes
When I hear the word “roulade” my image is of chocolate sponge cake, covered in whipped cream, and wrapped into a roll for Christmas Dinner. This roulade is not a dessert. This is an appetizer idea, a template really, for an endless array of wonderful hors...
by Brian | Dec 12, 2014 | Holidays, Recipes
My Christmas memories center around two things: the Christmas tree and the Christmas Yule Log. That chocolate sponge cake filled with whipped cream and draped in frosting was the signature point of the Christmas table. By unwritten rule, this dessert would only appear...
