Fake cheese ‘n’ pineapple: Today I decided to make fake cheese ‘n’ pineapple using coloured white chocolate filled with pineapple chocolate ganache. The idea being to fool people that its cheese, a-la heston B. It was a bit heath robinson, making it up as i went along, and without the proper tools/techniques. No tempering here, in fact the coloured white chocolate outer coating was decidedly buttery in texture.

Ingredience

I bar of green and blacks white chocolate.

a table spoon or so of double cream.

Some dried pineapple, some chopped very finely.

a knob of butter.

Yellow food colouring.

Cocktail sticks.

I heated the cream and added roughly twice as much chocolate, a knob of butter, finely chopped pineapple and some food colouring. mixing it together to make the ganache.

Then i melted some more chocolate with food colouring and lined a silicon ice tray with the putty like chocolate, and placed it in the freezer to set. Once solid i filled it with ganache then back in the freezer for a bit. Then topped off with more melted chocolate. Back to the freezer to set.

A little later I popped it out and chopped into ‘cubes’ putting each one on a cocktail stick with a bit of dried pineapple.

The effect worked surprisingly well. Not perfect but enough to fool anyone that didn’t pick one up. The taste was pretty good too, the ganache was more chocolately than pineapple tasting - but the dried pineapple made up for that - and prevented it being overpoweing.

If I had silicon cubes I would fill them with a dark chocolate more fruity ganache.

Still not a bad start at confectionary, I don’t think Paul A Young will loose any sleep though.

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The founder of Utilikilts and his partner were in london today as part of a whirlwind trip doing trade shows in scotland/dublin/london. They arranged for me to get into the trade only show and I got a sample Survival Kilt at a great price. They were friendly helpful and sized me correctly. Though i got a bit of a dissing for not wearing a UK on the day. Long live the Utilikilt.

The rising sun, smithfields.

very cultured

powerpoint on the mac is filled with cat torture clip art - who knew

i was in the city this morning - in need of a usb hdd. there was a branch of currys.digital - with little choice - i knew there was a pc world somewhere in the city.

so...
ipod touch
cloud wifi
google 'pc world london city'
click on the map.
click on directions
its only 1 minute away -awesome

and this is without GPS

gotta love agent provocateur window displays

chipolata skins stuffed with scrambled egg. expect to see these at a swanky party this xmas ! or not. kind ok like some sort of british meat based sushi rolls

oops there goes the neighbourhood