Wow what a dinner we had this evening. Bron out did herself. This morning we went to Costco with the aim of getting some King crab. During the Summer, Costco has a pavilion set up for seafood. It looks like in the Winter this is not the case. We ended up finding some Alaskan King crab in the frozen food section of Costco.
King crab at Costco (iPhone)
When I got to Bron’s place this afternoon she was in the midst of macaron manufacture.
Ready for the oven (iPhone)
These are a jaffa flavour.
Piping macarons (iPhone)
Macarons with orange chocolate ganache (iPhone)
There is also some cointreau in the ganache.
King crab waiting to be eaten (iPhone)
You can find the twitpic link at https://twitter.com/bron99/status/226597992789065728/photo/1
The aioli was amazing (iPhone)
It took a while but we finished four legs and two claws (iPhone)
For dessert Bron made a chocolate meringue layered with orange chocolate ganache topped with cream and raspberries.
Chocolate meringue with chocolate orange ganache topped with cream and raspberries (iPhone)
Chocolate meringue with chocolate orange ganache topped with cream and raspberries (iPhone)
Chocolate meringue with chocolate orange ganache topped with cream and raspberries (iPhone)
After dessert I was still feeling peckish so had the last of the salted caramel chocolate Bron had made plus a macaron.
Salted caramel chocolate and macaron (iPhone)
I now feel full and have strong garlic breath from the aioli.
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