I have been trying to find a soup recipe that will work well in small coffee mugs to serve as a starter for an upcoming dinner party. If you have any recipes you think may work well please let me know!
I found ths recipe at http://www.thenibble.com/reviews/main/soup/cauliflower-soup-crouton-recipe.asp To make the cacao butter you heat butter with cacao nibs which are shelled, crushed, raw cacao beans. Cacao beans are the seeds used to make chocolate. In their raw state they are quite bitter but do have a hint of chocolate flavour.
The soup was made from minced shallots, cauliflower, white wine and chicken broth. After it has cooked, been pureed and strained you add some cream. It did froth well with the stick blender giving it a good "cappuccino" appearance but it had a very strong onion flavour and tasted more like an onion soup than a cauliflower soup. I may try it again with less shallots to see if that improves it. The soup is served topped with a drizzle of cacao butter and a paprika crouton. I didn't make the croutons as I was making some baguettes.
Rating 5 out of 10.
The baguette recipe was from the book,"French Women Don't Get Fat" and was very simple. Of course if you are going to make your own bread remember to allow plenty of time for the yeast to act. You really need to start a couple of hours before. The dough has to rise for an hour after kneading it and then again after forming it into the baguette shapes.
My oven didn't get quite hot enough but it didn't seem to matter and I was pretty pleased with the end result. There really is nothing quite like freshly baked bread! YUM!
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