Flavour combination #1 – Strawberries and coriander
A story about la pâtisserie, flavour combinations, ideas, iphone, the garden. Written on le Thursday 28 June 2012.
This morning, I went around the garden. And ate a strawberry. Then I saw the coriander in full bloom and had a leaf. And bang!
Strawberries and coriander is such a darling flavour combination. And the beginning of a new series on comme un lait fraise where it’s all going to be about the flavour combos that feel like fireworks to me; not unlike notes to myself. Reminders of some sorts. And hopefully, you’ll mettre votre grain de sel [add your two cents] too.
strawberry soup, isomalt tube, coriander foam
coriander shortbread, white chocolate crémeux, macerated wild strawberries, coriander blossom ice-cream
strawberry and coriander tropézienne: brioche, strawberry jam, coriander crème mousseline, fresh strawberries
Bogdan
Jun 28, 2012
Replace coriander with basil and you won me over :)
By the way, what do you use for the related posts? It looks awesome!
fanny
Jun 28, 2012
Hi Bogdan, I’m with you on the basil/strawberry combo. Pretty amazing and pretty overdone too. I’m trying to find some unexpected flavour pairings here, just like I did when I unknowingly ate a leaf of coriander after a strawberry. Bliss.
As for the related post thingy, I use a plugin called related posts thumbnails. Glad you like it ;) x
Callie Grayson
Jun 28, 2012
Love the new series, can’t wait to see what other amazingly tasty combinations you come up with
Xx
Callie
b.wak
Jun 28, 2012
oh oh oh, fraise coriandre, j’avoue que ce n’était pas gagné!! je tenterais bien le pré dessert pour faire connaissance…
trop hâte d’en voir plus! (j’aime bien les trucs un peu louches…)
argone
Jun 29, 2012
Dommage je n’aime vraiment pas la coriandre, j’ai essayé, mais cette odeur de punaise écrasée j’ai horreur ! j’associe souvent la fraise au poivre, au basilic, ou à la menthe …
thelittleloaf
Jun 29, 2012
I would never have thought to combine strawberry and coriander but it sounds wonderful, especially the second option with shortbread, white chocolate and wild strawberries, which always remind me of my first ever trip to a farm in France :-)
Meki
Jun 29, 2012
I have to dry this!