The month of October is synonymous with over-indulgence, being the good food month. This year it is all the more special as we have been invited to partake in the smooth FM's Festival of Chocolate!!!
It started with the hamper to prepare ourselves with the upcoming chocolate attack. And as we were invited to the event, we felt obliged to make a thorough report ... and for the first time we started tweeting and instagram'ing and posting in real time - so start following us NOW!!
Like a kid in a candy store ... well we're kids at a chocolate festival! So much to choose from, but we only have a stomach each! [KT: but a bottomless one at that!] So we went for the more unusual looking dish - what is a Knafeh? Let's try it for breakfast. The shop was housed in a container adorned with street art, it is a commercial mobile kitchen that prepares one thing only - a lovely pudding of semolina, cheese, pistachio and rosewater syrup. Simple but tasty street food from Jerusalem - LOVE! [KT: and they won Best of the Fest! We knew it was going to happen ;)]
The Test Kitchen was a series of cooking demonstrations hosted by the charismatic Cameron Daddo. We started with MakMak and the "5 textured chocolate macaron". We followed this with the demonstration by the head chef of our favourite French patisserie - Jean Michel Raynaud of Baroque, presenting a sophisticated chocolate mousse dessert "Sputnik" (??!!). It was decadent, delicious, delicate and of course, divine! He also demonstrated a chocolate and mandarin ganache, which was splendid and changed my mind about using mandarin, which is more subtle for a citrus, as a dessert flavour.
The other demonstrations we attended were by Food to Nourish, with a smooth and intensely flavoured 'raw' chocolate and orange tart. Then a popular chocolate peanut butter slice by Tamas Pamer of InterContinental, and finished with a venison burger with chocolate aioli created by Bar100's head chef. And .... it was getting so hot with the afternoon sun, the energy level was nowhere near that of Saturday. Hats off to the presenters, our lovely host, and the audiences who stuck till the end!!
When we wanted/needed a break from the hustle and bustle of the festival, it was the VIP Lounge at Bar100 that provided our chocolate cocktail or chilli chocolate martini, chocolate canapes and selection of gourmet lunch. It was particularly appreciated because of the 34 degree heat on the next day!
So we spent our Labour day long weekend getting fat. It was so much fun, and still flabbergasted that despite doing eating and blogging our sweet experiences only because we love it, someone thought what we were doing was special enough to deserve an invitation to the event as VIPs. We will certainly keep it up and share the love wherever we go!!!
Hsinner and Cinned xxx
[KT: DDT continues this month each Thursday at a sugar hit, RSVP to the one you'd like to attend here. Note Ananas on 9 October is full.]
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