Chocolate pasta layered with a tasty custard, chocolate mousse, a thick chocolate sauce and maybe some raspberries. Topped with whipped cream, chocolate shavings and more raspberries. Yum.
Sounds good, but I think maybe some more "stuff" needs to be in there in the place of the meat and/or veggies. Maybe some sort of crumbled cookies or cake pieces, layered in a la trifle? And make the raspberries a raspberry sauce, and layer it in where you'd put the tomato sauce. But leave the whole raspberries on top for a garnish anyway. Yum!
mmmm. Yesssss. Ricotta or baker's cheese mixed with lemon juice, lemon zest and a bit of sugar, like one might find in a lemon cheesecake, perhaps, or inside of cheese puffs.
And if the chocolate lasagne noodles are too dense (I don't know, I haven't tried them), perhaps use commercially available wonton wrappers or phyllo dough instead? Which would require putting more chocolate back into the center of the lasagne again. I liked the idea of the chocolate mousse as one of the layering ingredients.
Eh, with the chocolate, I'd avoid using lemon. A touch of vanilla and spice (cinnamon, nutmeg, mace, cloves, ginger, cardamom) would do nicely.
Alternately, I could see, instead of doing raspberry stuff, making it a jaffa lasagna -- mixing some concentrated orange juice and orange zest into the cheese, and using an orange sauce. Orange and dark chocolate go very, very well together.
I actually like lemon and chocolate (have you had the Godiva chocolates filled with lemon creme?), but I agree that orange would be great too (or is that grate??). Especially the version with orange and dark chocolate. Yum! But I'm so partial to raspberries I'd probably be more inclined to do that, though.
Haven't had the Godiva thing you speak of, but I have had lemon with chocolate and wasn't overly impressed...
I also tend to like raspberry best... But I like something jaffa now and then. My default dessert crepe at Ti Couz is orange and dark chocolate.
Also, I left one item out of my list of spices above: Allspice. (Which is misleadingly named, considering that it is actually only one spice, not all of them.)
One other thought... If you want to be able to actually bake it, you might try using, for at least one layer, some kind of custard/mousse/souflee/meringue substance (i.e. something with egg). The idea being, the layer should poof up a bit. Meringue on top could potentially be really nice -- pretty and lightly browned. Vanilla or raspberry meringue by default, orange meringue if you were going with the jaffa idea...
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Date: 2004-04-19 10:01 pm (UTC)riffing on your ideas
Date: 2004-04-20 08:50 am (UTC)Re: riffing on your ideas
Date: 2004-04-20 11:16 am (UTC)The raspberry sauce substitution is an excellent idea.
Re: riffing on your ideas
Date: 2004-04-20 01:12 pm (UTC)And if the chocolate lasagne noodles are too dense (I don't know, I haven't tried them), perhaps use commercially available wonton wrappers or phyllo dough instead? Which would require putting more chocolate back into the center of the lasagne again. I liked the idea of the chocolate mousse as one of the layering ingredients.
Now I'm getting really hungry!
Re: riffing on your ideas
Date: 2004-04-20 01:21 pm (UTC)Alternately, I could see, instead of doing raspberry stuff, making it a jaffa lasagna -- mixing some concentrated orange juice and orange zest into the cheese, and using an orange sauce. Orange and dark chocolate go very, very well together.
Re: riffing on your ideas
Date: 2004-04-20 01:35 pm (UTC)Re: riffing on your ideas
Date: 2004-04-20 01:40 pm (UTC)I also tend to like raspberry best... But I like something jaffa now and then. My default dessert crepe at Ti Couz is orange and dark chocolate.
Also, I left one item out of my list of spices above: Allspice. (Which is misleadingly named, considering that it is actually only one spice, not all of them.)
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