The theme for todays dessert was apples and pears. This is what I came up with....I poached the pear in a boiling mixture of red wine, water, cinnamon sticks and nutmeg. Once it was tender, I cored it out and filled it with mascarpone cream and chopped up candied pistachios. It is sitting on an apple chip (dried apple slice).
The item in the center (Apple / Cranberry Charlotte) is a shell of bread slices filled with caramelized diced apples and marinated cranberries. The cranberries were rehydrated in boiling whiskey and simple syrup. The red sauce in the front of the plate is a reduction of the wine mixture that I used for the pear.
The cold item on the right is Pomme Sorbet. For the base of the sorbet, I used Lambic Pomme Beer (apple beer - aka hard cider). Lambic is a Belgium company. They make a mean hard cider and the sorbet came out great. It is very refreshing.
