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sunsenya · 5 years ago

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For the ask game again! 1,4,5,7,8,10,12! I love you hon and I want to know more about you! Hope you are having a good day and tsking care of yourself! 🌻😚

I DID NOT EXPECT THIS?? I feel so loved. And I can see the sunflowers. Thank you for the sunflowers, they make me blush. At the time of writing, I’m not having the greatest night but it too shall pass (or at least I hope it will).

1. Golden morning or peachy sunsets?

Peachy sunsets!! I am physically unable to wake at early hours, my body clock is ruined beyond the point of no return. As such, I rarely see the sun rise. Peachy sunsets, to me, is far more pleasurable to the eye because it’s no longer the bright, annoying, blob of yellow, my entire being avoids. It has more depth and it “provides much scope for the imagination” and I love it that way.

4. How long do you lay in bed before you finally get up?

Depends on my schedule for the day, but it is a daily necessity. On weekdays, I probably spend a hour in the morning scrolling through news and social media, or procrastinating a reading, if I haven’t decided to fuck it, (which has been my constant thus far). On weekends, I spend longer hours lying in bed, (2-3 hours tops) because anxious and sad thoughts consume my psyche and I can’t handle them so I just, stay there, in silence, until I become hungry enough to eat. It’s neither ideal nor positive but honest to god it’s how I feel.

5. Is there a food you've never had but always wanted to try?

Yes!! Flowers !! I’ve been meaning to try them, because they’re pretty and I only eat pretty things 🤣. Aside from that, I’d also love to try French (and Russian too, with reservations) delicacies!! I want to go around Paris for a day, buy from patisseries or boulangeries and try everything!! From eclairs to macarons to croquembouches to tarte tatin to madeleines--you get what I mean.

7. Do you listen to ASMR?

I do not. I don’t find them relaxing at all. ASMR, (depending on what is being used to create sounds) just seems so wasteful to me. Slime ASMR, destroying make-up ASMR, mukbang ASMR, I can’t with them all. Frankly, it sounds disgusting, and resources are being used to make videos or audio with no real purpose to them, and to add fuel to the fire, where does it all go once it has served its purpose? That’s my take on it anyway.

I do enjoy listening to sounds, don’t get me wrong, specifically nature sounds: water rushing, waves clashing, fire blazing, the wind blowing, I really find those enjoyable, these sounds brings me to wonderful places in the comfort of my bed.

8. Rain storms or a light drizzle?

Rain storms! Powerful, turbulent, spontaneous. Rain storms are fiery just as they are tranquil. And it always reflects my state of self.

10. Favorite color aesthetic

Primaries! The OG colors. Red, blue, and yellow in every shade and tint, from dark to pastel! They are very retro, very defined and charismatic, an automatic statement piece. Pops of color makes the world a more interesting place.

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jessicakehoe · 6 years ago

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Stylish Canadian weddings: Of course, food is the star at former Joe Beef chef’s wedding

Food is known for bringing people together and in this case, a pot-luck Thanksgiving was the meal that kickstarted the love story between Ashley Joseph and Ari Schor. “He brought cauliflower gratin and some old French wine and I was immediately smitten,” she says.

Ari was born in Buenos Aires, and moved to Winnipeg with his family at the age of 12. But it was a chef job at Joe Beef–one of Canada’s most famous restaurants–that brought him to Ashley’s home city of Montreal. Ashley, a freelance writer and editor, was immediately drawn to Ari and the two quickly bonded over their mutual love for amazing food and good conversation. When they began dating, they immediately noticed a deep shared connection, an inexplicable feeling that despite the newness of their relationship, they felt like they’d known each other all their lives. “It was beyond pure infatuation,” Ashley says. “Being with him felt like something eternal, as horribly cliché and nauseating as that sounds.”

A perfect lazy Sunday was the backdrop of Ari’s proposal. “He’d picked up all my favourite things–bagels, lox, pastries–and surprised me with champagne and caviar,” Ashley says, remembering how completely naive she’d been to his plans. She recounts that he waited until after they’d finished eating to pop the question. She’d been washing dishes in the sink still wearing her pyjamas, and their favourite radio program “Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me!” was drifting around the room. Approaching her from behind, Ari kissed her and she turned to find him holding an open jewellery box. “It was perfect,” she says.

Four years after their Thanksgiving meeting, Ashley and Ari got married at Entrepôts Dominion in Montreal’s Saint-Henri neighbourhood. They danced to “Long Time Running” by The Tragically Hip, traded a classic wedding cake for a gigantic croquembouche and both ugly-cried during their friend’s speeches. There was no cauliflower gratin this time, but Joe Beef catered the family-style meal with everything from onion soup grilled cheese, to a platter of sea urchins, to a foie gras parfait.

Flip through our gallery below to find out more about how the couple celebrated.

Photography by Matthew Perrin Photos

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Stylish Canadian Weddings: Ashley Joseph and Ari Schor

“The wedding dress was by Vancouver-based designer, Calla Blanche. It was the only wedding dress I had put on that I felt like myself in. I really wanted a gown that happened to be white, rather than a traditional wedding dress.”

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Stylish Canadian Weddings: Ashley Joseph and Ari Schor

“Jennifer Behr was kind enough to lend me a stunning hair piece for the day of, a crystal-encrusted comb, which I wore tucked behind my ear with a deep side part and mermaid-y waves.”

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Stylish Canadian Weddings: Ashley Joseph and Ari Schor

“I knew I wanted it to feel warm and cozy and romantic, and I wanted the room to be full of fall colours.”

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Stylish Canadian Weddings: Ashley Joseph and Ari Schor

“Our relationship is built on a deep sense of respect and admiration for one another. Challenging in ways that push each of us to do better and be better.”

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Stylish Canadian Weddings: Ashley Joseph and Ari Schor

“In his speech Ari talked about how everything he learned about having a loving relationship came from his parents—who are incredible people, and the most amazing couple—and how lucky he feels to have found in me all of those qualities. Pretty sure everyone was crying by that point.”

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Stylish Canadian Weddings: Ashley Joseph and Ari Schor

“Ari thought I was walking down the aisle to “A Case of You” by Joni Mitchell (my queen) but I told the band to switch it at the last second to Neil Young’s “Motion Pictures”, which was the song that was playing the first time Ari told me he loved me. He heard those first few chords and knew immediately and just completely broke down in tears.”

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Stylish Canadian Weddings: Ashley Joseph and Ari Schor

“The ketubah signing was really special, too. Done before the ceremony, it’s actually where you’re officially married. You really only need two witnesses according to Jewish law, but because we decided against having a bridal party, we wanted to use it as an opportunity to make our closest friends a part of it all. So we had ten witnesses instead: eight of my best girlfriends, and two of Ari’s oldest friends. It was really nice to be surrounded by all of them at that important moment.”

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Stylish Canadian Weddings: Ashley Joseph and Ari Schor

“I was the last of my parents’ kids to be married, and in Judaism that’s called a mezinke. The parents sit on chairs in the center of the dance floor wearing wreaths on their heads (Jews are weird, I know) and everyone dances around them and comes over to kiss them and wish them Mazel tov. That was really nice moment to experience.”

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Stylish Canadian Weddings: Ashley Joseph and Ari Schor

“I’m a person who needs solo time, and being with him felt like being alone but better. And he fascinates me. That’s what captivated me from our first date—the way his mind works, the ideas he has about the world, his ambitions, his principles—and still does today.”

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Stylish Canadian Weddings: Ashley Joseph and Ari Schor

“Our relationship is built on a deep sense of respect and admiration for one another. It’s challenging in ways that push each of us to do better and be better.”

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Stylish Canadian Weddings: Ashley Joseph and Ari Schor

“Planning the wedding was definitely more stressful than we thought. We also picked a venue where everything from forks to knives, tables, chairs, kitchen appliances and everything in between had to be brought in. The upside: we were able to choose every last detail. The downside: we had no choice but to choose every last detail.”

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Stylish Canadian Weddings: Ashley Joseph and Ari Schor

“The one comment we heard most after the wedding was about how awesome the food was. My friend’s fiancé, Mike, actually sent us a message the next morning thanking us for the best meal of his life.”

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Stylish Canadian Weddings: Ashley Joseph and Ari Schor

“We skipped the cake! We had a massive croquembouche instead. It was awesome.”

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Stylish Canadian Weddings: Ashley Joseph and Ari Schor

“Definitely the funniest moment was when Pablo took the mic to give his best man’s speech. He started by talking about Ari’s vast collection of cookbooks and said there’s one for everything you could possibly want to make, but there’s no cookbook that tells you how to roast a chef. And proceeded to (lovingly) make fun of all his quirks and isms.”

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Stylish Canadian Weddings: Ashley Joseph and Ari Schor

“Neither of us is into clubbing—our idea of a Saturday night out is a nice, long dinner with copious amounts of good wine (that may or may not end with closing the place and dancing on a chair or two). That was the vibe we were going for, so our DJ played really great dinner music for the greater part of the night, until the rest of our party guests arrived around 10, at which point he brought out the 90s hip hop.”

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lindyhunt · 6 years ago

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Stylish Canadian Weddings: Of course, food is the star at former Joe Beef chef’s wedding

Flip through our gallery below to find out more about how the couple celebrated.

Photography by Matthew Perrin Photos

1/15

Stylish Canadian Weddings: Ashley Joseph and Ari Schor

2/15

Stylish Canadian Weddings: Ashley Joseph and Ari Schor

“Jennifer Behr was kind enough to lend me a stunning hair piece for the day of, a crystal-encrusted comb, which I wore tucked behind my ear with a deep side part and mermaid-y waves.”

3/15

Stylish Canadian Weddings: Ashley Joseph and Ari Schor

“I knew I wanted it to feel warm and cozy and romantic, and I wanted the room to be full of fall colours.”

4/15

Stylish Canadian Weddings: Ashley Joseph and Ari Schor

“Our relationship is built on a deep sense of respect and admiration for one another. Challenging in ways that push each of us to do better and be better.”

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Stylish Canadian Weddings: Ashley Joseph and Ari Schor

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Stylish Canadian Weddings: Ashley Joseph and Ari Schor

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Stylish Canadian Weddings: Ashley Joseph and Ari Schor

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Stylish Canadian Weddings: Ashley Joseph and Ari Schor

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Stylish Canadian Weddings: Ashley Joseph and Ari Schor

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Stylish Canadian Weddings: Ashley Joseph and Ari Schor

“Our relationship is built on a deep sense of respect and admiration for one another. It’s challenging in ways that push each of us to do better and be better.”

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Stylish Canadian Weddings: Ashley Joseph and Ari Schor

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Stylish Canadian Weddings: Ashley Joseph and Ari Schor

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Stylish Canadian Weddings: Ashley Joseph and Ari Schor

“We skipped the cake! We had a massive croquembouche instead. It was awesome.”

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Stylish Canadian Weddings: Ashley Joseph and Ari Schor

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Stylish Canadian Weddings: Ashley Joseph and Ari Schor

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breadmaps · 8 years ago

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Pâte à choux

So many choux/shoe puns. So little time.

Choux (shoo)! A basic french pastry used for eclairs, cream puffs/profiteroles, certain donuts, and croquembouche, a hilarious french pastry tree that is…eaten? by? someone?

Choux means cabbage in French because of cream puffs are…round.

Moving on.

Choux uses a combo of eggs, water, butter, and flour (and sometimes some salt/sugar) to make a wet sticky dough that uses its own moisture to rise. As moisture in the dough becomes steam in the hot oven, the dough rises and air pockets are created within.

The interesting thing about choux is that you can adjust the water/butter/egg ratios to change the consistency of your finished product. If you want more of a sturdy choux to hold a heavy/moist filling, use more flour. If you want more of a crisp pastry, sub an egg white for one of the eggs.

Sounds sensible!

Attempt #1:

1) My Choux ingredients: King Arthur Flour Baking Companion (Recipe here)

6oz flour

1 stick butter

4 whole eggs

1 cup water

¼ tsp salt

2) My Pastry Cream/ Creme Patissiere ingredients: Basic recipe here

1 ½ cups whole milk

½ cup sugar

¼ cup flour

¼ teaspoon salt

4 large egg yolks

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

For my first attempt at choux, I chose to make a basic vanilla pastry cream and choux puffs. The cream was a basic custard recipe and came out nicely. I think if I were to make it again I would experiment with different flavors as I felt that the amount of vanilla extract tasted a bit artificial.

Still, it thickened nicely in the fridge and maintained a good creamy texture.

For the choux, I decided to use about 6 ounces of flour which was a bit more than the 1.25C called for. I was looking for a stiffer pastry that would hold up with the heavy weight of the pastry cream.

What a rebel I was. Yielding my flour bag with reckless abandon.

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I also wanted the puffs to be able to keep for a few days since we’re just two people and moist batters, while delicate and delicious, definitely yield a result that is more suited to quicker consumption. Otherwise, it will get sad and soggy and lose its crispiness overnight.

Ok. So more flour. Makes sense!

The choux came together really easily and took all 4 eggs well. Piping was sort of goofy because I still haven’t bought any legitimate piping bags and have been using gallon-sized Ziplocs.

Plus, the extra flour made the batter really thick and super sticky. So they were er…uniquely shaped on the tray. >_>

I cooked on 425 for 15 minutes, reduced to 375 for an additional 15 and then cooled in the oven with the door cracked. While cooling, I cut a small slit in each puff to let out some of the steam to keep the pastry nice and firm. It’s a good thing I did, too, because even after cooling I could feel the moisture in a couple of the puffs that I cut fully open.

Piping the custard proved difficult. “You should just buy a cheap pastry bag” I hear you saying wisely.

You’re right, I really should.

Particularly because, instead of just cutting the puffs open, I constructed a device using a metal oil pouring spout in the tip of my Ziploc bag through which I forced the creme pat into the puffs.

It was actually surprisingly successful until I realized that I had WAY more puff real estate than cream and I was only going to be able to fill about 5 of the cavernous puffs that I had created.

So I did what anyone would do: filled four, ate three in rapid succession and left everything on the counter to deal with later.

OK! Lessons Learned:

1) You really can mess around with the flour/butter/egg ratio to make a different consistency with seemingly solid results. This makes it a particularly forgiving creation.

2) You should let some of the steam out after they’re done baking. I was worried to do this at first because I thought they would somehow collapse like sad little dutch babies (a real food, I swear). But they didn’t and were likely all the better for it.

3) My puffs were fairly cavernous. In a good way! But that meant I needed more cream than anticipated. They were basically hollow little shells with about a golf ball size of space in the middle (give or take).

That’s part of the charm, though, since they are leavened by steam! Lots of room for filling!

4) Sugar. I think I would add some into the batter next time. For some reason, the recipe as-is reminded me keenly of the taste of second-day Bisquick pancakes. They may benefit from a little sugar to sweeten them up. Either that or using an icing of some sort on top.

5) Bonus tip: don’t eat so much custard. You will feel sick for hours.

What I will try next time:

1) Experimenting with different moisture to flour ratios. I’d like to try making a lighter, more delicate choux puff with a light filing. I’m interested to see how egg whites would affect the outcome, as well as using less flour and more water/butter. maybe even a 2:1 ratio. Dangerous.

2) Using an actual piping bag for uniform results. Alternatively, I think an ice cream scoop with a lever would be helpful in denser versions of the dough (like mine) to keep the finished product from looking like Peeps that are in the process of exploding.

3) Savory puffs. Yes. I’m not a huge sweets person but I will eat my weight in cheese/salt/pepper/olive oil/prosciutto. I think maybe a smaller puff for these to accommodate the sharper flavors. But how would I arrange the filling? Soft cheese with chives? ham? hmm.

4) Whipped cream filling rather than custard. I’ve never been particularly huge on custard filled choux. No idea why but I would always go for the cake donut rather than the Boston creme. I think I’m going to cut my current puffs open and fill them with some whipped cream so that they don’t er…go to waste.

Oooh! Maybe some fresh fruit in there too! Mango! Strawberries! Blueberries!

How healthy I am!

Onward!

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