Yummy panettone dessert

I was looking through A Tribuna this evening and saw this vision of deliciousness in the Pão de Açúcar advertisement (local grocery chain). They take out the inside of the panettonne and layer in a creamy custard, put the top back on, and cover with ganache. Brilliant!!




Panettone is very popular here for the Christmas season, which is in full swing here as everywhere in North America. I've seen Panettone sold in Canada and the U.S. around the holidays, maybe on an endcap. But there is a LARGE presence of Panetonne in the stores here, due to the big Italian influence in this part of Brazil, I suspect.

If you want to see the very nice lady Brazilian chef demonstrate for you, here's the play by play of how to make it from YouTube.






And here's a link to the recipe in Portuguese. Below is the traslation from Google, with a few modifications, as it didn't quite make sense. The leaves of gelatin are a new to me, I'll have to look for those. If you're in The States or Canada, maybe use one envelope of plain gelatin??

Between watching the video and having the recipe below, it should come out pretty close - I think I'll try to make it this weekend. :o) Hmmm, just remembered I don't have my mixer OR my kitchen scale. Well, I may try anyway.

Ingredients

Filling: White wine English cream
190 ml of white wine
200 g of sugar
7 egg yolks
juice of half a lime
425 g of heavy cream
4 leaves of gelatine


Preparation:

Boil in a saucepan half the amount of wine, lime juice and 100 g of sugar.
Meanwhile, in a mixer beat the egg yolks with remaining sugar until creamy.
Add the remaining wine and stir in cream.
Join this cream to first mixture over low heat and stir constantly. Allow to cool.
Add the 4 softened gelatine leaves in cream and heavy cream
lightly beaten. Mix together and chill a little.

Note: To soften the gelatin, it must be hydrated in cold water, then
sifted into another container and softened minutes before using the microwave
(20 seconds) or in a double boiler on low heat.
For filling, cut off about the top 1 inch of the cake, and remove the excess inside dough, leaving the sides approximately 3 cm thick. Add the cream, and add the part of the cake that you took out making to separate layers with the cream (watch the video!).

Coverage: dark chocolate ganache
150 g of cream
250 g dark chocolate
Melt chocolate in double boiler. In a saucepan, heat the cream until it is warm and stir in the melted chocolate. To decorate, spread the ganache around the cake.

Cruisin'

We're a one-car family now, and I have use of the car this week. Just drove the boys to their allergist appointment, then cruised around Santos for a bit before heading home.

This song was on the radio. Love this song.




I forgot how much I like to cruise around with good tunes playing.

Mostra Cultural 2011, Part 2

The 4 Ano performance revolved around the environment; conserve water, don't pollute the Earth (A Terra), and was somehow tied into the story of Noah's Ark. I didn't know what anyone said, but they all did a great job. Especially A Terra, she had a LOT to memorize.

And guess who played Noah - Andy!

Here was Noé standing next to A Terra.


Then he heard God's voice. He looked up to his left, listening intently.


Then he had to look to his right, quizzical look across his face, trying hard to understand what God was telling him. It was brilliant acting, in my humble opinion. :o)

He even had a line: Peguei uma gripe danana! Achoo! Achoo!.
Which according to Google Translate, means: I picked up a damn flu! Achoo! Achoo!
(Wow, really?! A DAMN flu? Okay. It was the only line in the play that garnered some chuckles. )

He said his line beautifully. And then led the animals onto the ark, two-by-two.

They closed with a catchy song. They put the lyrics up on a screen so I could sing along. Thank you!

Mostra Cultural 2011, Part 1

The boys had their Mostra Cultural, which translates to Cultural Show, at school this past weekend. Here, Sam and a few of his classmates patiently waited before their performance.


Andy with a couple buddies on the schoolyard.


One of the displays hanging outside of Sam's class's artwork.


A close-up of Sam's grasshopper.


The Primer Ano performance featured several songs about fruits and nature. The theme of the day was in fact Natureaza Mãe, Mother Nature.


The bee zooming around to the fruits, as they all sang a cute song where the refrain was, "Zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom." Heck, even I could sing along!!




A nice picture with Papi afterwards.


And a little reception with juice a a few snacks was held in one of the classrooms, displaying more pretty classwork.

Sam's teacher explaining to find the strawberry soap that he made to take home. At this point Andy was off with his class getting prepared for their performance.


Sam and his Tia Bea. Tia (pronounced CHEE-ya), means aunt in Portuguese, but this is what all the children call their teachers, too. It's very sweet.


More to come....