{"id":1840,"date":"2004-08-09T01:11:00","date_gmt":"2004-08-09T01:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elitemporaryblog.wordpress.com\/2004\/08\/09\/and-then-the-cake-came-forth"},"modified":"2015-12-31T19:04:08","modified_gmt":"2016-01-01T00:04:08","slug":"and-then-the-cake-came-forth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangette.net\/2004\/08\/and-then-the-cake-came-forth\/","title":{"rendered":"And then the cake came forth"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sundays are nice. My New York Times<\/a><\/em> and I are very cozy on the couch.<\/p>\n

Last night Kate and I made dinner and watched the boats sail in and out of Elliott Bay from her 18th-floor downtown apartment. It was an excellent reason to eat lots of bittersweet chocolate and Plugra<\/strong>, but you can rest assured that we ate our vegetables first.<\/p>\n

We traipsed down to Pike Place Market just before closing and snatched up a bell pepper, red and gold tomatoes, a cucumber, two yams, and three sausages from Uli\u2019s: spinach bratwurst, hot Italian, and lamb. Back home, we opened a bottle of white that happened to be lurking in the fridge, and, glasses in hand, put our bare feet up on the railing of her balcony to catch up for a while. There was much girly locker-room talk, and a pearl earring was nearly lost but wasn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

Then dinner threw itself together gracefully. The yams were sliced into long, flat fingers and roasted with olive oil, salt and pepper. The pepper and tomatoes were likewise dressed, then tossed onto the grill with the sausages, which sputtered at the heat and quickly began to glisten. The cucumber was sliced into rounds, tossed with vinaigrette and torn basil leaves from Kate\u2019s thriving balcony garden. Meanwhile, the boats sailed on, and soon the cake came forth, trailing in its wake a bowlful of loosely whipped cream. We had two servings each, and poor Kate had to lie on the floor afterwards. It was really something.<\/p>\n

And so, with no further ado, the recipe.<\/p>\n\n

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Recipe<\/div>\n

G\u00e2teau au chocolat fondant de Nathalie, or Kate's Winning-Hearts-and-Minds Cake<\/h2>\n

Adapted from Je veux du chocolat!,<\/a><\/em> by Trish Deseine<\/h3> \n \n <\/header>\n\n
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