Spring Has Sprung

"Local" is the new theme for my Spring Collection this year. Here's how local it gets. It didn't take a lot of searching to find just the right tangerines for my tangerine gel which is featured in the brand new Spring Collection. I just looked across the aisle at the College of San Mateo Farmers' Market on Wednesday morning. There I saw my fellow vendor at R. Schletewitz Family Farm, his stall loaded with crates of bright orange tangerines. I left the market with an entire crate. I spent an hour juicing the fresh fruit, tasting as I went. Then I made a reduction of the juice. This took 6 hours over very low heat. This was to concentrate the natural sugars to preserve the tangy fresh taste. The naturally thickened, concentrated juice was then filled into 55% dark chocolate shell molds, each holding about 10 grams of the precious gem-colored fruit gel. The experience of eating this pieces is surprising and almost alarming. If the snap of the chocolate opening and the appearance of the bright orange color don't startle you, the tangy, spring taste ending with a lively chocolate finish will. Go for the thrill and buy my 2009 Spring Collection