Just finished watching Party Planner With David Tutera on cable. Discovery Travel & Living, Ch 16. A great epi!
This week's party was to celebrate a couple's friend who just launched a new design of a hot air balloon. It was of a country side cottage kind of a design. But that's besides the point.
Somehow the hosts wanted a French theme. Forgot why thou. So what David and his team came up with was smthg of an indoor bistro setting. They took some round tables, covered it with nice table cloths, hid the furniture somewhere else and voila, indoor bistro! It was really like a bistro, but inside. David somehow somewhere got hold of a lamp post circa the French era, and it just adds to the realism of the bistro. Details, details.
David even went to a restaurant to learn how to make croissants! It was hard work indeed. The dough, I learnt, had to be set for 24 hours! That's a LOT of time! The dough is pressed, laid out, the butter wrapped inside it, and then pressed and laid out again. When done, it's cut triangular, and stretched out. So it's like a long isosceles triangle. Then it's rolled into shape, starting from the base of the triange. Using a brush, it's then lightly smeared with beaten eggs. They're then put inside this oven with a controlled heat and humidity so that the yeast rises. THEN it's cooked, with another smear of eggs. Hard work eh? Besides croissants, there was cheese fondue, and being French, there was wine ofc. You can't seperate the French from wine, can you?
Nice show! Nice show! Like these kinda shows. And shows abt makeover, interior design and autos. :)
This week's party was to celebrate a couple's friend who just launched a new design of a hot air balloon. It was of a country side cottage kind of a design. But that's besides the point.
Somehow the hosts wanted a French theme. Forgot why thou. So what David and his team came up with was smthg of an indoor bistro setting. They took some round tables, covered it with nice table cloths, hid the furniture somewhere else and voila, indoor bistro! It was really like a bistro, but inside. David somehow somewhere got hold of a lamp post circa the French era, and it just adds to the realism of the bistro. Details, details.
David even went to a restaurant to learn how to make croissants! It was hard work indeed. The dough, I learnt, had to be set for 24 hours! That's a LOT of time! The dough is pressed, laid out, the butter wrapped inside it, and then pressed and laid out again. When done, it's cut triangular, and stretched out. So it's like a long isosceles triangle. Then it's rolled into shape, starting from the base of the triange. Using a brush, it's then lightly smeared with beaten eggs. They're then put inside this oven with a controlled heat and humidity so that the yeast rises. THEN it's cooked, with another smear of eggs. Hard work eh? Besides croissants, there was cheese fondue, and being French, there was wine ofc. You can't seperate the French from wine, can you?
Nice show! Nice show! Like these kinda shows. And shows abt makeover, interior design and autos. :)