Pierre Hermé: Satine

Today, I had an errand and got cake. Actually, I would have gotten the cake anyway and I forgot to do the errand yesterday, when I was visited Isetan (but I didn't get cake, because canele counts as pastry, and actually, summer's not a great time for this, as it turns out). The cake was what I passed up recently: Satine, which apparently is French for "give a satinlike appearance". The cake is cheesecake, both baked, I think, and cheese mousse, flavored with both orange and passion fruit. I was searching for this online, and immediately found out that Pierre Hermé is selling a whole cookbook called Satine, with 50 recipes on this fruit theme, apparently. Well, it is good, excellent even, as fruity cheesecake goes, which is fine, though I'm more of a nut person, from chocolate to praliné. Also, of course, it is not cheap, at 864 yen. Next cake I have my eye on there is the mille feuille caramel.

In health news, a.k.a., not running, after bringing back my cake, I had to go to the library to renew my French lesson book (which I looked at once for about 5 minutes in the last two weeks), and snag my favorite cake book again, which they didn't let me renew last time. The rain had stopped (rainy season just started and is expected to last a month, someone told me today), so I dressed for working out and walked at an exercise pace (3 min fast, 3 min not that fast) for the first time for a long time for about 40 minutes total, with stops at the library, where I also did 6 flights of stairs, Tokyu Hands (4 flights) to get the points for my last purchase and visit the bookstore across the connector to remember which Patisserie book I was looking at previously (it was "Patisserie" by Melanie Dupuis and Anne Cazor, which the only Amazon review pans), then over to Lawson 100 for groceries and home. Everything (I mean, my body) seems surprisingly okay, even compared to how I was feeling earlier in the day, so I'm really getting excited about maybe running soon. At home, I checked out the next recipe in the book, and I need an emulsifier (乳化気泡剤). I'll have to ask around..