Frédéric Cassel: Mont Blanc Jewel

Went to Ginza, walking the first 1 km, then jogging 3.6 km to the edge, with the rest walking. Actually, the first kilometer was closer to 7 km/h than the initial "running", which averaged about 6.8 km/m, but the 6 km of walking averaged 6 km/m.

Slowly expanding my running rather than adding much weekly distance, which is about 60 km/week. Don't have the budget for much run tomorrow and spent enough on cake today, so I'll probably take tomorrow off and uses a less direct route to Bigarreaux Thursday (assuming the rain doesn't discourage me).

Had expected to go to Dalloyau, but stopped in at Frédéric Cassel, and they had one of their autumn specials, Mont Blanc Jewel. Besides the obvious chestnut cream and the candied (so some degree) chestnut cream on top with a little whipped cream, there was relatively little whipped cream inside, which was instead red currant compote (I had guessed blue berries actually, though not a strong separate taste) on a little doom of (baked) meringue on top a tart base. It's a tart base, but warning: it's pasted down pretty firmly, so you aren't going to pick it up easily. This was great, a "harmony" of chestnut and currant, as they claim, which does not surprise me at 864 yen. Taking a picture at a park in the rain, so a little cramped. A better picture here.

Tried to make creme au beurre rose as one part of a cake (fancy cake number 4). Seems pretty easy, except still not that great at the Italian meringue. Got a lot of rose syrup now,, though and no other recipes. Need to get a macaron book.