Flavour of the Year: five desserts with a delicious, savoury twist
Flavour of the Year: five desserts with a delicious, savoury twist
By Emily Landau | April 4, 2013
By Emily Landau | 04/04/2013
Dessert has gone savoury with celery on ice cream, marrow in pudding and parsnips with pastry. Here, five salty-sweet ways to finish a meal.
201421 <strong>Buca’</strong>s Rob Gentile fills a candied eggplant shell with eggplant mousse, blood orange cells and dulce de leche. On top: spiced chocolate sauce. $12. <em>604 King St. W., 416-865-1600. </em> (Image: Liam Mogan) Eggplant Tart Eggplant Tart https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/flavour-of-the-year-2013-bitter-1-96x96.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/flavour-of-the-year-2013-bitter-1.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/flavour-of-the-year-2013-bitter-1.jpg 624 624 [] https://torontolife.com/food/toronto-savoury-desserts/slide/flavour-of-the-year-2013-bitter-1/ flavour-of-the-year-2013-bitter-1 0 0
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201420 <strong>Canoe’</strong>s deconstructed tart brings whipped parsnip pastry cream, caramelized pears, crispy fried parsnip peels for crunch and a drizzle of birch syrup. $12. <em>66 Wellington St. W., 416-364-0054. </em> (Image: Liam Mogan) Parsnip Pastry Parsnip Pastry https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/flavour-of-the-year-2013-bitter-2-96x96.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/flavour-of-the-year-2013-bitter-2.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/flavour-of-the-year-2013-bitter-2.jpg 624 624 [] https://torontolife.com/food/toronto-savoury-desserts/slide/flavour-of-the-year-2013-bitter-2/ flavour-of-the-year-2013-bitter-2 0 0
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201425 <strong>Farmhouse Tavern’</strong>s chèvre ice cream is topped with oddly delicious cubes of celery, yams, purple potatoes, parsnips and carrots, all candied in clove syrup. $6. <em>1627 Dupont St., 416-561-9114. </em> (Image: Liam Mogan) Candied Roots Candied Roots https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/flavour-of-the-year-2013-bitter-intro-96x96.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/flavour-of-the-year-2013-bitter-intro.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/flavour-of-the-year-2013-bitter-intro.jpg 656 656 [] https://torontolife.com/food/toronto-savoury-desserts/slide/flavour-of-the-year-2013-bitter-intro/ flavour-of-the-year-2013-bitter-intro 0 0
(Image: Liam Mogan)
201423 For the sticky toffee pudding at <strong>Skin and Bones,</strong> dense fig cake is ladled with salty, bone marrow–enriched caramel and finished with whipped cream. $7. <em>980 Queen St. E., 416-524-5209.</em> (Image: Liam Mogan) Marrow Pudding Marrow Pudding https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/flavour-of-the-year-2013-bitter-4-96x96.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/flavour-of-the-year-2013-bitter-4.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/flavour-of-the-year-2013-bitter-4.jpg 624 624 [] https://torontolife.com/food/toronto-savoury-desserts/slide/flavour-of-the-year-2013-bitter-4/ flavour-of-the-year-2013-bitter-4 0 0
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201422 <strong>Rose and Sons’</strong> bizarre combo of five-year-old cheddar, chili-zinged peanut butter and maple bacon on crostini balances sweet, salty, spicy, sharp, brittle, creamy, crunchy and crumbly. $8. <em>176 Dupont St., 647-748-3287. </em> (Image: Erin Leydon) Pb, Bacon and Cheese Pb, Bacon and Cheese https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/flavour-of-the-year-2013-bitter-5-96x96.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/flavour-of-the-year-2013-bitter-5.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/flavour-of-the-year-2013-bitter-5.jpg 624 624 [] https://torontolife.com/food/toronto-savoury-desserts/slide/flavour-of-the-year-2013-bitter-5/ flavour-of-the-year-2013-bitter-5 0 0
(Image: Erin Leydon)