Visiting chef from Italy

Master Chef Gianluca Pardini, from Italy, came to the work with the students at College of DuPage for a week.

My class worked with him on a dinner for 100 people. I worked with Chef Pardini on the dessert below. It is a wheat crepe filled with sweetened ricotta cheese topped an orange caramel sauce and garnished with candied julienne orange peel, rosemary, and roasted pine nuts.

Everything was made from scratch. It was delicious!

My plated dessert for the night

 

Chef Pardini and Me