Pecan Baklava, Sweet Potato Cream
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Laurence's dessert option is an ode to Southern pie culture filtered through baklava (the Greek-Turkish layered phyllo pastry traditionally built with honey and pistachios).
Laurence: "I'm doing a baklava, and that's going to come with a sweet potato, like, creme anglaise." He swaps in pecans (the dominant Southern nut) and finishes with a maple bourbon syrup. The baklava square is plated alongside a pool of sweet potato creme anglaise (a thin pourable custard).
Laurence: "We thought about kind of vessels for a Southern Greece."
Sherry's tableside: "This is a pecan baklava with a sweet potato creme anglaise."
{Michael}: "Lawrence's dessert, flavors are there. The idea is there - just a little execution."
{Tom}: "A layer of sweet potato in with the pecan would have been good."
Judges' table - {Tom}: "Baklava filo I thought was good, but it would be nice to have another piece of sweet potato in that mix because the foam didn't really eat sweet potato."
(Despite reservations on the dessert, the takeout pecan baklava order was singled out very positively by guest comment cards as 'the best carry-out I've had in a very long time.')
