Fleur De Sel Caramel Brittle, originally uploaded by exoskeletoncabaret.
The art opening is over and the gig was quite a success. Everyone who came to Seattle to assist or gawk has vacated, and I fend off the inevitable post-art show depression with another happy accident brought to you by my tiny kitchen and a tub of $13 salt.
I decided to create fleur de sel caramels this evening as an alternative to cooking healthy dinner foods. I followed this recipe pretty exactly until the crucial moments in which I should have been watching my temperature, and instead elected to answer three text messages. Oh, and not owning a candy thermometer was an integral part of it all, too. 
So, instead of gooey, greasy, salted, addictive caramels…I ended up with fleur de sel brittle. It’s slightly more portable and definitely less likely to coerce me into eating half the batch in a single sitting. Some supposed kitchen failures are indeed mad science. Mad tasty science.
And…thanks to everyone who made it to the gallery opening Friday evening. <3
