A Refreshing, Summer Pairing
July 18, 2011
Like most people, I crave a sweet treat at the end of a meal. In the summer, when food is generally on the lighter side, I like something sweet but not TOO sweet.
After you‘ve eaten your grilled chicken breasts and pasta salad, try this pairing between Ghirardelli LUXE MILK™ Toffee and Round Hill Chardonnay.
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Chocolate Cinnamon Angel Food Cake
July 13, 2011
After dinner or in the evening of a hot day, you have that urge for something chocolate. But you just don't want something heavy.
How about a nice chocolatety angel food cake? Angel food is light and fluffy as well as having little fat and fewer calories than other desserts.
You could have a big piece and still have very little. Good chocolate flavor without filling you up. That makes it a perfect dessert for a summer night.
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Sweet Obsession Chocolate
July 11, 2011
"Simply the finest chocolates on earth!"
Whatever happened to truth in advertising?
I review a lot of chocolate, and I’d be the first to emphasize that anything I report is a matter of subjective opinion and personal preference. That is, what I write is MY personal preference. Just because I like it, doesn’t mean everyone will like it. We all get that.
This time, however, you can take my review as gospel truth and just trust me…. YOU WILL NOT like Sweet Obsession™ chocolate.
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Printing with Chocolate
July 8, 2011
Throw away those old ink cartridges. It's time to load your printer with chocolate. That would be neat wouldn't it? Load some rice paper, spray a message in dots of chocolate, and then eat your words.
That description may still depict a future scene. For now, there's a 3D chocolate printer that has just come out. It prints gobs of chocolate into shapes by adding layers of chocolate on top of previous layers of chocolate.
I saw a story a couple years ago about a 3D printer that printed parts in plastic to make the parts for a new, identical, 3D printer. It could make the parts to replicate itself. I thought that was really neat.
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Chocolate Pops
July 6, 2011
Summer is heating up so it's time for a chocolate recipe that can help cool you down.
In this recipe you're making a kind of smoothie and freezing it into a delicious chocolate popsicle. Keep them frozen until you need a nice, cool, chocolatey snack.
| Chocolate Pops • 1 8-ounce chocolate-flavored low-fat or non-fat yogurt • 1 very ripe banana • 3/4 cup club soda or 3/4 cup sparkling water Read more |
Edible Music: Chocolate Record
July 1, 2011
OK, this is interesting... Ben Milne, a baker from Fife, Scotland, has developed what is believed to be the first chocolate record that can actually be played on a record player. Wow!
The idea first came up when Ben was collaborating with his friends from the Edinburgh-based band "Found." He decided to try making their latest single, Anti-Climb Paint, out of chocolate.
At first he just poured some chocolate onto the single, peeled it off, and attempted to play the grooves left in the chocolate. But he soon realized that this actually recorded the reverse of the song.
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Chex and Chocolate Party Mix
June 29, 2011
With the 4th of July holiday weekend coming up, it's time for a good party recipe. Chex mixes are always good for munching. This version is sweetened and has chocolate chips added.
As far as I am concerned the coconut, peanuts, and raisins are all optional. The chocolate is required. Modify the recipe to fit your tastes.
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Chocolate Hazelnut Tea
June 27, 2011
The Stash Tea Company makes a trio of “dessert teas”; chocolate hazelnut, vanilla cream, and almond cream. These teas are made with decaffeinated black tea.
I drank my chocolate hazelnut tea one afternoon when I was “in the mood for something.” I didn’t actually know what I was in the mood for, but since I didn’t have my usual chocolate pick me up handy, I thought this tea might do the trick.
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1-Minute Chocolate Cake in a Mug
June 22, 2011
OK, I posted a bit of a tease on Monday with the Mug of Chocolate Cake article without actually including the recipe.
I won’t keep you in suspense any longer. Here is the recipe:
Mug of Chocolate Cake
June 20, 2011
A couple nights ago my teenage daughter had a craving for chocolate cake. Although this sounded good to me too, we had one big obstacle in our way--no working oven. Our oven called it quits one week earlier and we had not replaced it yet.
The next day, with chocolate cake still on my mind, I looked up dessert recipes for the crock pot, microwave, grill, Nesco Roaster, anything that did not require baking it in an oven. To my surprise, I found A LOT of recipes out there using alternate cooking devices.
Eventually, I found a recipe for a one-minute microwaveable chocolate cake in a mug.
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