Posts Tagged ‘Chocolate’
Dessert and myself go together like oil and water. I was raised by a mother who believed sugar to be the evil of all evils. We had sugar-free syrups and diet sodas and sugar-free candies and cereals. Nowadays, I have a low tolerance for super-rich desserts. One or two bites in, I’m dragging myself toward [...]
Chocolate mousse is a great dessert to end any heavy meal. It’s perfect for individual servings for small dinner parties. Also, this may be the perfect “pre-dessert” dessert to enjoy with your loved one this Valentine’s Day. It’s important to follow these directions carefully, especially in regards to separating the egg yolks from the egg [...]
An Article by Brittny Drye I have been coerced into trying something verydifferent this weekend — a beer popsicle. A friend of mine enthusiastically shot over an article to me yesterday, announcing the arrival of thehopsicle at a nearby bar here in New York. It’s a frozen can of beer, slashed in half with a wooden [...]
Photo Courtesy of ChocaBlog. Happy Hump Day! Today’s focus is on sinfully sweet chocolate and melting techniques. Chocolate is a fairly fragile substance and burns rather easily. So when it comes to those melty chocolate recipes you really don’t want to expose your delicious morsels to direct heat. There are a couple different methods that [...]
Happy Hump Day! Chocolate was first discovered in South America and has since become the food recognized to entice love and romance. The Mayan people called the succulent tidbits that came from their worshipped cacao tree the, “Food of the Gods.” Legend states that the great Mayan ruler Montezuma drank 50 goblets of chocolate to enhance [...]
