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Just have run into an English brand of chocolate called Green and Black's organic chocolate- FANTASTIC stuff- richer than anything I've tasted before! Well worth the price... It's organic, so look in health food stores & that ilk for it! Cat
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They grow the real stuff in Venezuela. Of course, it's organic. Not the sugary confection that's mass-marketed in Norteamérica. Select "English" from the home page.
In December I helped design a book _El Arte de Tomar el Chocolate_ by Carlos Duarte. It's about the fancy drinking cups made from coconuts and used by the colonial yuppies. Next, I wish he'd write one about nothing but el Chocolate.
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"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." Sir Issac Newton Posts: 3528 | From: Warner Robins, GA | Registered: Oct 2004
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Teresa, "think with *that thing*"? hehehe, two heads are better than one; isn't that what they always say?
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"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." Sir Issac Newton Posts: 3528 | From: Warner Robins, GA | Registered: Oct 2004
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Hang on there Sheila, I'm not even half way there yet!
I can tell you though... in my not-so-finer moments I tend to pound down a whole lotta chocolate. I mean, I read somewhere that the average american eats 3lbs of chocolate every year. Whatever! I ate 3lbs of it just during the week before last Valentine's Day! No Joke! I even made Chocolate Chimichangas a few nights that week - yeah, chocolate wrapped up in a flour tortilla, DEEP FRIED then dusted with powdered sugar. One night I even drizzled on some honey with fresh ground cinnamon - talk about overkill. muwahahahaahahhahaa!!
The sick part about that week is the fact I lost 3lbs after it was all said and done.
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One of the things that I am most anticipating about my Scotland trip is the chocolate. Oh, so rich and decadent. I have to laugh here. Today my little 19-yr-old co-worker had PMS. She is such a spunky little kid. Like me, she never has any pocket change and she was literally dying for chocolate. We have Easter candy all around us at the moment, which is torture. I dug around in my coat till I found a quarter. She bought a Herr's chocolate pretzel rod. Both salty AND chocolate...now that's just what the Dr. ordered! To me, chocolate can cure almost any problem, if only temporarily. I may try looking for this new brand when I'm out buying ear candles to pass out at the next meet! Love....jill
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My name is Teresa and I, too, am a chocoholic.
I've been eating chocolate since I was a child. One of my earliest photos shows me smeared in the stuff.
My all time favorite - Chocolate Mint anything. And where I am, it's Girl Scout Cookie time! I can only have three a day though.
No,wait that's three at a time.
Three times a day.
Obviously someone's been into my stash, because almost a whole box is gone in two days!
Story: One day after opening an Almond Joy, I ate one half and folded the wrapper back, laid it beside my mouse. Rich spotted it and said HEY! are you gonna eat that?! YES! I am, now put it back. He looked like a kid who walked out of the candy store empty handed. He kept check on it all day, asking repeatedly if I was really going to eat it. After a quick trip outside I walk back in and spot empty desk where my candy bar had been. Rich is leaned over some work at his desk, his back to me. I stuck out my lower jaw and and steeled my eyes - Did you eat my candy bar?! He turns around and has this rediculously bewildered look on his face and says What candy bar? Then I notice chocolate smeared all over the side of his mouth.
We both laughed our butts off. Last Friday made 5 years he's been gone. I still hear him laughing. Maybe he's the one getting into my Girl Scout cookies! Our best fights were always about food. The last two years of his life, he never bought a lunch - he mooched mine.
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Chocolate: it's not just for breakfast anymore. My wife made a "flourless cake" using Scharfenburger 62% cacao (they have it up to 99%!) cacao. OMG!!!! You simply can't eat but a sliver, maybe 1" on the rim side. I think of chocolate as being one of the four major food groups. Here is the recipe and the link to their website.
Position the oven rack in the center of the oven. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Butter a 9 by 2-inch round cake pan, and line the inside with a round of parchment paper.
Set a large bowl over a pan of simmering water to create a double boiler. Cut the butter and chocolate into small pieces and put them in the bowl to melt, whisking occasionally.
Whisk together the eggs and sugar in another bowl. Thoroughly whisk in the melted chocolate.
Pour the chocolate batter into the cake pan. Place it in a larger baking pan, and pour in warm water to reach halfway up the sides of the cake pan. Cover tightly with foil and bake for 1 hour and 15 minutes, until the cake appears to have set and when you touch the center, your finger comes away clean.
Remove the cake from the water bath and cool completely before serving, plain or with gently whipped cream. This cake can be refrigerated for several days.
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"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." Sir Issac Newton Posts: 3528 | From: Warner Robins, GA | Registered: Oct 2004
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Ricky that sounds luscious!!!!!! The thing is, I gained 8-10 pds. from quittitng smoking, then I began walking, & right now I am walking briskly 1 hour every morning with Lucy, then I count Weight Watcher points all day!!!!!
I have just lost 8 1/2 pds. in a week and a half this way, & I would LOOOOOOVE to have some chocolate!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Just gimme a good 'ol Hershey bar, & I would be happy! AAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrgghhhhhhhh!!!!!!
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OK Mike, Go for yer gun whenever yer ready pard. I wanna see you make the cake (it's reasonably easy) then eat half of it at one sitting. ...I'm sitting here trying to think up a good reward I can give you if you can accomplish this. I'll think of something.
Bobbie, Please do not use the word "chocolate" and any references to "weight loss" in the same paragraph; just don't do it sweetie.
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I had to price chocolate bars at work all day. I swear just smelling them (real strong when you open the shipping boxes) was enough to make me drool. PS I have a great EASY eggless chocolate cake recipe if anyone's interested. Love....Jill
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Bobbie, I slammed down a 1/2 lb Hershey bar last night (yeah, one sitting).. nyah nyah!! This thread made me do it!!
Buuuuut... yesterday was also a Cardio Endurance training day, which means two one-hour long sessions (one in the morning, one at night) where I hold my heart rate at 170-180bpm for the solid hour and burn (according to the machine) 1200 calories per hour. In other words, I couldn't be any more soaking wet if I had just showered in my clothes. So I can handle a li'l ol' half pounder without much consequence.
Ricky, I'll probably wait a little bit closer to Easter before I do the cake thing. I've already planned my next cheat and Easter candy was the target.
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