Chocolate dipping
Dec. 23rd, 2002 09:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
magidI bought a 4.5-pound bar of dark chocolate at Trader Joe's last week. My plan was to make a lot of vegan truffles. Unfortunately, Paper and Provisions didn't have any marzipan. Next week, they said. In the meantime, I wanted to try out the chocolate. I'd read that someone had had a difficult time breaking the bar into usable pieces. Luckily, I didn't have that problem (though perhaps, "usable size" was different for me; I only had to fit the piece(s) into a bain-marie, not make shavings or anything). I put the bar hanging over the end of the table, and a few whacks of a hand made a break this way, then that. So, last night I was able to make as much chocolate-covered ginger as I had ginger (ie I should've stocked up with more), and a bunch of almond clusters as well. I'm thinking of making some (dairy) truffles next, perhaps using more of the egg nog I have hanging around. Not so sure about this, but worth the experiment, I think. And once I get some almond paste, another batch of vegan truffles as well. Perhaps I won't have tons of chcolate hanging around too long...
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Date: 2002-12-23 06:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-12-23 06:44 am (UTC)(a) you haven't had enough breakfast,
(b) it was already time for a snack,
(c) you think it possible for me to get through all this chocolate before I next see you,
(d) some combination of the above?
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Date: 2002-12-23 06:52 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-12-23 06:57 am (UTC)(f) you no longer like chocolate, which implies
(g) Bitty has been taken over by aliens or became a pod person, which is belied by
(h) her last post, which leaves us with
(i) confusion.
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Date: 2002-12-23 06:58 am (UTC)j) wanting to leave cusswords in your LJ
but that's unlikely
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Date: 2002-12-24 06:05 am (UTC)