Chocolate! Message Board

How can I not join this group???!!! mmmm, dark, smooth chocolate....mmmmm

Especially DARK..hopefully in a truffle!

*drools*

Seriously folks! Check out the Koo-Ki Sushi link above! Yum.

Whoa! Koo-Ki Sushi looks fabulous! Though at those prices, only for a very special treat.

Why aren't there any chocolate cookbooks on our "most commonly shared" list? Inquiring minds want to know!

I've been wondering too! I have a few by Marcel DeSaulniers. I figured we'd have the most delicious zeitgiest! I am working on adding our combined chocolate works to the profile, since the system can't sort by relevent.

*hides credit card to avoid Koo-Ki Sushi purchase*

I have plenty of dessert-oriented cookbooks, but none specifically devoted to chocolate. I guess I don't use it much because I hate my stove. LOL

Does anyone have a cookbook that uses chocolate in non-dessert recipes? I'm thinking of the fancy dinner in Chocolat or certain mole sauces... Mmmm!

Check the chocolate tagged books at the top! As for the stove--try making truffles here in the tropical weather! I had to prepare them inside the freezer with the door open-WITH the AC on HIGH! Best left to the 2 days in Feb when it's really cold and the AC on.

I googled "Chocolate Entrees" and found these
CD Kitchen

Thanks for inviting me! This is definitely the right group for me! I love chocolate. And living in Germany... I got plenty of great chocolate all around me. Belgian, Swiss - YUM!!! :)

I have to admit though that I don't really like chocolate in savoury dishes. For me it's got to be sweet all the way.

Oh, I've found a home! I don't have enough chocolate books! I do read www.davidlebovitz.com, though. Check out his blog. He's a dessert chef and he has a chocolate cookbook out. I don't have it, yet. But I love living vicariously through him and his expat life in Paris. Going to check out Koo-Ki Sushi now.

not sure I have any chocolate books - I'd rather eat it than read about it!
I do use dark chocolate in savoury dishes - one square into a hare sauce, for example, and something truly scrumptious is prawns and mango with a dribble of chilli-chocolate sauce.
One of our local chocolatiers sells bottles of chocolate vinegar - I use it sparingly on baked salmon or even fresh strawberries.

Oh My Ganache! What a good idea for a group. May I ask ... does anyone have a good recipe for blueberry truffles, by any chance? I have some dried blueberries in the cupboard; I was looking at them the other day and thinking ... well, the obvious ... 'I wonder if I could make truffles with these?'. Any ideas?

dried blueberries... I don't have a recipe but I would soak them in something alcoholic then use a standard truffle recipe and incorporate them.

I don't have any truffle recipes for blueberries, but I imagine that they'd be really yummy done in a white chocolate truffle. I'd soak them in a liquer then incorporate that into white chocolate for a thick ganache center Here's some links I found: Blueberry Truffle Recipe from Creative Chocolate, Not Recipes but descriptions of truffles, which could assist you

Last night I had an opera torte with pistachio butter creme and covered in chocolate. I am still flushed from the experience.

Do we have any good fiction books about chocolate?

Chocolat, by Joanne Harris, of course!

Thank you overthemoon and opinicus for the ideas! I did try soaking them in Godiva liqueur but found them too much like raisins for my taste, so I tossed the blueberries and had the liqueur over ice cream ... not bad.

re:chocolate fiction ... Like water for Chocolate comes to mind because of the title and a mole receipe in one of the chapters. Although the story itself is less about chocolate and more about the lives of sisters in a mexican home from the perspective of the kitchen, with that thread of mystical/spirituality that runs through a lot of South American fiction. Worth reading.

Another great use of dried fruits is to make a 'bark' with them. I make a lot of these at christmas with my leftover over dried fruit from my 12th night cakes/british christmas cake. White chocolate seems to be preferred with the kids.

Fiction tagged: Chocolate Fiction

Lilithcat & CreativityLives,

Thx for those--I have already explored them and loved them. You make me wistful to reread, which I have not done for a long time!

Please stop, Opinicus. I'm sure you mean well, but it's incredibly annoying to see "unread" messages on all my groups and find the same message from you on every one of them. Thanks.

My three biggest weaknesses are books, dark chocolate and coffee...so this group is perfect! Although I don't read books about chocolate, I really love to eat it :-) I have to share my favorite chocolate with you. They are called Endangered Species Chocolate and have their own website at www.chocolatebar.com I love their black panther extremely dark chocolate bars. They have them at the health food store down the street from me.

For anyone near Minneapolis, the Twin Cities Chocolate Extravaganza will be at International Market Square on Nov. 11 & 12. www.mspchocolateshow.com
Great Architecture and chocolate all in one place!

For New Yorkers, try:

http://chocolateshow.com/

Wow! No-one in this group has eaten chocolate since Oct 2006...?! ;)

No no...we've just been so busy eating the chocolate, that we've had no time to type about it. ;)

Who doesn't love chocolates?! I strongly recommend www.chocolatenation.com because they have the tastiest chocolate items on their menu.

Anyone for a chocolate Guernica?



Chocolatiers of the Basque confectioners association are taking advantage of Picasso's fondness with monochrome to create a life-size chocolate version of Picasso's Guernica, although the Guardian's image only shows the top left hand corner.

Pity the chap on the left is a nose-breather.