chocolate overload

For a few years, we have received a monthly box from the Hotel Chocolat Tasting Club. They are beautiful chocolates - rich and intense, and so not to be scoffed in a sitting, but rather savoured over several days.

But somehow we fell out of the habit of eating them, and had two unopened boxes sitting under the coffee table. This weekend I changed the order to deliver one box every 12 weeks, and last night we decided to open a box.

We had one large and two small chocs each, and I couldn’t sleep for chocolate overload; this morning I feel as though I have a hangover, which is deeply unfair, as I have cut my alcohol intake by about 80% recently, and haven’t had a drink since (I think) Monday evening, when I had one glass of wine.

And so we will have to ration ourselves to one an evening, which is quite difficult - because although the after effects are severe, the *consumption* is very enjoyable.

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last night’s supper (16/6/7)

We started with tuna, quickly seared in a ribbed pan, accompanied by a broth with slivered ginger, sesame seeds, rice wine, shoyu, a dash of balsamic vinegar, and finely chopped coriander, and some rice. It was glorious.

And then. And then. Ohmigod. We had molten chocolate cakes, accompanied by raspberries and cream.

And then we had a lie down.

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chocolate asparagus

I really can’t think of anything else to say.

Link here.

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Triple Chocolate Espresso Bean Cookies

seen on 101cookbooks.com

makes my buzzy chocolate cake look quite tame …

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vodka chocolate chillis

I saw this on LJ, and thought of Sasha.

Make a slit in the side of the chilli and remove membrane and seeds. Then you marinate them in vodka for 12 hours+. Then you pipe a mixture of white chocolate, vodka and freshly ground black pepper into the cavities, chill, and finally dip in dark (60%+) chocolate.

The combination of chocolate, pepper, vodka and chilli works remarkably well, but its still difficult to eat more than one of them. The green chillis especially were scary and eating them brought tears to the eyes and profanities to the lips.

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yes, but is it *enough* ?

Browsing through some photographs today, I found this one - taken on 20 January this year. I uploaded it to my Flickr account, and captioned it thus:

bigger version here.

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