Ask my 6-year old son, “What do you think your mother wants for her birthday?” and I’ll bet he’ll answer, “Brownies”.
That is how much I love those little dark chewy chocolate squares and the people who really love me make a point to remember this important fact.
Knowing this you shouldn’t be surprised to learn that I make brownies often.
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It’s easy to find good drinking chocolate in Mexico, but a lot harder to find Mexican made fine tasting chocolate, you know the kind you melt on your tongue as you concentrate on the subtle flavor notes – the only kind that satisfies us chocophiles. Swiss made Lindt chocolate is available in the finer grocery stores here and friends traveling abroad are kind enough to bring me back boxes of... Read More...
Imagine drifting off to a blissful paradise as your aching muscles are massaged with a cool, thick and refreshing chocolate mixture and then being wrapped in a thermal blanket and left to relax as you inhale the intoxicating scent of heavenly chocolate. A few gourmet truffles melt in your mouth as you depart with luminous and chocolate-scented skin.
Chocolate has many positive health benefits, both when it... Read More...
The research recommends sticking with dark chocolate. Chocolate is considered dark chocolate when it has 65 percent or higher cacoa content. Dark chocolate is better for us, because it contains less sugar, than semi-sweet or milk chocolate. It is also healthier, because dark chocolate contains more cacoa. This means it has more antioxidants. Did you know it is also abundant in iron? Yes, it is. Chocolate... Read More...
Make Valentine’s Day fun for the both of you. My simple, yet very romantic and playful idea, is to make my easy chocolate fondue recipe, adapted from Tyler Florence chocolate fondue recipe, and serve it with a cold sparkling wine or champagne. You will have so much fun feeding each other marshmallows, banana slices, almond biscotti, angel food cake, pear slices, and cherries all dipped in chocolate. So... Read More...
Welcome to Chocolate Central. Chocolate is one of life’s great pleasures and like any subject, the more you know about it, the deeper and richer is your experience of it. As an adventure-seeker at heart and former educator and film producer, I’m exploring the exotic world of chocolate in search of fabulous chocolate experiences and I’m sharing Read More
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