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Chocolate with Francois: Chocolate Mousse

Exercise first thing: Wednesday I crashed. After running 14 miles, which I have done before, I completely crashed in the afternoon. First of all, I should have listened to my body in the morning when running was extremely more difficult, mentally and physically, than usual. I ignored all feelings of tiredness, lack of concentration, nausea, right up until 2:15 pm. At that point in the afternoon, I gave up and left work to go home. All I could think about was going to bed. From the moment I got home until 4:30 pm I slept. After waking up, it took [...]

By Joanne|2010-04-29T21:44:05-04:00April 30, 2010|Chocolate, Cycling, Exercises|25 Comments

CEimB: Chocolate Mousse

You won’t believe the silky, chocolaty taste of this mousse. It’s perfect. But the total surprise will be in the ingredients. This was a Valentine’s Day perfect pick by Laura of Edible Ventures. Visit Laura’s site to see the recipe, tips and tricks or go online here. The title is really Dark Chocolate Mousse and even though I used 3.1 oz of my best quality Valrhona bittersweet dark chocolate it looked like milk chocolate mousse. The color doesn’t matter because once this dessert touches your lips, your eyes will close, your lips will wrap around the spoon, and as [...]

By Joanne|2010-02-18T06:27:41-05:00February 18, 2010|Food|9 Comments

A Chocolate Dream Retirement Cake

Congratulations, Richard, on your retirement! We are celebrating Richard's retirement today with a family gathering at Hotel Utica and Apple Crumbles is bringing the cake. This cake consists of 4 layers. Two of traditional chocolate cake and two layers which are a crisp almond meringue. They sandwich a rich chocolate mousse. The topping is a smooth chocolate buttercream with Callebaut milk chocolate curls. On the center of the cake, I have put a "scroll" made of Callebaut white chocolate and corn syrup to form "chocolate plastic". The sides are frosted in a white buttercream and finished with an "Edible image" [...]

By Joanne|2009-06-06T12:33:27-04:00June 6, 2009|Baking, Food, Food thoughts, Life|10 Comments