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Chocolate With Francois Peanut Caramel Tart

Cooking and baking with the French Pasty Chef Francois Payard can be quite a challenge. His recipes aren’t always for newbies. His recipes for chocolate are unmatched. They enter an entirely different league for using chocolate and producing decadent desserts, cookies, and sweets. This month a Peanut Caramel Tart that will knock your socks off. Although it looks lengthy and involved, it’s quite easy, given a couple of short cuts. The peanuts are combined with caramel to make a gooey, rich filling resting on chocolate whipped cream. Francois describes it as a “sophisticated candy bar". Makes 1 9” tart to [...]

By Joanne|2012-02-28T14:48:35-05:00February 28, 2012|Chocolate|1 Comment

Redefining Momentum and Cocoa Date Pie

During our 14 hour trip to South Carolina, I was able to read a few chapters of “The Mind-Body Method of Running by Feel” by Matt Fitzgerald. I found an interesting explanation of running momentum. Typically, we think of momentum as something that makes a body in motion harder to stop once it’s moving. In Fitzgerald’s book, momentum is described as occurring when there is a period of improvement in fitness that seems to have its own driving force. In a race, the circumstances are right and things are clicking. The runner feels assured that improvement will continue because “luck” [...]