Chocolate: Who are You?

[daddy300]

Im on gym diet no junk! Although both Dark and Milk chocolate are equally pretty good.

my favorite:

 

[Dprelate]

So what is the psychological character depending on your chocolate preference ?

 

[GuyNwah]

So what is the psychological character depending on your chocolate preference ? />/>

Don't know about others. Here's mine:

 

[Glaroug.531]

I'd say this had white chocolate written all over it.

shaking with the temptation to say Augustus could have never eaten chocolate

 

[hamzanoor]

Milk Chocolate with raisins.

 

[joshko]

There really is nothing in the candy world like a bar of real(not the Hershey crap) dark chocolate. Fortunately my wife works for a high end, mom and pop shop type, chocolatier so she brings me home happiness in so many ways.

 

[Pandoricai]

Dark chocolate = satan's turd.

Milk/white (preferably a combo!) all the way

 

[obomski]

Dark chocolate and red wine. The bartender at the Santa Maria Inn turned me on to this combination some 20 years ago. You need good red wine to stand up to chocolate and good chocolate to make it worth your while. Add a fine cigar and you have pure manly perfection.

I absolutely second this! Just skip the cigar...I allways end up smoking them over my lungs and coughing like a sick horse. But the wine and the dark chocolate: yessss!

 

[GuyNwah]

Oh, I almost forgot... Costin, if you're reading the forums: Leysieffer's chocolate shop, downtown Osnabrück on the Krahnstraße.

 

[Aes Sídhe]

Well... they do say the way to a womans heart is through her ribcage stomach

 

[thelostdunmer.651]

Dark chocolate offers subtle and bitter taste that is awe-inspiring and kills sugar.

 

[Nex3t]

dark chocolate, i really enjoy take a bite of the bar while drinking a little hot coffe.
By the way, and related to this, i'm from a little town of the mexican coast, where some of my family cultivate this: My link, let me tell you, eat the chocolate freshly made it's... something, can't describe it.

 

[dragonbird]

Oh, I almost forgot... Costin, if you're reading the forums: Leysieffer's chocolate shop, downtown Osnabrück on the Krahnstraße.

You'd better email him to be sure - something this important shouldn't be missed. />/>

And the idea of growing your own chocolate.... mmmmm.... I wonder if we can grow it here? And if so, I wonder why we don't?

Incidentally, I had ribs with a chocolate mole sauce a couple of days ago. The ribs were the most disgusting I'd had for a long time, but the sauce was delicious. Luckily, it was served separately so I just dipped the fries in it.

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Edit. OK. I've just found cacao seedlings for sale in our local equivalent to eBay. About US 50 cents a plant. Gonna have to do some research here on how long they take to be harvestable. I would so love to grow my own chocolate.

Does it count as a fruit or vegetable in terms of daily balanced food consumption?

And edit again. Five to seven years to grow the tree before harvesting. Dammit - I don't think I'll be living in this house for that long.

 

[Nex3t]

takes like 5-7 years to the plant to have the fruits, once you have them processing it's, well, no that simple, but doable, once you have the seeds, only have to toast them (like coffe, by the way, my family also cultivates coffee, it's a good coffee), and grind them with sugar (optional) and cinnamon (also optional) that's the way chocolate its prepared here, the traditional way

 

[dragonbird]

The article I just read about growing cacao here said that one of the problems was that when you start to roast the beans, the smell's quite strong and every child in the district will decide to visit. Ha.

Anyway, definitely something to consider once I move to somewhere a little more permanent. In the meantime, I'm going to have to look for some "local" chocolate - it sounds pretty good, I think they use similar recipes to those your family make. Without the cinnamon though - it's so common that I tend to get a bored of everything being cinnamon flavoured.

 

[Aes Sídhe]

takes like 5-7 years to the plant to have the fruits, once you have them processing it's, well, no that simple, but doable, once you have the seeds, only have to toast them (like coffe, by the way, my family also cultivates coffee, it's a good coffee), and grind them with sugar (optional) and cinnamon (also optional) that's the way chocolate its prepared here, the traditional way

Excellent stuff, especially the cinnamon, I think cocoa sourced from South America (close enough!) is my favourite (although I thought there were difficulties - similar to coca - around altitude in their cultivation, I could be completely wrong here though, not remotely my area of expertise. You have my sympathies concerning coffee - if I'm correct about this - it's one of the few crops whose price is entirely subject to the stock market, with no relevance to the cost & effort of production.

Anybody game for this?

 

[GuyNwah]

Anybody game for this?

I've had some powerful chili-spiked chocolate, but never anything quite like that.

Also surprising, but not quite so challenging, chocolate-covered bacon from old-time candy maker Marini's, of Santa Cruz, California.

 

[username_3266374]

I've had some powerful chili-spiked chocolate, but never anything quite like that.

Also surprising, but not quite so challenging, chocolate-covered bacon from old-time candy maker Marini's, of Santa Cruz, California.

Don't forget the salt water taffy there, the stuff is Amazing!

 

[obomski]

Chili spiked chocolate...I allways spike my Chili con Carne with some reaaaaaaalllly dark and bitter Venezoalan chocolate. Does wonders for the 'darknes' and warmth of your Chili, gives it a much deeper flavour. Chocolate and peppers go wonderfuly well together. Come to think of it: ever tryed strawberries with some pepper!? Really good, I can tell you.

 

[gregski]