The Chocolate Thread

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“That's my contribution to the Easter meal, carrot cake (The Palmer House's recipe), and of course deviled eggs.”

“Looking at some of the other threads today, I think someone has been smoking the Easter Basket Grass again ----”

“Hersheys With Almonds on the outside of your pack all day in freezing cold weather. You are in camp, got a fire going, been fed and just kicking back...it tastes so good.”

“Yep, gonna make a chocolate cake tonight. Couldn't stand it any longer.”

“I am not sposed to eet choklit but I do sneek some some times. It gets me goood belly mussels and stinky poots! BOL!”

“One chocolate cake with an almond butter sugar glaze, applied hot so it seeped in. I did that because I forgot to add almond extract to the batter. :( The batter almost didn't get baked, it was so good raw. I'm kind of buzzing from all of the chocolate I've had tonight though. 86% cacao Ghirardeli. Woo Hoo!”

“I'll say it again....   Vanilla is Evil!


Yeast bred to bear artificial vanilla

Researchers have co-opted fungi to produce the flavor more efficiently

By Rachel Ehrenberg
Web edition : Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

A jug of wine, a loaf of bread and now, vanilla.

Yeast has long been pressed into service for making food and drink, and now scientists have recruited the fungus for a loftier flavor: vanillin, vanilla’s dominant compound. Scientists report in an upcoming Applied and Environmental Microbiology that they have engineered strains of beer and baker’s yeast to produce vanillin from glucose, a greener and cheaper route than previous methods.

“This is absolutely beautiful work,” says John Rosazza, a medicinal and natural products chemist at the University of Iowa in Iowa City. There is a huge market for vanillin, Rosazza says.

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“The vanilla grown on Madagascar may all be gone within a few years, thanks to a lovely new fungus.

Good vanilla is pure heaven. :P”

“It's the very devil.

Perhaps it should have it's own thread, like "Married People Who Think They Are Dating,"   LOL

But isn't it odd that one fungus can produce vanillin while another wipes it out? There's a peculiar symmetry there....

"The Fungus giveth and the Fungus taketh away."”

“All of the world runs on bacteria and fungus. The vast majority of its occupants just don't understand that. Many never will.”

“The world runs on fungus.

Most athletes know this from childhood.”

“I went to World Market last week...and bought some Chipotle Chili Dark Chocolate....

...anyone ever had it???”

“I tried that Lindt Chili further back in this thread (perty damn deadly).

I got a Scharffen Berger Semisweet bar with the Nibs in it the other day....   MAN, they need to bust that stuff up in some Haagen Dazs vanilla.   I think I'll get some and do it m'self.

The Nibs are the 'meat' from inside the cacao beans, after they've been roasted, cracked and de-shelled.   Think of them as 'the chocolate chips from hell'   LOL   They have a texture something like chopped nuts but the flavor is All Cocoa.”

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This makes the BEST chocolate cake EVUH!!!

(and I bought it at wally world too)”

“Chili chocolate is the bomb.

I got some Mayan Yogi tea the other day. Among other things it has some cacao in it.

Really good stuff, the chocolate doesn't overpower the tea, you just get a hint of it.”

“Those crazy Mayans put cacao in everything ----”

“"Dutched" ??

Does that hurt?”

“Only if you're forced to watch "Death Valley Days".”

“Was that Rory Calhoun?

Twenty Mules could be a real bore and might get the ax.”

“Alright, that was my mistake!   LOL

Back to chocolate!”

“Nice. Although I don't hardly count milk chocolate as "real" chocolate anymore.”

“The local grocery started carrying a new line of gelatos, two of the flavors are mine mine mine! The first is their pistachio, which is totally addictive. The second is their dark chocolate-jalapeno, which is sublime. I want more!”

“Will it ever end?”

“No, thank God.”

“http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=news/local&id=6904641&rss=rss-wpvi-article-6904641

A) what a way to go.

B) you never, EVER boil chocolate!”

“Life imitating art???

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094907/

Things begin to really go awry after a worker falls into a vat of chocolate ----”

“My wife received 2nd degree burns on a hand and arm when a rum caramel hose burst at work a few years ago. The company nurse gave her cocoa butter to put on the burns. Guess it seems kinda funny now. More so than this fellow's folks feel.”

“I agree with Tree, never boil the chocolate. But put it in a double boiler and warm it to liquid state...LOTS of Fun uses...(LOL)”

“I can just hear XL now...

honey, stay in that mood...just give me 20 minutes in the kitchen then come in and get naked on the counter...

....oh, and it will only burn for a little while”

“Poor uneducated Chili...explaines a hell of a lot from the past.”

“There was some humor injected in my post, XL, but I have to admit, I just sat up and I am all ears based on your last post.”

“As Chili applies the Double Standard.”

“What double standard would that be, #&%!$?”

“T*lty is having another meltdown.”

“Why my goodys do yall show them pikters?! Yall kno I am lergik to choklit!!!
(but I do get a sekert peese some times (o:3”

“Piece o' whu??

Did you screw the pooch?”

“mmmmm...i would love some really good chocolate tonight....”

“Hey Chili...will you go to a store and get something chocolate before you come home??”

“Too late. But I reckin I can go to Fred's aka the Coldwater Walmart and find something.”

“nm”

“I am grilling burgers, btw.”

““mmmmm...i would love some really good chocolate tonight....”
Nurse Goodbody
4:05:19 PM
“Hey Chili...will you go to a store and get something chocolate before you come home??”
Nurse Goodbody
4:49:18 PM


The direct approach is always better on us men, NG. We are kinda dense when it comes to hints.”

“ok”

“yeah I know Stovie...I am trying to be better about that...”