I like how it came out but it has the characteristic taste of pure unsweetened cocoa, so it's probably not for everybody.
Dalidra and I love pure chocolate and cocoa so I did it like that on purpose but you have to like cocoa to enjoy it.
Also, today I have managed to update my campaign journal after a few days. I've been into too many things and I had almost forgotten about it, but today I made a kinda big update.
I can do up to like a 85% pure anything past that and its just to much for me.
More or less like me. I have tried 99% pure chocolate and it's too much even for me.
But I know people who cannot stand anything above 50% or that just enjoy milk chocolate.
To me, real chocolate/cocoa has to be at least slightly sour.
Yeah I prefer the dark stuff. I don't eat much milk chocolate anymore.
Even as a kid I liked sour tastes, so I was never a fan of milk chocolate or white chocolate.
I just don't really like chocolate.
Of course I like chocolate milk and Ice cream and whatnot but as far as even the chocolate surrounding Reese's peanut butter cups, nope, not for me.
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I don't care for Hershey's chocolate. I can be kind of snobby about which kinds I'll eat.
I don't care much for white chocolate myself, except in macadamia nut cookies and with peanut butter on occasion. Dark chocolate is fine, Mexican chocolate in small doses, and the more bitter chocolate I associate with Europe as well. I prefer milk chocolate, but I admit I am American with only barely-refined tastes and a sweet tooth.
I don't believe Americans don't have a refined taste. You have a mix of many cultural heritages so you know how to appreciate foods from all over the world. I think that is a very good thing.
I like to cook exotic food but in general in Europe we are more attached to our traditional styles of cooking and have a harder time appreciating other styles of cooking.
Myself I don't favor traditional over multicultural but I sometimes tend to give a traditional or local touch to food as many of the ingredients I have are local.
Yesterday I used Cebreiro cheese for my gyros to get a similar effect to feta cheese, which I didn't have. A purist would have sued me but it worked so fine, as it's creamy and fresh. It melted with the hot meat and made a good substitute for both feta cheese and yogurt sauce.
I really love practising «fusion cooking» where I combine two different styles into a single recipe.
I consider myself an all around chocolate person as I will eat milk, white and dark (over 85% isn't really my thing though) chocolate with glee.
As for favorite chocolate brands, I've have to say Lindt and Milka, as my grandmother feed me the stuff tirelessly, when I was a child.
I usually found Milka to be very good, but it's getting worse and worse every time I have it and now I don't like it at all (at least in Spain, it might be better in other places). Lindt is awesome though. My favorite brand is Valor, which also produces the pure cocoa I use for cooking.
Lindt has one of the best mint chocolate ever.
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So going to my parents house in about 30min.
I'll probably be a bit silent here, until tomorrow, so see you until then gentle women and gentle men.
I won't speak for my fellow Americans, only myself. I prefer Lindts or Cadbury chocolate; I have a coworker who loves Cadbury and I buy her some for her birthday and Xmas every year.
So going to my parents house in about 30min.
I'll probably be a bit silent here, until tomorrow, so see you until then gentle women and gentle men.
Have a good time there!
I guess I'll be going to eat with Dal's parents tomorrow.
I never tried Cadbury chocolate.
Forget the chocolate, get one of the Bunnies.
My friend likes Cadbury Flake more than the bunnies strangely enough.
Cow Pies are where it's at.
Having heard all the horror stories about airlines, should I ever go to Paizocon in the future, I'm going by either bus or rail. Hmmm, maybe rail. Haven't been on a train since I was in Germany, in the late 1980's.
Rail isn't practical for a 2700 mile journey for a four-day event. It would take two days to get to Seattle by rail from where I live, plus a two hour drive to the nearest train station. (Same for coming back). Tickets are comprable in price to airfare.
Honestly, I fly a fair amount, and this was by far the worst travel bust for me in 25 years!
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Yeah poor Celestial Healer got off the plane and we had a game in literally less thanntwo hours. It went well though, we got to play in Shemeshka's (Todd Stewart) Maelstrom-oriented game, which was fun. I'm intrigued by his floating chaotic city of Galisemni. Hopefully he'll get a chance to expound on it further
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Good morning!
Bad news to hear that some people have so many trouble getting to the PaizoCon. I'm sorry for you.
Yeah I'm american and My tastes are quite refined!
Edit: (I felt guilty)
O..K... not really.
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I am not American and my tastes vary, depending on how hungry I am, from being a gourmet to swallow whatever I can find without almost tasting it. In the morning I'm often the latter.
Still morning here!
Today I'm going to eat with Dal's parents and we are ordering some pizza.
It's weird, you usually visit the parents to get some homemade stuff, but it's me who usually takes homemade bakery for them. They give me ingredients for my stuff, the eggs they get from Dal's grandma are the best!
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Yes. It was the keyboard. It wasn't intentional. For sure. I'm not lying. Nope.
They told me that I should open a bakery and that they would help me with it if someday I don't want to keep working on the hospital. They really believe in me.
I love my job and at this time I wouldn't like to do anything else, but knowing that I have options is good.
Curiously enough I have studied some nutrition on my own and I make a big effort on making everything I cook more healthy without taking the deliciousness out of it.
I.e. I mostly use brown sugar instead of white one. I never use margarine or trans fats. And I remove all the unnecesary fats replacing them for other techniques to make things creamy or moist. I am not afraid to use a good ammount of butter if I have to, of course. When it comes to bakery it has to be tasty first before being healthy! I am just again processed stuff that can be bad for health.
It's not. It's your subconscious xD
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Updated my Campaign Journal. I'm not posting as many updates as I used to.
And now going out for having lunch with Dal's parents.
It's Pizza Time!
It is important to snuke to the world.
Ahh back from my parents house, which was really nice nice visit, just me and my parents engaging in some god old hygge.
"Enjoying" a glass of Gin, while sweating profusely and wondering how the heck it got so hot in just 2-3 days...
Hows everyone doing?
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Fine! I'm going to bake some cookies as soon as I get back home (the dough is cooking on the fridge) and I loved the idea you mentioned of adding some cinnamon to the sugar coating so I am totally stealing it!
I am at Dal's parents home waiting for our pizzas to arrive.
The cinnamon is most typically used on Christmas cakes and cookies, up here, so I guess my mother was in a Christmas mood when she made the cookies.
She also had made some, with cane sugar and roasted almond flake topping.
I am mixing cane sugar and cinnamon as a topping, I'd like to use almonds too but I don't have them and until I get paid I'm using only what I have in my kitchen ;-D
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Oh and I forgot to mention yesterday, that we had a nice family barbecue.
It was really good, we had homemade "hot-wings" (actually a lot different chicken parts made as hot-wings).
We also had "home grown" goat on the barbeque, which was a bit weird, as I knew and had taken care of, that particular goat (Milly, I called her) we where having, last time I moved back home during a particularly hard depressive period.
Edit: My parents will actually not be having goats any more, after this summer, as they are too much work for just the two of them.
Since my brother moved out three years ago, they have been scaling back having so many animal, and have sold some of the farm-land off as the both of them don't have the health to keep farming.
It's kind of sad, but I understand it, and I'm proud that they both have been getting an education, and shifting their work from farming to a "city profession".
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We are trying to get my grandparents to sell their sheep. They have headbutted my grandma a few times and could have seriously harmed her.
They don't want to move to the city but we have adapted their home so it's easier for them to live there.
I don't particularly enjoy family barbecues because my family tends to burn the meat and it's barely edible so I end eating mostly salad. And aperitives.
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Sounds like it's up to someone *cough*you*cough to learn how to grill so as to retain the tasty juices found in many a meat!
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I don't like family barbecues, because half my family are a%~$!+*s. I generally don't stay long enough to eat the food.
Then you should show them how a good barbeque is done! :)
There is nothing worse then dried-out and burnt meat.
Uhh, don't want to think about, how we are going to break the news to my grandparents, that their house is becoming a bit too much for them to keep alone. Hopefully that still some years out in the future.
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I thought I hated meat until I learned how to cook it. I learned to do barbecues from people from Argentina so if I have learned something...
I don't like family barbecues, because half my family are a~!#$*@s. I generally don't stay long enough to eat the food.
You have my sympathies Cap.
My father's side of the family, was like that for most of my life. To keep it short, a combination of abuse, mistrust and inheritance disputes made that side a frecking big bag of dicks.
Luckily tension have lifted somewhat the last couple years, so we have begun seeing two, of my fathers three siblings, lately (although I was seeing my cousins before that, because well they are nice people).
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I have... every kind of people in my family.
Right now I am more attached to Dal's family than I am to mine. They are like second parents to me.
I met my father's family a few years ago and have a different view of the world than I have so I don't get well with them (I get well with my father, his wife and my brother though).
I was attached to my mom and my grandparents before they died but now I feel disconnected from my mother's family. I love most of my uncles and aunts (my grandparents had 10 sons and daughters) but we don't reunite as there are some... toxic elements that the others tend to avoid as I have started doing too.
I have... every kind of people in my family.
Right now I am more attached to Dal's family than I am to mine. They are like second parents to me.I met my father's family a few years ago and have a different view of the world than I have so I don't get well with them (I get well with my father, his wife and my brother though).
I was attached to my mom and my grandparents before they died but now I feel disconnected from my mother's family. I love most of my uncles and aunts (my grandparents had 10 sons and daughters) but we don't reunite as there are some... toxic elements that the others tend to avoid as I have started doing too.
*Huggels Kile*
*Huggels Kile*I have... every kind of people in my family.
Right now I am more attached to Dal's family than I am to mine. They are like second parents to me.I met my father's family a few years ago and have a different view of the world than I have so I don't get well with them (I get well with my father, his wife and my brother though).
I was attached to my mom and my grandparents before they died but now I feel disconnected from my mother's family. I love most of my uncles and aunts (my grandparents had 10 sons and daughters) but we don't reunite as there are some... toxic elements that the others tend to avoid as I have started doing too.
I need that huggel right now,dammit!
The cookies won the war. I surrender. There was something on the dough that made them unshapeable (is that actually a word?)
I tried to fix them but on a cookie dough induced enrage I just dumped everything!
I could just put the dough in the freezer or added more flour but I just dumped everything because I felt frustrated at them.
It was a cold rage. I just looked totally serious when throwing them at the garbage so Dalindra was like WTF?
You can make a recipe a hundred times that if it wants to go wrong it will go wrong.
*Feels summoned to the thread for unknown reasons*
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*Feels summoned to the thread for unknown reasons*
*Punches Cookie. Repeatedly*
Feeling better now.