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Chocolate for Chocolate Day
Otherwise celebrated as Valentine's Day!
Love Potion #9, by The Searchers
“No, I don’t think I will kiss you, although you need kissing, badly. That’s what’s wrong with you. You should be kissed and often, and by someone who knows how.” – Rhett Butler, Gone with the Wind.
“Don’t forget I’m just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her.” – Anna Scott, Notting Hill.
There are many great love story moments in movie history, and corny love lines in movies you watch when you are in high school and even in college. And then life settles in, and love becomes reality. Not quite the same as the movies.
Though movies are pretty romantically wonderful, nothing has ever compared to the love I felt when my daughter said, with her little hand in mine, “I love you Daddy." Or, seeing my father walk hand-in-hand with my 5-year-old son, oh so many years ago.
It explains a lot to me, why my Dad would give flowers to all the women in his life on Valentine's Day, not just to my Mom.
"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” — Lao Tzu.
And then there is the most important love there is...
"Your love is better than ice cream.” — Sarah McLachlan.
“The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends.” – Gwyneth Paltrow (I am pretty sure she meant chocolate and girlfriends).
"All you need is chocolate!” - misquoting the Beatles.
"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because the chocolate is finally better than your dreams.” — misquoting Dr Seuss.
"Life is the flower for which love is the chocolate." — misquoting Victor Hugo.
“Don’t forget I’m just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to share his chocolate.” — misquoting Julia Roberts as Anna Scott.
Valentine's Day is not necessarily a day belonging to Hallmark, you can make it true to the heart, and full of chocolate! Give, share or keep - chocolate is always love.
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Valentine's Day Chocolate
A Bar Collection
Hand-selected collection of five craft chocolate bars and chocolate confections perfect for the sweet chocolate-lover in your life on Valentine's Day.
White Label Chocolate Salted Brown Butter 58% Dark Milk Bar: The ultimate dark milk bar with brown butter and sea salt.
Karuna Chocolate Organic 70% Dark Chocolate with Raspberry Bar: A perfect balance between dark chocolate and freeze-dried raspberries.
Mission Chocolate Romeo & Juliet Cream Cheese White Chocolate Bar with Candied Guava Heart: Super creamy cream cheese white chocolate decorated with candied guava pieces, including a heart-shaped piece right in the middle. So romantic!
Wildwood Chocolate Berry Berry Dark Chocolate Bar: Blend of 70% dark chocolate covered with freeze-dried red berries, including raspberries and strawberries.
Chocolat Moderne THE LOVER Avant-Garde Bar: Perfect blend of white chocolate filled with Joan's signature passion fruit caramel sauce.
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Lemon Toffee with Milk Chocolate and Roasted Pistachio
from SOMA
This chocolate-forward Lemon Toffee with Pistachios looks good!
Break a little (and you can because the toffee is just right) and take your first bite. Lemon is the up-front flavor and it is quite a delicious sweet lemon and not a tart lemon juice bite.
The sugar sweetness you like in a toffee is there, yet it doesn't overwhelm your total bite. Instead it complements the chocolate.
The pistachios are the same. They add a richness, a hidden creaminess, to the overall crunch, a roundness as well, without over nutting the mouth.
If you love chocolate with your toffee this is a good one for you!
See the SOMA Lemon Toffee with Milk Chocolate and Roasted Pistachio!
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Grilled Pork Tenderloin with Chocolate Spice Rub
recipe
Grilled Pork Tenderloin with Chocolate Spice Rub Recipe, inspired by our mention in an issue of the Saveur 100. It is a nice twist to a more traditional pork tenderloin, and will produce beautiful results if you prepare and grill the loin properly.
You can adjust the size of the tenderloin, depending on how many you are serving. This recipe will easily work for smaller or larger tenderloins. Any unused rub can be stored in a container in the fridge for up to two weeks.
See the Grilled Pork Tenderloin with Chocolate Spice Rub Recipe Here!
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Licorice is the new drug of choice
More than a red vine
The first Lakrids by Johan Bülow shop opened in Svaneke, Denmark on 07.07.07. The idea was to cook the liquorice right in the shop, making sure that you could smell it within a radius of 100 meters. It worked. Everything was sold out within two hours. The last customer even bought the sample bowl on the counter.
It is our friend David – who over the years has introduced us to some of our all-time favorite foods, and whose personal enthusiasm for his “finds” is contagious - who introduced us to Lakrids Licorice.
On a recent trip to NYC, I visited with David, who continued to gush about Lakrids.
“I know you carry Lakrids, and that Eliza just ordered more, but you have to try these new flavors. I just visited the factory and met with Johan. This is a man who set out more than ten years ago to create liquorice anew!”
David went on to show me pictures from the factory on his phone, explaining all the cool machines.
“It’s such a great product” he said “and I find once people try it, they start to love it. Give them a taste of “A” (Chocolate Coated Licorice); I call it the Gateway Licorice (drug) to a happier life!”
But “A” is just the beginning...“B” is white chocolate/passion fruit, “C” is milk chocolate and coffee beans, and “D”...well, D is to die for: Caramel, Chocolate and Crunchy Sea Salt, and there are also “E”, “F” and "1", "2", "3" and "4"!
I’ve tried them all and they are good! Though, if I had to choose one to have with me on a desert island, it would be “A”.
But we get it.
Just because licorice (liquorice) is good for you doesn’t mean it’s top of your list to snack on or add to your next dish. And for many of us, it seems like the last thing you want in your mouth! But it’s worth the taste test, and once you do - like the Scandinavians - the sweetness of nature will make you happy.
And if the usual box of chocolate is not your thing (as a gift), or you just want to mix it up, licorice from Lakrids is the perfect mix of familiar (chocolate) and a swizzle (licorice) to share with your best friends.
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Passion Fruit Chocolate Coated Licorice
Lakrids "B"!
When I had my first ball of licorice, I was careful (not to say trepidacious) and took a bite. This, I can tell you, is not how to eat a lovely ball of Licorice from Lakrids! Instead, from now on, I just pop the licorice in, in its entirety! And joy assumes a place in my life!
Open this "B" - Passion Fruit with passion and you instantly get a giant waft of sweet passion (fruit).
The bright yellow-gold color is fabulous! And enticing!
Crunch down and you get this agrodolce (sour sweet) combination that is spectacular! Passion Fruit and White Chocolate combined with the Licorice of Lakrids makes for a truly desirous candy and your fondness will grow for this letter "B".
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Cool Beans!
Fresh and in-stock (for a moment)
Last summer (actually in 2019, it just seems like last year!) I started collecting canned beans. The original concept was to make eating beans easy, with a few hot dogs tossed in along with frozen (thawed by the time it went in) corn, heated up over the campfire.
Canned corn (think baseball can-of-corn) is easy, but kind of awful compared to modern frozen vegetables for texture and taste. And it turned out that for what I wanted to make - baked beans over the fire - canned beans of any kind just aren’t as good as making beans from dried.
And I tried a lot of canned beans and combinations of canned beans to test this. I really wanted it to be successful: think how easy it would be to open a can, add some extras and watch it heat up over the fire, then how wonderful to spoon your beans into a metal bowl or cup and get that movie sound of cowboys eating beans with a spoon.
Alas, going camping and cooking over the fire hasn’t happened for me in the last few years. And without our oven at home working, I made a lot of canned beans on the stovetop.
And I’m here to say, canned beans are just not as good as dried and soaked that you bake yourself.
I must admit one of my favorite things to make and eat is dried beans soaked overnight and baked in the oven all day! I personally like to cook them low and slow, with just onions, bacon, garlic, real maple syrup and mustard powder.
Ok, so that is a lot of hot air about beans...what I am excited about is that new beans are here. No matter what you do with beans, fresh is best! The crop this year is small; we were lucky to get a second delivery from the 2021 crop.
Order now – supplies are extremely limited!
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Horikawaya Nomura Awase
Mixed Miso
From the supplier:
Nomura-san's miso is some of the best we have ever tried. His commitment to his koji for each miso is a testament to his fine condiments. This wonderful awase miso is what they called a mixed miso, which is something of a cross between white and red miso. Nomura-san ages this miso for one and a half years. The flavor is similar to red, but more mellow and less salty, which works perfectly with subtle flavors. One of our favorite ways to use this product is in a miso soup with eggplant or clams (or any other briny seafood).
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Basic Baked Potato
recipe!
I have been practicing making good baked potatoes for a couple of years...and then I watched this (unexpectedly) great video from the new America's Test Kitchen about how to make perfect baked potatoes! And they are right...they are perfect.
Our version is a little different with the addition of MISO. The key though is temperature. Reach an internal 205 degrees F for perfection!
See the Basic Baked Potato Recipe here!
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Rice Bran Oil
Essential Pantry
Delicate without adding a flavor, rice bran oil just may be the world's healthiest edible oil. Rice bran oil comes from the most nutritious part of the rice grain; loaded with monounsaturated fats & polyunsaturated fats, as well as vitamin E. These are the good fats that help your body lose weight.
This all means that Non-GMO rice bran oil is not only nutritious, but a superior salad, cooking, baking and frying oil that leaves no lingering aftertaste.
Extremely versatile, rice bran oil is an excellent choice for baking as well as just about any cooking method, from deep-frying to pan-frying, sautéing to stir-frying, baking to grilling.
High Smoke Point: At 485 degrees, it is higher than either peanut oil or grapeseed oil, preventing fatty acid breakdown at high temperatures. Its light viscosity allows less oil to be absorbed in cooking, thereby reducing overall calories - many of our chefs have reported using about half the cooking oil they typically use, due to the fact that Rice Bran oil is so thin.
Almost no flavor: Which means it plays well with others. Rice Bran will not impart flavor to foods, letting all the other ingredients shine though.
Excellent Shelf Life: Rice bran oil has a long shelf life compared to other cooking oils, partly because of the antioxidants. Most of the commercially-produced cooking oils don't have the same level of anti-oxidant protection - which means many of the commercial oils (vegetable oil, canola oil, corn oil and safflower oil, to name a few...) have already gone rancid when you buy them in the grocery store.
Non-GMO: Unlike almost all commercially-produced cooking oils, the highest-quality Rice Bran Oil comes from Brazil, and most of the finished product goes to Japan. (Rice bran oil is the preferred frying oil for tempura.)
Nutritional Benefits: Excellent source of vitamin E complex, antioxidants and other micro-nutrients which help fight free radicals and oxidation (otherwise known as rancidity).
A source of many other anti-oxidants, including tocopherols and tocotrienols, a unique antioxidant known as gamma y-oryzanol (known to decrease the symptoms of menopause), phytosterols, polyphenols and squalene.
An excellent balance of saturated, monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats, as recommended by such organizations as the American Heart Association and the World Health Organization. Approx lipid breakdown: 0-2% Omega 3's, 34-39% Omega 6's*, 38-42% Omega 9's, 0-3% Stearic Acid, and approx 18-21% Omega 7's (Palmitic Acid), know to help decrease C-reactive protein (CRP), as well as triglycerides and LDL cholesterol, and increase HDL cholesterol**
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This Week's Recipes |
Ligurian Zucchini & Carrot Pasta Sauce Recipe
Marcella is always where I look first for any traditional pasta recipes. Her cookbook covers most of them -- and always has a good story to go with.
Marcella recommends using spaghetti -- but we had great success with other shapes -- another great long pasta. You will need about 1 pound of uncooked pasta for this recipe.
Adapted from Marcella Hazan's Marcella Cucina, (Harper Collins Publishers, 1997).
Parmigiano-Reggiano with Three Dipping Sauces Recipe
Here are three sauces that will make a perfect appetizer using Parmigiano-Reggiano.
Fa Gao Prosperity Cake Recipe
This classic cake (in a muffin tin) opens up to "smile" and brings prosperity for the New Year. It's a simple cake and is more about the baking process and the opening, and less about being "dessert".
Gung Hei Fat Choi !
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