Pages Tagged “Trial of the Palate”
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- So, who had “rain of chocolate” on their 2020 bingo card?
A broken ventilation system in a Swiss chocolate factory led to cocoa powder raining (or snowing, if you prefer) down on nearby towns. The company says one car was lightly, and possibly deliciously, coated. It has offered to pay for any cleaning needed but hasn’t yet been taken up on the offer. — AP I’ve […]
- Wait, FOUR flavors? Shouldn’t that be a Chocolate Quadrilemma?
Chocolate Dilemma cheesecake?
- The Office Barista: Simple Drinks For Your Coffee Break
Don’t have time to go to Starbucks, but want something more than plain coffee? Here are some simple drinks you can make with ingredients that might be in your lunch room, or that you can easily keep at your desk. Coffee + hot chocolate mix = mocha Coffee + hot chocolate mix + cinnamon Hot […]
- LOST Finale: DHARMA Initiative Cake and Pizza
Remember the Battlestar Galactica cake? For last night’s LOST finale, Katie made an authentic DHARMA Initiative chocolate cake, and pizzas with the Swan and Orchid logos. The cake is chocolate, with homemade buttercream icing (vanilla for the background, chocolate for the design). The pizzas have an outer ring of sausage, with bell pepper strips for […]
- Coffeechocolatea
I’m trying to make 8-hour old coffee palatable by adding both chai tea and hot chocolate mix. It’s…palatable.
- Chocolate Mint
After our trip to the nursery this weekend, Katie started seriously looking at our existing plants. We have a mint plant that got so pot-bound it grew down, through the drainage holes at the base of the pot, and back up the outside of the pot. She decided to make cuttings out of those bits… […]
- Makeshift Moroccan Mint Mocha
CBTL has a drink they call a Moroccan Mint Latte. It’s a tea latte with chocolate. You can make something close by making hot chocolate mix with mint tea.
- Only in San Diego? Volume 2 Part 1
The Vegetable Garage, cactus feet, Sam Adams smoothies, Haunted Hotel, a cubic Stonehenge, and other strange sights found around San Diego.
- Separated at Birth: Willy Wonka and…
I’ve been trying to figure out who Johnny Depp’s Willy Wonka reminds me of, and it finally hit me. OK, maybe that’s not the best choice of words…
- Donkey Xing
Driving through the lava fields of North Kona, you’ll see signs like these: After coffee companies stopped using donkeys for transportation, they turned them loose, and a herd of wild donkeys roamed the fields. They apparently picked up the nickname “Kona nightingales” from their, uh, “singing.” They’ve since been moved up to greener—and less traveled— […]