Chocolate
Name That Dish!
If you don't want to make Milano cookies for your sweetheart, you could prepare the sandwich dessert that's pictured below instead. Do you know what it's called?
Yummy Links: From Conversation Hearts to Chicken Curry
- Treat your valentine to homemade conversation hearts. — Serious Eats
- Alice Waters and David Chang have joined forces to promote the edible schoolyard. — Eater NY
- Why chocolate and peanuts are better together than when alone.
What Do You Know About Hershey's Chocolate?
Today, Feb. 9, isn't just any old Tuesday: 116 years ago, a small confectioner by the name of Milton Hershey founded his own company. More than 11 decades later, the brand is one of the biggest candy confectioneries in the world, with upwards of 14,000 employees and more than $5 billion in sweets sales.
10 Chocolate Bars to Enjoy on Valentine's Day
This year, instead of picking up a standard box of chocolate, grab a chocolate bar. With a box of chocolates, there's always the inevitable ones you don't like, but if you get a bar, you can select your favorite flavor and enjoy the whole thing! It's also incredibly romantic tearing off a chunk of chocolate while sipping a glass of red wine.
Chocolate Gets Even Yummier
I'm a sucker for Valentine's Day, mostly because I'll take any excuse you throw at me to eat chocolate. Heck, even my doctor says I should incorporate a little bit of dark chocolate into my diet — it can soothe a cough, increase blood flow, and lower blood pressure. Dark chocolate is also full of flavonoids, the antioxidant family that help protect the heart.
Yummy Links: From Dessert Bars to Food T-Shirts
- Be inspired by this lovely Valentine's Day dessert buffet. — Hostess With the Mostess
- The Travel Channel is launching another food competition show. — Eater
- Learn how to behave better when dining out.
Must Read: Chocolates and Confections
I should have put self-control on my list of New Year's resolutions, because I haven't been able to resist temptation this month, especially when it comes to nostalgic candies, dragées, or any charming confection. At least one publisher appealed to my weakness when I received a copy of Peter Greweling's Chocolates and Confections at Home With the Culinary Institute of America ($23), I think my heart actually skipped a beat. Did it let me down?
Come Party With Me: Romantic Dinner — Dessert
No romantic dinner is complete without a sweet finish and an occasion like Valentine's Day requires chocolate. Select a dish that's decadent, but can be made in advance. I recommend these creamy chocolate pots.
Yummy Links: From Grant Achatz to Pepperoni Pizza
- Super Chef Grant Achatz has plans to open a bar in Chicago. — Eater
- Endless Simmer has launched a recipe database. — Endless Simmer
- On Valentine's Day, make dumplings with your little dumplings.
What's Your Least Favorite Scent?
I was talking to CasaSugar today and found out that she isn't the biggest fan of vanilla-scented things, which got a bunch of us into a conversation about different common scents we're not so fond of inhaling.
It turns out PartySugar doesn't like incense and I cannot condone that waxy fake chocolate scent (organic and real chocolate notes, though, I love.) It seems like all of us have at least one Achilles' heel when it comes to smells. So now I want to know if there's a common scent you can't stand, and if you have one, what is it?
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