Yes, I was serious yesterday when I
wrote about enjoying a dark chocolate bar with blackberries &
sage. Don't believe me?
One, it's chocolate, so I wouldn't kid
about that, and two, it's sage & blackberry, so I wouldn't kid
about that either. But that got me to thinking, which we all know is
a dangerous thing—what are some of the other interesting chocolate
flavor combinations I've had recently?
Well, how about a dark chocolate, lime,
& mint bar?
Despite loving all three of those
ingredients, the bar really didn't do it for me. I mean, I know they
were trying to recreate a mojito in a chocolate bar, but no. Just
no.
This one was a little more successful--
It's a Lindt bar with blueberry and
lavender filling encased in dark chocolate. Once again, it's a case
of three flavors I love separately. Unlike the mojito bar, they
actually all work together.
While I'm not a fan of white chocolate
(which, if we're being honest here, isn't really "chocolate", as
it's missing the chocolate liquor part of chocolate), I could eat one
of these in three bites--
The mix of lemon & buttermilk is
really out of this world, and you really don't notice that you're
eating white “chocolate” instead of, you know, real chocolate.
Like Crunch bars but want to kick them
up a notch? Try this--
Or this--
Crunch bars usually use puffed rice to
supply the “crunch”, but using either quinoa or sesame seeds just
adds a little extra kick to it.
Finally, ever think of mixing dark
chocolate and dark beer? Nope; I hadn't either, until I tried one of
these--
Kostritzer is Loraine's favorite German
beer, and when we saw the chocolates we weren't quite sure the two
would go together. But you know what? They really do, and I'm not
really even that big of a fan of beer.
Okay (and here's sentence I never
thought I'd write) that's enough about chocolate for now (and I didn't even mention perhaps my favorite chocolate of all time, the dark chocolate/pink grapefruit combo I've written about before). I hafta go
look out the window and see if Mother Nature “graced” us with any
snow last night. That's NOT a task to which I'm looking forward!
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