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Review: Chocri Customized Chocolate Bars

When I received a very friendly email from Chocri offering to send me three of their custom chocolate bars in the hopes of hearing my opinion of them, I jumped at the chance.

Asides

  • New favorite omelet: saute whole basil and baby spinach leaves in butter or olive oil before adding the eggs. Fill with cottage cheese, top with marinara sauce. I'm calling it the "Lasagna Omelet" because my mom always made lasagna with cottage cheese when I was a kid, and this brings back all the flavors for me in a fraction of the time. Post a comment
  • Coastal Kitchen, a Seattle restaurant that changes half its menu every few months to celebrate a different world cuisine, is now offering the hilarious "language tapes" they play in their bathrooms for free on their website, either as MP3 downloads or audio streams. I'm listening to the one for Greece now, which is fortunate because I've always wanted to know how to say this in Greek: "Ancient Greeks used sea sponges to pad their helmets during battle. This was effective 98% of the time, showing once again that only abstinence offers a 100% guarantee." One comment
  • Taste bud torture: the smell of brownies permeating the house for at least an hour before they're fully baked and ready to cut. Post a comment

Recipes

  • My quinoa won't win any awards for being photogenic, and sometimes it doesn't come out the ideal al dente texture. But I can have a healthy and satisfying one-pot meal tailored to whatever cuisine I'm craving ready in 45 minutes start to finish with only a quick raid of my cupboard and 10 minutes of my attention needed.

  • To understand this recipe, you have to know one thing about me: I eat cheddar cheese on top of my banana bread. Yes, I know I'm weird. But I also know that it tastes really good. This recipe is the result of my experimentation with adding the cheese straight into the bread.

  • Crystallized ginger gives this steel-cut oatmeal the glitz to be the star of any breakfast table, while the spices and creamy texture keep it grounded in the world of comfort food.

  • This yogurt is wonderful over fruit--mangoes, yes, but just about any other fruit as well--and particularly good over steel-cut oatmeal.

  • Here is a stripped-down recipe for the cherries based on the more detailed instructions and observations in these entries: Chocolate-Covered Cherries, Part One and Part Two.

Jessica and Chris

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Join Jessica (The Other Tiger), her husband Chris and their friend Matthew as they bake, cook and eat in Seattle.

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