9. Coconut Milk Chocolate Ganache. Put it on ANYTHING! I don't care what you do with it (but I'd secretly love to know).
8. Roses! Even better when they are Whole Trade, regardless of what kind of relationship you are in friendly yellow to romantic-creepy blood red.
7. Take a break from chocolate and eat lamb. Cinnamon-pomegranate braised lamb. Very sexy, but don't worry, it's not on the aphrodisiac list, so you are totally safe and perv-free.
6. Still not enough chocolate and want to bake something? Use chocolate stout in this chocolate chip beer bread recipe. Beer, chocolate and bread? Sounds like a good day to me, no matter what day it is.
5. I know, you might want even more chocolate, so why not make it a single origin chocolate bar made entirely from cocoa purchased directly from farmers in the Kyela, Mbeya district of Tanzania (Fair Trade is how we roll, of course). Proceeds from every bar support education programs for school children in the district. We are talking about Whole Foods Market™ Organic Tanzanian Schoolhouse Project Milk and Dark Chocolate Bars. I gave this milk chocolate bar to my honey and so far so good.
4. At this point, eating chocolate might just be too much effort. Maybe it's best just to sip it (switching between wine/champagne and/or bone-luge shots? Hell, why not). Might as well make it spicy too. Heat things up with some Theo Chipotle Spice Sipping Chocolate.
3. If deer penis is hard to come by, you can easily substitute a Spanish fly almond croissant. If you live in Portland, go here for the best one. If not, well then you should come up (or down) here.
2. Sometimes you just want to say cacao to all the fancy stuff. It happens to me all the time. I just want what I usually want, which is a classic nuts-and-chocolate no frills combo. Something rich in
1. This is a toughie, and if you have made it this far, then you deserve to have roses all up in your grill. Which means, make Rose Petal Ricotta with Honey and Pistachios. And drink it with champagne, cause it's good for washing out the grill, yet still maintaining luxurious rose breath.
6 comments:
i would NEVER say cacao to any of these. Chipotle Spice Sipping Chocolate can have its way with me.
Love dark chocolate..and that almond croissant looks heavenly.
This post reminded me of the Portlandia episode where the couple keeps using the word "cacao" as code. Too funny! I love chocolate and keep trying to source new chocolate combinations to try. Theo chocolate sounds delicious and I like the graphics on the package too.
Lydia - I will it know (and I hope your man feels the same way :-)
Angie - Me too and me too!
Helen - You hit the nail on the head. I was totally going for the "cacao" humor. I hope you are gifted some delicious chocolates for V-Day. Have you ever had the Greek Egia chocolate (the national chocolate that comes in blue wrapping and can be found EVERYWHERE in Greece)? It's one of my favs!
Gosh I was looking for 10 reasons to love those very things. Happy Pre-V Day. GREG
loving these reasons and so desperately want to try that almond croissant!
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