contest BEGIN! Savory Chocolate Throwdown
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lol, def should be interesting.
salsalady said:Salsalady's Saturday Night Bachelorette Special!
Open a good bottle of wine, or just a box-o-whatever.
Gently peel the foil off of a good bar of chili dark chocolate.
Start "When Harry Met Sally" on Netflix.
Sip, nip, repeat.
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Serve with a large box of tissues.
ENJOY!!!
Don't forget a twilight marathon is on tv.
I think orange rind but PATIENCE SL PATIENCE!
D3monic said:
I haven't even seen a plating so........ ??
SmokenFire said:
SHIT JUST GOT REAL! YES!!!!! SNF!!!
Writeup tomorrow. I'm too busy celebrating that awesome Packers victory right now! What a game!
Chocolate-Orange Duck with Chocolate Pierogis stuffed with Cottage Cheese in Heavy Cream and a side of Mushrooms
Chocolate Orange Duck
6 tsp fine sea salt
1 ducks quartered
Bunch of fresh thyme
2 tbsp butter
1 red onion diced
500ml duck or chicken stock
2 oranges
1 fish pepper
2 tbsp good-quality balsamic vinegar
20g bittersweet chocolate
2 heaped tsp strawberry jam
1 cup of grapes
Salt the duck quarters and brown them with the red onion and butter. Place all that in a roasting pan in the oven at 375 for 30 minutes.
In a sauce pan put the vinegar, grapes, fish pepper and stock with julienned orange peel reduce. When duck is finished, pour off the oil and put the sauce in the pan. Add juice from orange, the jam and the chocolate. Simmer and crush the grapes
Put duck on plate and pour sauce over.
Chocolate Pierogi stuffed with Cottage Cheese in Heavy Cream
3 cups flour
1 tsp chili powder
1 cup powdered cocoa
2 eggs
2 cups warms water
16 oz cottage cheese drained
Heavy Cream
mix flour, cocoa, eggs and water and kneed till soft and silky. Cut into four part and roll out to 1/8 inch. Place one sheet on top of pierogi maker, fill spaces with 1 tsp of cottage cheese, put other sheet of dough on top of that and roll.
Boil pierogi in salted water until they float to the top. Use spoon to scrape bottom to make sure they are not sticking there. Put into hot heavy cream for a couple of minutes after cooking in the boiling water.
Quick mushrooms
Mushrooms
garlic
olive oil
Put olive oil in pan, saute sliced garlic lightly then add sliced mushrooms. Cook for about 5 minutes.
Chocolate Orange Duck
6 tsp fine sea salt
1 ducks quartered
Bunch of fresh thyme
2 tbsp butter
1 red onion diced
500ml duck or chicken stock
2 oranges
1 fish pepper
2 tbsp good-quality balsamic vinegar
20g bittersweet chocolate
2 heaped tsp strawberry jam
1 cup of grapes
Salt the duck quarters and brown them with the red onion and butter. Place all that in a roasting pan in the oven at 375 for 30 minutes.
In a sauce pan put the vinegar, grapes, fish pepper and stock with julienned orange peel reduce. When duck is finished, pour off the oil and put the sauce in the pan. Add juice from orange, the jam and the chocolate. Simmer and crush the grapes
Put duck on plate and pour sauce over.
Chocolate Pierogi stuffed with Cottage Cheese in Heavy Cream
3 cups flour
1 tsp chili powder
1 cup powdered cocoa
2 eggs
2 cups warms water
16 oz cottage cheese drained
Heavy Cream
mix flour, cocoa, eggs and water and kneed till soft and silky. Cut into four part and roll out to 1/8 inch. Place one sheet on top of pierogi maker, fill spaces with 1 tsp of cottage cheese, put other sheet of dough on top of that and roll.
Boil pierogi in salted water until they float to the top. Use spoon to scrape bottom to make sure they are not sticking there. Put into hot heavy cream for a couple of minutes after cooking in the boiling water.
Quick mushrooms
Mushrooms
garlic
olive oil
Put olive oil in pan, saute sliced garlic lightly then add sliced mushrooms. Cook for about 5 minutes.
Damn HS!
D3monic said:
Chocolate cheese and cream? Gsssszzh.
The amount of gumbo I ate for dinner could only be described as "irresponsible", but I would still just destroy a heap of those right now!SmokenFire said:
Offset, serrated all-purpose chef's/bread knife?
Check!
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