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Cleopatras favorite treat
Chocolate Crunchy Pearls
A longtime ago (maybe thousands of years), well before written history, or at least typewriters, a discovery of evidence shows that man had discovered pearls. And as history is written since the invention of typewriters, the white, hard, lustrous pearls had been found on the shores of many beaches. With their wonderful inner glow these rare, hard-to-find gems have become some of the most valuable natural gems in the world.
The Egyptians, who had excellent preservation techniques, buried these gems with their Pharaohs. Known also for their food “stores” for the long travel to the “afterworld” great knowledge has been gained by deciphering these “found” food objects.
What you might not know is that the great secret warehouses of the modern world hide some very important treasures. Some of these secrets of course would be best not to know. Such as aliens from outer space are amongst us in the shapes of house cats and poodles.
To those of us where foods are so important to our happy place, there are some secrets that are held within those walls that shouldn’t be kept.
One secret is about those pearls. While history says it was all about the hard white pearls, there is proof that in fact that what
Cleopatra loved more than anything is indeed a very special pearl. And these pearls were made out of cocoa beans, sugar, cocoa butter, and wheat. Reportedly she would eat them by the handful, on top of
frosted cupcakes, or in a rich
mousse!
Her French Chef, because of the possibility of war over the pearls, served them secretly in oyster shells. Kept chilled on a bed of ice cold Rialto beach rocks, white pearls (the gems) were added for a visual cloak. We believe this is where the confusion lies. The chocolate of course did not survive time and the gems did. The anthropologists have assumed that the gems were the treasure.
And we know now these
Chocolate Crunchy Pearls are an amazing gem! A single one is tiny, but an explosive bite of chocolate flavor. The crunchy center is just right! A handful is like a mouthful of small balls all moving around crunching delightfully all packed with flavor. Just like Cleopatra ordered, these are a treat-to-eat, perfect and just-in-time for baking season!
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Fish Sauce
They are as different as night & day
Fish sauce has all the things that I don't like in a fresh fish.
Stinky, which is the smell of fermentation, is big and vibrant in a strong kind of way. It’s a magical concoction, a potion for your food, so it really qualifies in the truest definition of an elixir. Though not so tasty to the tongue in flavor, it’s really hard to think of the brew that way, romance is what “elixir” means to me, and thus less fishy and more, well, sweetly romantic.
But as an ingredient, it truly is one of the most amazing things you can add to many, many dishes. From a drop to a splash to actually measuring out a portion, you can add flavor and taste like almost no other ingredient you can find.
Shop now for some Essential Fish Sauce!
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Valrhona White Chocolate
This is what white chocolate should taste like!
Let’s clear this up right away.
White chocolate is not chocolate because it does not contain cocoa solids, thus missing the elements of riboflavin and thiamine, key ingredients of chocolate liquor. Chocolate liquor is usually made up of at least 50% cocoa butter, a product of ground roasted cocoa beans, and those solids mentioned earlier. And Valrhona white chocolate is made up of 33% cocoa butter, whole milk powder, sugar and vanilla extract.
It is interesting (confusing?) that white chocolate is not chocolate, but chocolate is not chocolate without cocoa butter. Well, that isn’t completely true either, because now chocolate can be chocolate without cocoa butter, I think. You can decipher at the FDA site for Cocoa Products.
So now that is all established, it’s still called "white chocolate", and when white chocolate is good it is really, really, really good! It was my sister's favorite chocolate of all and I have a love of it, too! Pop a
feve in and warm it with your mouth. Like its cousin, dark chocolate, you are rewarded immediately with the cocoa butter and vanilla flavor. Rich and satisfying as candy or baking your best holiday cookies.
Valrhona Ivoire Baking Chocolate!
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