Quoting Michael Loo to All on 10-10-19 08:41 <=-
A bunch of chocolates, tasted at intervals throughout the event
Fair chocolat noir ML> Fair chocolat noir BIO 70% - I thought this
would be my favorite,
but it was dominated by a toasted bean taste that unbalanced it.
Nancy kind of liked it and nobody else did, especially after they
heard my assessment, so home it went with her.
Actually, I'm pretty sure that Ruth kept that one... I didn't mind the
beany taste that much as I do like black bean things...
Huh - I was sure she didn't care for that one, but operating
with scanty notes makes one fail on occasion.
The beany taste in some chocolate I can take or leave, but
a lot of the time when I mention it, people go ugh, gross,
not associating that kind of taste with dessert.
Yes, I know that cacao beans aren't real beans any more than
coffee is, but the flavors are beany enough, and the roasting
and processing can bring out or suppress that note.
Moser Roth chocolat raffine noir amandes - 52% cacao mass,
33% almonds - a favorite, the 52% being heartily chocolaty and
the nuts fresh and nicely toasted. As there were that many nuts,
the sugar did not predominate as one might expect of a 50-odd.
That's the one I took the leftovers of...
Ah.
Chocolat dessert corse 64% - this was very neutrally chocolaty
with nothing stepping forward; I found it good, but most of the
people at table preferred the 52%. I took it back for sustenance
on the ride back, and between Nancy and me the bar was gone by
the morning after we arrived at the Shipps'.
It was quite nice, too... :)
It was sort of pure chocolate flavor, not too much sugar or
vanilla or other adulterants.
I'd hoped pineapple coconut would be like a pina colada, but
the taste was mostly pineapple, the coconut mostly contributed
by the coconut water, which is naturally light in flavor.
I had a taste of that one...
Strawberry banana was okay, thankfully without a huge overplus
of banana esters. Good acid helped.
.. but not of this...
It could have easily been had, and I can't say my usual
"you didn't miss much," as it was as tasty as the others.
Orange mango was the truest to the nature of these fruits despite
having no actual juice.
I did have a full bottle of this one, and it was good enough...
The zero juice did grate on me a bit.
I appreciated these because unlike most sports drinks, these
were very heavy on the potassium and had relatively little
sodium. They were packed with vitamins as well, but that was
That could explain why I enjoyed it more than the usual sports drink,
which I tend to avoid... ;)
I'd tasted the original commercial version of Gatorade and
noted that why would anyone actually want to drink something
that tasted like sweat?
MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.01
Title: Lasagne Frutta
Categories: Cyberealm, Side dishes
Yield: 2 servings
5 oz Cottage Cheese,pureed
5 oz Mascarpone
2 Eggs
3 tb Sugar
1 Lemon
3 oz Raisins
2 oz Almonds,chopped
2 oz Pistachios,chopped
1 Tart Apple
3 Lasagnenoodles
1.Mix the pureed cheese with the eggyolk, sugar and lemonjuice.
2.Grate the lemonpeel and add with raisins and half of the
pistachios. 3.Beat eggwhites until stiff and fold under all. 4.Peel
apples and core and cut into small strips. 5.Boil noodles about 3
minutes; run quickly under cold water. 6.In a small lasagneform
alternate noodles, apples and cheese mix, ending with cheese. 7.Bake
dish for 40 minutes at 175 C in preheated oven. 8.Before serving
sprinkle the rest of the pistachios over the top. Translated by
brigitte Sealing, Cyberealm BBS Watertown NY 315-786-1120
MMMMM
BIO 70% - I thought this would be my favorite,
but it was dominated by a toasted bean taste that unbalanced it.
Nancy kind of liked it and nobody else did, especially after they
heard my assessment, so home it went with her.
Actually, I'm pretty sure that Ruth kept that one... I didn't mind the
beany taste that much as I do like black bean things...
Moser Roth chocolat raffine noir amandes - 52% cacao mass,
33% almonds - a favorite, the 52% being heartily chocolaty and
the nuts fresh and nicely toasted. As there were that many nuts,
the sugar did not predominate as one might expect of a 50-odd.
That's the one I took the leftovers of...
Chocolat dessert 52% - strong vanilla with a bit of a burned
undertone; nonetheless decent, and people liked it. This line is
I believe designed as a cooking as well as eating bar and came
in a 200 g pack.
Chocolat dessert corse 64% - this was very neutrally chocolaty
with nothing stepping forward; I found it good, but most of the
people at table preferred the 52%. I took it back for sustenance
on the ride back, and between Nancy and me the bar was gone by
the morning after we arrived at the Shipps'.
It was quite nice, too... :)
Body Armor "superior hydration" sports drinks, containing 10%
coconut water, no actual juice.
These were pleasantly not too sweet despite containing quite a
few sugar carbs.
I'd hoped pineapple coconut would be like a pina colada, but
the taste was mostly pineapple, the coconut mostly contributed
by the coconut water, which is naturally light in flavor.
I had a taste of that one...
Strawberry banana was okay, thankfully without a huge overplus
of banana esters. Good acid helped.
.. but not of this...
Orange mango was the truest to the nature of these fruits despite
having no actual juice.
I did have a full bottle of this one, and it was good enough...
I appreciated these because unlike most sports drinks, these
were very heavy on the potassium and had relatively little
sodium. They were packed with vitamins as well, but that was
not so important to me. because I figure in the natural scheme
of things I get enough if not a surplus of them (C excluded, so
on occasion I take C supplements).
That could explain why I enjoyed it more than the usual sports drink,
which I tend to avoid... ;)
ttyl neb
... To boldly go where no sane person has any business.
___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.20
--- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.0pr5
* Origin: Fido Since 1991 | QWK by Web | BBS.FIDOSYSOP.ORG (1:123/140)