Did you know that today was National Bittersweet Chocolate Day?
Every type of chocolate starts
with beans from a cacao tree. They're harvested, fermented, and dried, and
roasted. Then the roasted skin is removed, the beans are cracked into nibs,
and the skin is winnowed away. The nibs are ground, then conched (heated and
stirred with the additional ingredients), tempered (cooled), and molded.
I've never met a chocolate I didn't like, but I adore the dark and bittersweet types. Neither contain milk or milk solids. Both have a high percentage of cacao, but bittersweet (as you might suspect) has a bit less sugar than dark.
Coincidentally, yesterday I had received some truffles from a local chocolate shop. After dinner was cleaned up, in honor of Bittersweet Chocolate Day I treated myself to an Italian Espresso Truffle. The dark, chocolately, bittersweet flavor was just what my taste buds were looking for
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Good to stop at one truffle! The day was well celebrated!
ReplyDeleteIt was fortunate that I had the celebration materials on hand :-)
DeleteYum!!
ReplyDeleteJust one? Or one box?
ReplyDeleteYeah, I surprised myself by actually using some will power.
DeleteEven though I’ve lost a lot of my sense of taste, I STILL love dark chocolate!!!
ReplyDeleteI have invented garlic flavoured chocolate.
ReplyDeleteGod bless.
Raw garlic or roasted?
DeleteThanks for the info on the history of chocolate.
ReplyDeleteThere's hardly anyone who doesn't like chocolate. Luckily, I seem to be craving it less ans less.
I wish I could say that my cravings were lessening.
DeleteI love dark chocolate and treat myself to a square or two of Dive individually wrapped dark chocolate. I read somewhere, an overseas orphanage gives the children a square of dark chcolate at breakfast as it acts as a mood enhancer.
ReplyDeleteChocolate for breakfast would make ME happy!
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