Love chocolate

Revolutionary chocolate that takes the internet by storm. All you need is love … and what’s the best aphrodisiac if not chocolate?

Which is why for this valentine’s day I have prepared for you this last minute recipe that requires only 3 common ingredients. Let us make a love chocolate!

If you were planning to make a special Valentine’s Day dessert, but something did not work out or going out is not an option than keep or reading as this is a recipe for you.

Ingredients:
– Chocolate or several chocolate bars, depending on the size of the tin. My mold was very large and in my case I needed 4 chocolates.
– Your favourite nuts. I used a handful of pistachios but I was also tempted to use cashew nuts.
– Additional ingredients and spices, although unnecessary, will be appreciated. I used frozen dried strawberries and a tiny bit of chilli – highly recommended, but you may also add additional type of nuts, dried fruit, jelly beans, dried flower petals or even honeycomb crumbs.

Execution:
Cut or crush the chocolate into small pieces and melt it slowly on a small fire – remember to keep slowly steering the chocolate to not let it boil. Dissolve chocolate in a water bath, i.e. boil the hot water and then put in it your smaller (pot, bowl) filled with chocolate. This will control the melting process. It may sound complicated but trust me frying the chocolate directlly over the hob will jeprodize the process. Alternativelly you could use a microwave.
Pour the melted chocolate into a heart-shaped mold, garnish with nuts and let it cool. if you want to speed up the process, put the mold in the fridge or freezer, of course, after it has already cooled down to not damage your appliances.

P.S. if you don’t have a mold, just cut the heart out of the cardboard, wrap the tape and put out the climbing film. That’s what I did!

Love chocolate

Enjoy the result!

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Watermelon Granita

Are you sweating from toes to head? Do you feel like your brain is melting away? Are you tired of that constant heat…then don’t go away because I have a remedy that will help you keep serenity and high levels of energy at the same time!

The secret lies in a cooling ambrosia that can be written in a form of a simple equation:

(Ice + Water) (Ice + Melon) = Granita Squared Watermelon!

Let me convince you why “Watermelon Granita” is the next big thing for hot summer days.

You see…it’s refreshing, juicy, freezing – if you want it to be, sweet but without added sugar and has so little calories you can eat it all day unlike ice-cream!

So, did I grab your attention by now? Great because that’s not the end of good news.

This dessert is an incredibly easy to make and in fact you only need 1 ingredient: watermelon. Well that and a few modern tools such as: blender, knife, fork and a spoon…don’t forget the spoon! Very important.

So, to summarize:

Ingredients:
One large watermelon. This is the only ingredient of this dish, so you must choose wisely young warlock. Preferably obtain it from a proven source. I am afraid you can forget about Tesco finest and other high street big brands. Best to check the country of origin, the hotter the country the better the watermelon, I personally recommend buying from suppliers that source their watermelons directly from Turkey or Morocco.

Preparation:
Cut the watermelon in half. Half a watermelon is enough for this recipe, but if you want more or if your watermelon is not big enough, then you can use the whole fruit off. Your watermelon, your rules.

Use a tablespoon and a knife to take the pulp out of the watermelon, and then remove the seeds.
Put the pulp into a blender or bowl and blend it. If everything goes according to plan, you should have obtained the watermelon juice – congratulations achievement unlocked!

Now be brave and use the power of the will to not drink it yet.

Instead, put the juice in the freezer and mix it every half hour. I know sounds troublesome and the entire process should take you roughly 4 hours, but I didn’t make this up – it’s necessary to achieve this wonderful grain consistency.

If you managed to do it all. Congratulations! You are now the happy owner of a juicy, refreshing, sweet and delicious watermelon granita.

Additional prototyping:
For me the taste of the watermelon is completely sufficient, but if you want to enrich it you can add some lime juice, mint, cola or rum. If your watermelon isn’t sweet enough, maple syrup can also help. If you don’t want to use a hand blender, you only need a fork to grind the frozen juice every half an hour. You can serve this granite in the shell of the watermelon like I did for that special wow effect!

P.S.

As a blogger I get my inspiration from other bloggers / vloggers and you won’t believe who I have met on the day I made my watermelon granita recipe. Did you ever meet one of your favorite vloggers in real life and recognized them? I sure did! It was quite an event for me so I thought I would share that with you. Roxi from YouTube channel (Roxssaurus) was my lucky encounter. We had a nice conversation at a local Homebase store and as I was just too shocked at the time, I didn’t say much 😊.

If you don’t know Roxi yet, I highly recommend her both   channels: Roxxsaurus and Roxi and Matt

Anyway, let me know my dear readers what you are favorite vloggers?

Did you enjoy this post, and do you feel like making your own watermelon granita?

How do you cope with the heat this summer and how if life treating you in general?

As always thank you kindly for visiting my blog, I hope you enjoy your stay and I look forward to bringing you more recipes! Stay cool and carry watermelon granita with you this summer.

Ewa
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Doomsday clock and datelate

Is it just me or is the outside world turning further and further into an apocalyptic scenario of Mad Max, with a hurricane Ciara blowing across the UK and the Corona Virus reported cases rising every day?
Being a rational citizen that I am, I realize that the doomsday clock is ever so close to midnight while the Valentine’s Day is fast approaching. Seeing how this may be the only opportunity that I got, I have decided to share yet another recipe in order to stay at home and pamper myself in a hygge style.
If like me you don’t like be cold temperature I believe this can be a good recipe for a great evening. Today I have for you a heavenly fragrant, colonial adventure filled with silky sweetness. Have you ever heard of what datelate is? If you haven’t than now it’s the time to challenge yourself and try something new in your life! Now more than ever! So run! Run to your kitchen or nearest store for the necessary products. Believe me, you do not want to wait any longer to try this excellent chocolate which has also so much healthy benefits for you!
So to get started … what we need is your favorite vegetable milk, dates, cocoa, cinnamon, vanilla and salt.

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Our Precise measurements are:
2 glass of plant milk
6 large sun-dried dates
2 tablespoons bitter cocoa
a pinch of sea salt
vanilla cane
a pinch of cinnamon
Optionally, chocolate shavings, whipped cream or whatever you like.

Preparation:
Pour the milk into a saucepan with a thick bottom along with the other ingredients and heat on low heat for about 5 minutes, stirring occasionally. Take the drink off the heat and let it cool down a bit.
Pour this into the blender cup and mix until the texture is silky.
Now light your favorite candle, turn on the music and enjoy the best home winter-valentine experience ever.

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Panna cotta

Ingredients :

glass of almond milk

glass of cream of coconut

5 teaspoon powdered sugar

1 teaspoon of flour

½ vanilla pod

½ teaspoon of agar

Recipe :

With the vanilla pod, remove the seeds. In a small saucepan, mix all the ingredients, also vanilla pod, they will add even more flavor. Heat over medium heat, stirring occasionally.
When the liquid in the saucepan starts to boil wait a minute, then remove from heat and pour into prepared dishes. Leave for half an hour to cool, then put in the fridge for two hours.

Best served with fresh strawberries sauce, but you can use any other fruit sauce, for example, with pomegranate.

Bon Appetit 🙂

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Charlie’s chocolate cream

 

Charlie was one of the poor children of English literature, but in contrast to Oliver Twist or Hary Poter
he had a family. Charlie’s family is 4 grandparents and parents. They not only maltreated him, but they loved him, supported and tried to protect. When families suffer from hunger  parents trying to give their own food for him.                                                                                              Typical family bucket menu is bread and margarine for breakfast, potatoes and cabbage for dinner, soup with cabbage for supper. Not surprisingly that Charlie dreamed about chocolate. This dream was realized once a year when he had a birthday.  Charlie then got one candy bar. Every other day he could just stand in front of the factory gate and dreaming. Fortunately and unfortunately Charlie house was standing next to the largest and most magnificent factory in the world, which belonged to Mr. Wonka -chocolate genius. One day the world became aware that Mr. Wonka hid in their products 5 golden tickets. Five lucky children who find the tickets  will be able to spend one day in the factory. Additional reward is the amount of sweetness to end life. The world has gone mad and everyone wanted to find a golden ticket. Every other day he could just stand in front of the factory gate and dreaming. Fortunately and unfortunately Charlie house was standing next to the largest and most magnificent factory in the world, which belonged to Mr. Wonka -chocolate genius. One day the world became aware that Mr. Wonka hid in their products 5 golden tickets. Five lucky children who find the tickets  will be able to spend one day in the factory. Additional reward is the amount of sweetness to end life. The world has gone mad and everyone wanted to find a golden ticket

 

Ingredience :

Very creamy avocado,  a bit of cocoa and agave syrup.

Recipe :

You have to blend everything. The hardest part is to choose the perfect avocado. It should be ripe, soft and creamy. Very creamy a bit of cocoa and agave syrup

Bon Appetit 🙂

 

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