Current work: admin and Modern Heat (I will get time to work, I will, I will – had a decent night’s sleep last night so am not a complete zombie as I was yesterday)
Listening to: Kathryn Williams
Reading: Kate Harrison, The Secret Shopper’s Revenge (this is a sheer joy of a book – other one wasn’t my cuppa tea and I’d rather spend my precious reading time on something I do enjoy reading. Interestingly, both are first person. But Kate’s book has characterisation that really grabbed me and kept me reading until I was too tired to keep my eyes open.)
Following on from yesterday’s post – one of my fellow guests on BBC Radio Norfolk last week was Angela Ruthven, founder of Saffire chocolates. I said the samples were gorgeous. I didn’t say HOW gorgeous. The white chocolate and lavender one was scrummy. Ditto the coffee and vanilla one. And the praline one. And… Oh, let’s just say these are better than Hotel Chocolat, in my opinion (and regular readers/personal friends know these are my big weakness). Delia Smith recommends them. These are SERIOUSLY good chocolates.
I have a feeling that I will have to write a chocolatier heroine and go and spend some time shadowing Angela. (As well as my radio book. Dear lovely editor, if you’re reading this… big hint… will send you choccies…)
Angela also told me about Aero Man. Now, I don’t like Nestlé chocolate (it’s the texture) but she told me to check out the ad. That my readers would like it.
So I did.
And here, for your delectation, is Aero Man.
Enjoy. (But take my advice and get some decent chocolate to go with the totty view. Saffire, Hotel Chocolat, Green & Black’s or Lindor.)
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Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Tuesday, May 06, 2008
Chocolate...
My fellow M&B author and Writer In Residence for Bedfordshire in the 2008 National Year of Reading, Natasha Oakley, has started in style by challenging her fellow authors to come up with chocolate recipes.
I've been beaten to the choc-chip cookie one... so here's one for White Chocolate Mousse.
Please note this recipe contains lightly cooked eggs and may not be suitable for children, the elderly or pregnant women.
175g white chocolate
250ml double/whipping cream
3 tbs milk
2 eggs
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
raspberries, to serve
Place chopped white choc in a medium microwave-safe bowl . Heat on high (100% power) for 2-3 mins, until choc is melted, stirring twice. Remove from oven; stir until smooth.
In small bowl with fork or whisk, beat milk and eggs. Gradually beat egg mixture into melted choc until blended.
Cook choc mixture on medium (50% power) in microwave for 2.5-3 mins, until thickened slightly, stirring halfway through cooking. Do not boil.
Stir in vanilla extract.
Cover and refrigerate for 30 mins, until well chilled, stirring occasionally.
Beat chilled choc mixture for 1 min at medium speed.
Whip cream until soft peaks form.
Gently fold cream into choc mixture. Spoon into serving dish. Decorate with raspberries before serving.
Enjoy!
I've been beaten to the choc-chip cookie one... so here's one for White Chocolate Mousse.
Please note this recipe contains lightly cooked eggs and may not be suitable for children, the elderly or pregnant women.
175g white chocolate
250ml double/whipping cream
3 tbs milk
2 eggs
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
raspberries, to serve
Place chopped white choc in a medium microwave-safe bowl . Heat on high (100% power) for 2-3 mins, until choc is melted, stirring twice. Remove from oven; stir until smooth.
In small bowl with fork or whisk, beat milk and eggs. Gradually beat egg mixture into melted choc until blended.
Cook choc mixture on medium (50% power) in microwave for 2.5-3 mins, until thickened slightly, stirring halfway through cooking. Do not boil.
Stir in vanilla extract.
Cover and refrigerate for 30 mins, until well chilled, stirring occasionally.
Beat chilled choc mixture for 1 min at medium speed.
Whip cream until soft peaks form.
Gently fold cream into choc mixture. Spoon into serving dish. Decorate with raspberries before serving.
Enjoy!
Monday, July 16, 2007
A Kate bit - busybusybusy
Busy day today. If you want to know what kind of day ‘Scary Kate’ really has, go and have a look at Coffee Time Romance, because they’re featuring me today as part of their ‘day in a life’ series about Harlequin authors (thank you, Karenne) and you get a chance to win a copy of Breakfast at Giovanni's. I dunno what t’other Kate is on about because it ISN’T that scary… Really… :o)
Today’s list of things to do:
Today’s list of things to do:
- write blog for PHS (waves to Ally Blake)
- see GP for routine blood pressure cheque (if it’s high will explain re dental traumas and visit due tomorrow)
- write lots of my Medical romance (and maybe talk to my ed re schedule – a week or so on codeine/in pain wasn’t conducive to writing and totally stuffed my schedule)
- take son to osteopath
- put cheque in bank
- quick and naughty Hotel Chocolat visit to see if gianduja is back in stock because I need to batter some crows
- try and sneak in some more work while cooking dinner
- governor meeting at school
- maybe more work, depending on how tired I am (deadline ahoy)
- write packing list for Friday (saves forgetting something and can cut-and-paste things to weekly shop list for Wednesday)…
And at this point I’m going to hide from the Slowing Down Police. (And which one of you lot nobbled my dad and my son, then? I was nagged yesterday. By both of them. A *lot*.) Perhaps this is where I should also mention that I am going to take a WHOLE WEEK OFF, starting Saturday morning… because it's our family holiday and the deal is that I Do Not Work.
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