#choco addict

By Lara Rouse 

Can’t decide on the food you want to serve at your party?

Chocolate is always a good starting place, but what should go with it?

You can mimic the techniques of gourmet chefs to make even very simple party food memorable. The main goal is to pair foods that bring a variety of flavors and consistencies together so that the individual foods enhance each other.

Consider…

By Zayne B Caldwell 

Ingredients

3 cups heavy cream

1/2 cup cocoa

4 egg yolks

4 large eggs

1 cup of peanut butter

3/4 cup erythritol or similar artificial sweetener (blue agave also works!)

2 teaspoons vanilla extract

pinch of kosher salt

1/4 cup unflavored/unsweetened almond milk

2-3 teaspoons gelatin mixed together with 3-4 tablespoons water (optional)

2…

By Leo Eigenberg

Chocolate is appreciated for a variety of reasons. Many of these reasons relate to the feel good chemicals contained in chocolate, such as tryptophan, tyrosine, theobromine and caffeine.

However, the preferred chocolate is the dark type which has the highest concentration of cocoa, is high in antioxidants and is low in fat.

Let’s take a look at the benefits of eating a…

By Lynne Evans  

As far as we know, the first European to be served with a hot chocolate drink was the Spanish explorer, Hernando Cortez (1485 – 1547). When he first tasted this spicy drink, he was in the court of the Aztec emperor, Montezuma II.

This drink was a far cry from the ubiquitous hot drinking chocolate we have today.

It was made with ground cacao beans, chili peppers,…