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| Re: The Grandness of Life [message #8692 is a reply to message #8689 ] |
Mon, 22 December 2008 20:37   |
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| Ithilien wrote on Tue, 23 December 2008 14:02 |
| BlueRose wrote on Sun, 21 December 2008 23:25 |
And I dont understand the need to put it in chocolate mousse - all you need is good chocolate and firmly whipped cream. Anything else is just being poncy IMHO !
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Really? Recipe?
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Well mostly when I cook this kind of stuff I dont follow a recipe these days (I specialise in making fancy desserts)
500ml cream
(not heavy cream and not the low fat kind either - the kind for whipping - I dont know the fat % overseas but ours is around 40%)
around 3-400 grams of chocolate
I use dark chocolate, and I dont add any sugar because Im a dark chocolate fan, and I like the flavour but choose the type of chocolate you prefer. Just note it shouldnt be a sweet mousse IMHO - you add sweetness by fruit etc
Very important to make sure it is *real* chocolate and not the kind with vegetable oil (or any other kind of fat other than cocoa mass and milkfat - if milk chocolate)
Vege oil chocolate melts at a much higher temperature, is usually poorer quality, and often doesnt melt smoothly , giving you a gritty texture.
Melt chocolate in double boiler (or like I have for years, a stainless steel bowl placed in a small pot, with about an inch of water simmering - dont boil as it will get too hot and burn the chocolate, and proper chocolate melts at a fairly low temp.
While melting, pour cream into large bowl and whip until firm peaks form.
Once chocolate is melted, pour into whipped cream, mix and either put directly into fancy serving dish and chill, or chill in big bowl. Make sure you cover with gladwrap to stop skin forming and dessert picking up other flavours from the inside of your fridge.
Note on mixing chocolate with cream, when you mix hot chocolate with cold cream, it tends to set very quickly. So when you mix it in you have to be very quick so that it doesnt set on the bottom of the bowl and go all grainy. stir in til colour is all even.
Otherwise you can mix in a dollop of cream to cool it down a bit first and add a bit of volume, but I never bother.
You can also add a dollop of alchol for flavour, but just a dessertspoon full at the maximum, otherwise the flavour will be overpowering and it can interfere with the setting process.
This mix can be made into cheesecake by just putting into a crust and decorating all fancy. The settability is due to the ratio of chocolate to cream - firmer set can be gotten by adding more chocolate - but I have never had anyone turn away soft gloopy mousse 
Heres some recipes I wrote for my website many many years ago
http://www.geocities.com/theonlybluerose/dessert.htm
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| Re: The Grandness of Life [message #8719 is a reply to message #8575 ] |
Tue, 23 December 2008 16:50 |
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I've had salmonella twice. The second time I was in The Burren in Ireland. I don't do raw eggs. The culprit was the fresh mayo I had on my sandwich.
"And by the way you look fantastic in your boots of Chinese plastic."
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| Re: The Grandness of Life [message #8829 is a reply to message #8685 ] |
Thu, 25 December 2008 03:31 |
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| Robin wrote on Tue, 23 December 2008 00:29 |
Hmm. I hope your homeopath was specifically telling you the specific client for specific reasons to give up coffee, and not that your homeopath was doing the usual 'mustn't have coffee-tea-peppermint-blah because will antidote remedies' schtick which is, I'm sorry, nonsense in most cases. [Puts arms over head to defend against furious homeopath for homeopathic college drop out interference]
True story: Rajan Sankaran, you have probably heard of him?, he is perhaps the most famous homeopath in the world at the moment, was at the beginning of his career treating his grandmother. He told her that she *had* to give up her coffee, which was her favourite thing. HAD to give it up to get well. Then he gave her her remedy. She got better. Then he said, with the smugness of the young and successful, there, wasn't it worth giving up coffee to get better? I didn't give it up, she said.
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Great story! The sagacity and independence of age are lovely things (and the homeopathy's no slouch either)
Someone says "pie" and we all go on alert, like meercats. "Pie? Where?" - Blackbear
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| Re: The Grandness of Life [message #8859 is a reply to message #8829 ] |
Thu, 25 December 2008 18:09 |
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The thing that bothers me, which I should have said originally but I know I'm dangerous :), is that us homeopaths and homeopathy-boosters need to *encourage* people to try homeopathy, not make it *hard.* You lose a lot of potential clients as soon as you start saying things like no caffeine, no alcohol, no sugar, do this, do that, eat your greens, go to bed early. :) And in the VAST majority of cases it IS NOT NECESSARY. You will get the occasional oversensitive who can't have, say, caffeine . . . but that's something you worry about later if the remedies are having no effect. Homeopathy is both *very adaptable* and also very OF THE REAL WORLD. In the real world people drink tea and coffee and alcohol. I know homeopaths who refuse to treat people who smoke. Spare me. I won't have them smoke in my office, but I *leap* to treat them. Whatever they're coming to me for I'm going to have it in the back of my mind that if I fix that, I *may* be able to help them give up smoking.
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| Re: The Grandness of Life [message #8897 is a reply to message #8864 ] |
Fri, 26 December 2008 03:32 |
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| Robin wrote on Thu, 25 December 2008 23:37 |
YES. EXACTLY.
Unfortunately the whole guru/my way is the ONLY way thing is alive and well in homeopathy. It's not always the gurus' fault--some of them are arrogant a-------, yes, but some of them are just good at what they do, and they inevitably develop disciples, and sometimes some of the disciples are a--------. But THERE IS NO ONE SINGLE CORRECT WAY. In homeopathy or anything else. And since homeopathy is freaking BASED on the idea that *everyone is a unique individual* it bugs me worse when the One True Way rears its ugly blind head.
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Healing is a two way process which starts with listening - so many studies of placebos have high lighted the effect that being given time and being listened to by health professionals plays in well being and recovery... and is then usually discounted as not important - PLEASE can medical professionals start to treat patients as partners in their own care? I prefer alternative therapies, and a large part is due to the attitude of the practitioners
Someone says "pie" and we all go on alert, like meercats. "Pie? Where?" - Blackbear
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