Showing posts with label chocolate. Show all posts
Showing posts with label chocolate. Show all posts

Sunday, February 13, 2011

How not to eat chocolate

http://www.instructables.com/id/Chocolate-Covered-Squid---Valentine-s-Day-Candy-Fr/
       Okay a friend of mine gave me this recipe, knowing how much I love chocolate. This has got to be the nastiest way to cook using chocolate ever. A close second would be chocolate covered grasshoppers. This recipe is from the same person who eats chocolate covered bacon, but at least both of those things are yummy on their own. Squid and chocolate do not go together!!! Do you hear me Darren?
         They look like they are fake when covered in chocolate but I can imagine the feel of the slimy rubbery squid as it slides down my throat and I want to puke. I love chocolate but this is one recipe that gets a huge thumb down for me. I do not enjoy calamari, which is at least fried, why in the world would I want to try this. And then he tells me it is spicy too. So throw in the chili powder to hide the taste of the squid or squelch the taste of the chocolate, which by the way was already ruined with the fishy squid flavor.
       When I was in high school my teacher gave us chocolate bars that were really chocolate covered ants and chocolate covered spiders. It really didn't taste all that bad, but when I bite into my chocolate bar I do not want a crunchy spider leg to poke out. Once I saw that it ruined the chocolate taste and made my stomach turn inside out. Don't get me wrong I love chocolate, but somethings need to stay far away from the chocolate. Squid and chocolate should not even be in the same sentence nevermind the same pot.

Monday, January 17, 2011

Chocolate Diet

       Chocolate.....I absolutely am convinced I can live on chocolate. In college I lived on Haggen Daas Ice cream by the pint, had one every night.   I tried the chocolate diet last summer and the results were that I lost 10 pounds. My diet was Reese's Peanut Butter cups, coffee and a Pepsi and then a regular dinner. This diet is not recommended for people with an extremely high metabolism and an inherited propensity for cavities. That is why I lost weight and now I have discovered that I can no longer eat as much chocolate as I wish. My tooth in the back top corner aches and moans when I do now. I am not willing to completely give up chocolate however. So that means a trip to the dentist. Did I mention that I hate going to the dentist, probably even more than going to the doctor?  The doctor does not give you a list of all the things wrong and give you a list that you cannot afford to fufill.
       Back to chocolate....my favorite food, though I am not too keen on mole. I will eat it, but chocolate has its place and on top of meat is not one of them, in my opinion. If I am in a bad mood or having a bad day...chocolate can save the day. Recently a friend of mine made chocolate chip and bacon cookies. I love chocolate chip cookies and I love bacon, but I am hesitant to mix the two. I am not picky about the kind of chocolate either. Yes peanut butter cups are fabulous but so are pretzel m&ms. I also eat white chocolate, but I am not too keen on the white chocolate reese's peanut butter cups. I mainly only have the white chocolate in my coffee, but I like darker chocolate coffees as well. Dark chocolate is also especially tasty and it is good for you. Hmmm...maybe I should have had dark chocolate in my diet. My poor eating habits are finally catching up with me. I gained back the weight and now have a mommy belly to flatten out. It is quite humorous that I have finally grown out of the size 0s and 1s. Yes I owe it all to chocolate, yummy yummy chocolate :-p