Melting Pot for Valentines Day

I just wanted to share a great chocolate experience once again-at the Melting Pot Fondue Restaurant. We had their Valentines Day five course meal and it was so scrumptuous! I started off with an excellent chocolate martini that was rimmed with dense chocolate before the affair began then off the the meal-
1st course: shrimp cocktail with a very spicy angry cocktail
2nd course: tomato basil cheddar cheese fondue
3rd course: chopped caesar salad
4th course: lobster indulgence
5th course: banana fosters white chocolate fondue

Let me tell you about the white chocolate fondue- it was served with vanilla marshmellows rolled in graham cracker crumbs and with chocolate marshmellows rolled in oreo crumbs! ECTASY! It was heavenly everyone! Try it out next year!

www.meltingpot.com

We love the Barefoot Contessa at Chicks Love Chocolate

Ina Garten has one of the best brownie mixes out there that has double the chocolate! Here at Chicks Love Chocolate we are always after good quality and rich chocolate taste! These brownies by the Barefoot Contessa are both! Try the mix (called the Outrageous Brownie Mix) and we melted the chocolate using the microwave method. Use the defrost setting and do it at 30 second intervals. We love how these came out, rich and scrumptuous brownies that everyone will love! They went like wild-fire at the SuperBowl Party!
They are available at the following online stores:

www.stonewallkitchen.com
www.surlatable.com
www.crateandbarrel.com

How is chocolate good for you?

Dr. Mike Roizen, Oprah’s favorite doctor recommends our favorite substance, chocolate for your health! He says that the “flavonoids in cocoa are one of the few saturated fats that the body turns into healthy unsaturated ones”! Wow! The body likes chocolate so much, it makes it into something it likes better! Chocolate rocks!

www.oprah.com/health/soh/200702/soh_200702_heart14_114.jhtml

Chocoholic recipes in this month’s Oprah Magazine! You’ll think you went to Chocolate Heaven!

Oprah is a long time chocolate fan (ever since hitting menopause she has been known to say). I love her recipes this month! These are some great ideas for your sweetheart (or to treat yourself) during the wonderful chocolate season of Valentines Day! Pick up the February 2007 issue and find recipes for:
Nibby Napoleons with Chocolate Sauce
Spice-Dusted Brownies ( I can’t wait to try that one out!)
Three Layer Chocolate Cake with Blackout Filling

You’ll just double over in ectasy with these recipes!
Enjoy!

www.oprah.com

Prescription Chocolate?

Maybe this is our answer to happiness in a pill but it is in the form of chocolate! There really is something new out that I came across in a few of the female magazines- “The Doctor’s Chocolate”. Dr. Keith Scott-Mumby, MD, PhD states that his chocolates are clinically proven to “reduce daily stress and tension, while improving your mental clarity and focus”. Well doc, we don’t need you to tell us that! We chocolate lovers have known this all along! What I would like to see is some data on chocolate lovers vs nonchocolate lovers and compare qualities of life! But, thanks for the medical advice and we give Dr. Keith an “A” for promoting the health benefits of chocolate. Unfortunatly, this chocolate product states it is all natural but the ingredient list is full of stuff that I can’t pronounce.
Now can you find a chocolate especially designed for all those women with fibromyalgia? They need some help!

www.TheDoctorsChocolate.net

Maxine from Hallmark! She’s crabby but she loves chocolate!

We love Maxine, the crabby character from Hallmark. She’s a chocolate lover and we found this saying from her that sums up her love of chocolate!

MAXINE’S LIVING WILL: (sorry, picture not available)

I, MAXINE , being of sound mind and body, do not wish to be kept alive indefinitely by artificial means. Under no circumstances should my fate be put in the hands of pinhead politicians who couldn’t pass ninth-grade biology if their lives depended on it, or lawyers / doctors interested in simply running up the bills. If a reasonable amount of time passes and I fail to ask for at least one of the following:
Glass of wine
chocolate
Margarita
chocolate
Martini
Cold Beer
chocolate
Chicken fried steak
cream gravy
chocolate
Mexican food
chocolate
French fries
chocolate
Pizza
chocolate
ice cream
Chocolate
cup of coffee
chocolate
Sex
Chocolate
It should be presumed that I won’t ever get better. When such a determination is reached, I hereby instruct my appointed person and attending physicians to pull the plug, reel in the tubes and call it a day.

funny lady!
Melanie

“Covered in Chocolate” coming on the Food Network-Attention all Chocoholics!

I just wanted to let everyone know at 8eastern time and 7Central PM all next week would be the Food Network’s series “Covered in Chocolate”! Don’t miss Emeril, Paula Deen, Rachel Ray, Giada from Everyday Italian, and the rest of the Celebrity Chefs cookin up some great chocolate treats! I can’t wait!
www.foodnetwork.com

thanks Melanie

The Chocolate “Affair”

I recently entered a writing contest where you could, in 150 words or less, write about chocolate and either an event related to it or some feeling you get when eating chocolate. I described my intimate relationship with this wonderful substance that stems from childhood. When I was around 7 years old, a cute yet puggy, little Italian girl living in Connecticut, I used to sneak chocolate whenever available. I was totally IN LOVE with the stuff! I would put it down my shirt and hoard it in my closet. My fave was the All-American, Hershey of course. As I have gotten older, finished multiple degrees and learned a lot more about this unique substance, my appreciation has only deepened, and my love for it only gotten stronger. Now it is like sneaking away with a romantic partner when I am contemplating indulging with my 70% dark. I just hope the affair never ends. I am sure it will last since this is one affair that my husband won’t get upset about if he finds out! I didn’t win the writing contest, by the way, but I great fun writing the entry! Comment on your relationship with chocolate, if you can put it in words!

Chocolatini’s for all! Happy Valentines’ Day!

We’re getting close to our favorite holiday at Chicks Love Chocolate, Valentines’ Day! Have fun with it and make some new martini recipes using our favorite ingredient, chocolate! There is this site called martiniart full of great ideas for chocolatini’s. They have recipes for Lady Godiva chocolate martini, chocolate orange martini, white blizzard martini, mint patty martini, funky monkey chocolate banana martini, and out in the milky way martini! Take a look and here’s the link:
www.martiniart.com/index.asp?PageAction=Custom&ID=34