From Denny: This is a great little video chock full of useful information about how the decisions you make to get the most out of that chocolate benefit factor. She gives you percentages of chocolate to sugar for best antioxidant value and tells you how much (really how little) of a percentage of your favorite candy bar has of real chocolate. Also, beware of how chocolate is processed because you can completely lose your antioxidant value!
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09 July 2009
Video: All the Truth About Chocolate and Antioxidants
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30 April 2009
Appetizer Recipe: Chocolate Bruschetta
From Denny: Sometimes, you just don't want all the sugar interrupting the nirvana taste of your chocolate. Well, here is an interesting take on Italian "toast"! I'm used to having bruschetta with marinara sauce or olive tapenade.
The last thing I would have thought of would be to spread it with chocolate, cool! I have seen chef Giada on the Food Network spread her pizza bread with Nutello (hazelnut chocolate spread) that Europeans swoon over like we do peanut butter in America.
The restaurants in Atlanta, Georgia are leading the way with something unusual but very tasty for an appetizer - again. You can make it as a savory or as a sweet version, your choice! Mmmm... fresh and cooling mint...
I think the Great American Oracle (me) predicts this recipe will be adopted eagerly at our house for regular snacking! :)
Chocolate Bruschetta
From: Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Hands on time: 10 minutes
Total time: 15 minutes
Serves: 12
Ingredients:
12 ( 3/4-inch) slices baguette (about half a loaf)
1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil
8 ounces high-quality bittersweet chocolate, melted
1 tablespoon fleur de sel (or other coarse-grained sea salt)
Mint leaves for garnish
Instructions:
Brush bread with the olive oil. Toast on a grill or under a broiler until golden brown. Remove from heat and spread a generous amount of melted chocolate over each slice. Sprinkle with fleur de sel and garnish with a mint leaf.
Nutrition:
Per serving: 160 calories (percent of calories from fat, 60), 4 grams protein, 15 grams carbohydrates, 3 grams fiber, 12 grams fat (6 grams saturated), no cholesterol, 583 milligrams sodium.
And a couple of traditional bruschetta recipes:
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27 March 2009
Recipe: Chocolate Waffle Cookie
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From Denny: There are plenty of variations of this one. I like to use brown sugar instead of white sugar. In place of expensive and often too rich unsweetened chocolate squares I use cocoa.Forget about margarine as it ruins the taste of chocolate, in my not so humble opinion. You can get the no cholesterol benefits by taking a little extra time and clarifying your butter which I do all the time. The taste is awesome, especially when used in a baking recipe.
This recipe is fun just to cook it on a waffle iron! (Nonstick is preferred.)
Chocolate Waffle Cookie
Yield: about 3 dozen small cookies
Ingredients:
1/2 cup clarified butter
1 cup light or dark brown sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract (no cheating by using imitation!)
6 Tablespoons unsweetened Hershey's cocoa
1 cup all-purpose flour
Directions: In a large bowl, combine the butter and sugar. Add in the eggs and vanilla and beat. In a smaller bowl combine flour and cocoa. Add flour mixture to butter mixture.
Drop by large tablespoonfuls one-inch apart on a pre-heated waffle iron. Bake for one minute or so. Adjust your baking time as needed as you will have to test this.
Lift the cookie carefully from the waffle iron, easing it off with a fork. Lift gently as you remove it to a wire rack to cool.
To serve: dust lightly with powdered sugar!
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