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Holdfast said:
kimc said:
A gin and tonic.
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Clever girl! :)


I bought chocolate, eggs & sugar and made a classic chocolate mousse.

Hadn't made one before, but I'm trying to expand my cooking a bit and this was a very easy dessert to try. My God, i thought I'd died and gone to heaven. Soooo much better than shop-bought or even good restaurant mousse. I think because you can't feed people the raw eggs these days.

(125g-ish high-cocoa chocolate, melted in a bain-marie; then take off the heat and mix 5 egg yolks into it. Caster sugar, to taste - very little is actually needed. Fold in the egg whites, which have been whipped to soft peaks. Spoon into ramekins, refridgerate for a couple of hours. Eat. Collapse into ecstasy.)
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Sounds heavenly. I'm definately going to have to give that a try!
 
kimc said:
Holdfast said:
kimc said:
A gin and tonic.
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Clever girl! :)


I bought chocolate, eggs & sugar and made a classic chocolate mousse.

Hadn't made one before, but I'm trying to expand my cooking a bit and this was a very easy dessert to try. My God, i thought I'd died and gone to heaven. Soooo much better than shop-bought or even good restaurant mousse. I think because you can't feed people the raw eggs these days.

(125g-ish high-cocoa chocolate, melted in a bain-marie; then take off the heat and mix 5 egg yolks into it. Caster sugar, to taste - very little is actually needed. Fold in the egg whites, which have been whipped to soft peaks. Spoon into ramekins, refridgerate for a couple of hours. Eat. Collapse into ecstasy.)
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Sounds heavenly. I'm definately going to have to give that a try!
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I'm going to have to try this. I usually just get some heavy whipping cream and put it in a blender with either chocolate syrup or some Nutella. Usually gets the job done, but yours definitely sounds better!
 
I was pretty surprised at the recipe - I got the ingredients before I looked up the recipe, and actually bought double cream (whipping cream) too, fully expecting any chocolate mousse recipe would need it. But no, this traditional recipe doesn't need it at all (though you could whip some as a topping, if you wanted, I guess). The eggs are enough to get it to the right consistency and as long as the chocolate is high-cocoa & good quality, you don't even need much extra sweetness from the sugar.

It's probably much lower-calorie than the shop/restaurant versions, too, because of the lack of cream. Not that any chocolate mousse is going to be diet-friendly I suppose, but this one is closer than most.

Good luck if you try it, though thankfully for my cooking skills, it's relatively hard to get wrong. Clean, dry bowl for whisking the egg white and making sure to use a bain-marie for melting the choc are probably the only things to be careful of.
 
Mutarada said:
Fair point.

Still though, its difficult to sympathize when mommy and daddy are covering most of the bills.
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I didn't say I sympathized, only that DVDs are cheap now. If he'd bought thirty odd DVDs when I bought my first player I'd be with you on this one.

/mutters something about £19.99 for Scream 2... :klingon::wtf::scream:
 
Bought 2 pairs of shoes, a button-down shirt and a sweater.

Now I'm waiting for my cellphone to finally arrive - tomorrow!
 
Bought lots of random cookery-related things today... my mousse-making yesterday made me realise I somehow no longer have any ramekins, so I went to buy those. Then I figured I needed a new big wok and a big glass mixing bowl too. Don't quite know why, since I ended up just cooking a risotto for dinner in the end. :lol:

(again, sticking with a very classical risotto recipe; I'm trying to learn these things more systematically than usual at the moment, so I'm following traditional recipes for everything. Actually it came out very well - good creamy texture and the rice perfectly cooked. Just slightly saltier than I usually like things because I misjudged the amount of salt in the stock I used. Easy fix for next time...)

Anyway, I also had to buy a new bluetooth headset because the earloop on the old one broke. Of course, modern technology being what it is, it was impossible to buy a replacement earloop that fitted it (likely cost: 50p, tops) and instead I had to buy a whole new headset (cost: £20). Built-in obsolence, I'm sure. :D
 
Just came back from a sidewalk sale at the local mall...bought:

4 new halter-style tanks (yellow backless, pink with glitter trim, pink pinstripes and pink with green trim)
1 t-shirt (polo style, pink and grey stripes)
A strapless bra (to wear with halters)
X-Files seasons 7-9 :techman:
 
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^I don't know how girls can wear those boyshort panties. Maybe it's just me and my bubble-butt, but aren't they terribly uncomfortable? Every time I put on a pair they ride up within minutes, and now whenever I see them all I can think is, "That's a weggie waiting to happen."
 
I usually get hipsters, too, but I'm trying to "experiment" with other kinds, just to see if I like them.
 
This thread has taken an interesting turn into girls' undies. I should have bought a cold shower.

Instead, I just bought flowers and a few groceries...
 
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