Peanut Butter Chocolate Mousse Step one: Create feuilletine layer Ingredients 5 ounces milk chocolate 8 ounces creamy peanut butter 4 ounces feuilletine (oven-crisped crepes) Directions In the large pot, heat water until boiling. Place chocolate and peanut butter into a smaller pot, then place it on top of the large pot using the boiling water as a heat … [Read more...]
A Brief History of Valentine’s Day
Valentine’s Day is a strange holiday: a feast of love, built on the feast day of a martyr, in the dead of winter. Weird. And deeply suspicious. Turns out that while chocolate, roses, diamonds and dinner are lovely gifts, we focus our love of red hearts and presents on Feb. 14 as a result of an odd combination of mythology and marketing. Mythologically speaking, we … [Read more...]