Twin Palates: December 2013

Monday, December 16, 2013

Simple delicious chocolate sauce, sans chocolate!

I WAS BLOWN AWAY YESTERDAY WHEN AFTER DINNER, I TRIED SOME HOMEMADE salted caramel icecream, with a rich chocolate sauce topping. What was even more surprising was that it didn't have any chocolate!

It was a thick, rich chocolate sauce that reminded me of the sauce in a McDonalds chocolate sundae. After begging for the recipe, I was told it was a mix of lots of cocoa, butter, vanilla, sugar and water. Her grandma taught her that recipe, so I felt I was getting a secret family recipe, but she couldnt tell me the quantities, she just knew when to add more until the consistency was right. Googling this, I found this recipe, which appears similar. The beauty is you can keep mixing until you finally get the taste and consistency you want.

GIVE IT A TRY. I COULDN'T BELIEVE THERE WASN'T ANY MELTED chocolate or cream, which are the two main ingredients I use in my chocolate sauces.

Saturday, December 14, 2013

Can't get you out of my head - food musings...

Marseille, the home of the mighty bouillabaisse

"There is no love sincerer than the love of food"
- George Bernard Shaw

YOU KNOW THE FEELING YOU GET WHEN YOU KNOW YOU SHOULD DO
something, you even write it on your to-do list. But for one reason or another, every other task manages to leap frog it and it just never seems to make it on the top. It becomes a permanent resident, wooden spoon sitting at the bottom forever...

WELL, BABY STEPS I SAY. AFTER ALMOST 3 YEARS, TWIN PALATES ATTEMPTS to get back on the map. While we have been dormant online, offline we have been living the foodies dream. We just need to hire a blogger to dictate our thoughts and experiences. To those with established blogs - well done, we know first hand how much work it takes!

I'm not going to say this a comeback just yet. It's going to take some work, but just a sneak peak into what we've been up to in the last few months below. A separate post will give a sneak peak into the michelin stars, four of the worlds top ten restaurants, and the best food we've EVER EATEN! Stay tuned...