Thursday, September 20, 2007

ChocolateBet: January 9, 2007

Today I managed to eat half of a fairly large Ghirardelli Chocolate - Toffee Interlude (dark chocolate) bar. (3.5 oz./100g size). It was very good.

ChocolateBet: January 8, 2007

I bought some chocolates in a discount store in Half Moon Bay yesterday on my drive up the coast yesterday. I'm opening a box of Kirkland Signature Belgian Chocolates - which I'll likely be working on for a few days. Today's (two) chocolates were: dark chocolate with hazelnut and dark chocolate with coffee. They were very good.

ChocolateBet: January 7, 2007

Chocolate of the Day: 

Lake Champlain Chocolates
Dark Spicy Aztec bar
Very Good - Yum
Weight: 1.25 oz. (35 g.) in 1 bar
Calories: 200 calories in 1 bar
Cost: $2.49 for 1 bar
Purchased from: Z. Cioccolatos, San Francisco, CA

Today I tried a Dark Spicy Aztec all natural chocolate bar from Lake Champlain Chocolates (Burlington, VT). It was in the Very Good - Yum range. This bar contains pumpkin seeds, cayenne and cinnamon - a very nice blend of flavor and texture.

I also enjoyed a Sunday drive along the coast. I watched surfers in the Pacific Ocean near Half Moon Bay, and watched the sunset - with the sun becoming wobbly and distorted like molten orange glass before slipping down into the distant waves. There are no two sunsets that are the same. And even a "bad" sunset beats not seeing one at all...

And pretty much the same can be said for chocolates I've tried so far. Chocolate has even seeped into my social life, and I find myself sharing chocolates wherever I go.

Later in the evening, I left some Almond Roca candy for mom at her long-term care facility. She had asked my sister for some apparently when she was visiting earlier. By the time I got there she was asleep, so I left it on the table to for her. I'm sure she'll get other takers if she can't finish it.

ChocolateBet: January 6, 2007


Chocolate of the Day:

1 bar
Astor Chocolate
Kahlua And Cream Belgian Milk Chocolate bar
Weight: 2 oz. (57 grams) in 1 bar
Calories: 300 calories in 1 bar
Cost: $2.99 for 1 bar
Purchased from: Z. Cioccolatos, in San Francisco, CA

Today's chocolate was Astor Chocolate's Kahlua and Cream Belgian Milk Chocolate bar. It was good.

I ate this bar and enjoyed spending time with my daughter and family members, while visiting my mom in a long-term care facility. Mom is getting a few boxes of chocolate from visitors here, but she can't eat much. She is still very thin from prolonged hospital stay and illness. But a small bit of chocolate now and then seems to be a good thing.

ChocolateBet: January 5, 2007

Today, and this evening, was another day of beautiful winter light. I had a take-out dinner of wonderful lentil soup, at Cafe Divine in San Francisco, and enjoyed looking at some beautiful golden light coming through the windows while I was trying to write something. How beautiful the San Francisco skyline can look at night with simple, elegant shades of black and crystalline gold lights

In addition to watching for light and color, and visiting with friends and eating chocolate, humor is also a good weapon against gloomy winter months. Today I was able to mix chocolate and humor. I had a Bloomsberry & Co. "Magic Fairy Chocolate - Poof and it's all gone..." It was quite good for milk chocolate. The Bloomsberry packaging is great, and very funny.

ChocolateBet: January 4, 2007

Chocolate of the Day:

Target
Choxie
Coconut Almonds Truffle bar
Good
Weight: 2.5 oz. (70 g.) in 1 bar

Target department stores sell their own line of Choxie chocolate. Today I tried their 2.5 oz. (70 g) dark coconut almond truffle bar. It was good.

I tend to get the blahs and lose some energy in the winter months. I'm wondering whether eating chocolate every day will help. Hmmm. I wonder. In addition to today's chocolate, I will look for other bright spots. I enjoyed seeing some vivid gold and green leaves on the sidewalk at work while walking into the building in the morning. It's nice to see some spots of color in the gray months. There was also a nice silver/gold quality to the light on the freeways this morning. Winter light can be beautiful too.

ChocolateBet: January 3, 2007

Chocolate of the Day:

Lake Champlain Chocolates
Milk Sea Salt and Almonds bar
Very Good
Weight: 1.25 oz. (35 g.) in 1 bar
Calories: 200 calories in 1 bar
Cost: $2.49 for 1 bar
Purchased from: Z. Cioccolato's, in North Beach, San Francisco, CA

Today was the first day back at work after the holiday week break. Because the whole company got the week off, it meant less of a pile-up of "to do" items, and email messages that needed to be responded to, which was great. So, the basic/most important tasks got tackled, and I was able to leave for home in the evening without staying very late.

After work, I enjoyed today's organic chocolate bar from Lake Champlain Chocolates (Burlington, VT). I tried the company's Milk Sea Salt and Almonds bar, made with 38% cocoa content milk chocolate. 

ChocolateBet: January 2, 2007

Necco is a brand name that hearkens back to my childhood. There were Necco wafers - which I remember being packaged in a roll wrapped in slightly translucent paper, with the different flavored (including chocolate) brittle wafers sandwiched against each other. And there was (and is still if you can find it) the Necco Sky Bar.

The Sky Bar is a "4-in-1" combination candy bar. Chocolate squares contain different flavors. The peanut butter square was my favorite and received a Yum (highest rating), and the other three flavors were good. The whole bar is approx. 1.5 oz./42 g.

ChocolateBet: January 1, 2007

Took a nice New Year's day walk with a friend, occasionally stopping to sit down and soak up the sun. We watched dogs running like the wind across a vast expanse of grass at a local schoolyard. Later we had some smoked duck sausage and hot Earl Grey tea. Simple pleasures.

Today's chocolate is a Hagensborg Truffle Pig Orange bar - which was very nice. It was a very nice flavor combination, and well worth the ~ 290 calories in the 1.76 oz/50 g bar.

ChocolateBet: December 31, 2006

Chocolate of the Day:

Astor Chocolate
Malibu (bar)
Very Good
Weight: 2 oz. (57 g.) in 1 bar
Calories: 290 calories in 1 bar
Cost: $2.99 for 1 bar
Purchased from: Z. Cioccolato's, San Francisco, CA

Happy last day of 2006.

Today's chocolate was a Malibu Milk Chocolate bar with Malibu Caribbean Rum with Natural Coconut Flavor. It was very good.

This was later followed by a glass of chardonnay sparking grape juice and a piece of peanut brittle (which would be great covered in chocolate now that I think of it) -- to ring in the New Year.

Note: Photo added later, when camera available.

ChocolateBet: December 30, 2006

Chocolate of the Day:

Today was jam-packed with small wonderful adventures, including a trip up to San Francisco to give the book "The Tailor of Gloucester" by Beatrix Potter, to a local tailor who is sewing a coat for me. (I was originally attracted to the shop when I saw a cat playing with a string in the window.)

Today's chocolate: One Hagensborg Truffle Pig Peanut Butter bar was good-to-very good. It was well worth the 280 calories.

ChocolateBet: December 29, 2006

Chocolate of the Day:

(Made for Moose Creek Mercantile)
Chocolate Moose Bar
Good
Weight: 2.25 oz. / 4.5 oz. total bar
Calories: 330 calories (estimate) in 1/2 bar
Cost: $ N/A - gift
Purchased from: N/A gift

We visited mom briefly at the long-term care facility where she moved to. It's a somewhat depressing place, but it's good that she's well enough to leave the hospital at last.

I went out to dinner with my boyfriend. He brought a candy bar from his cousin, who has been doing research/studying up in the Montana/Wyoming area. This milk chocolate "Chocolate Moose Bar" with wild huckleberries was made for Moose Creek Mercantile (Missoula, MT). It was good; although for those planning on sharing their bar, splitting it into pieces can be messy due to the huckleberry truffle filling.

ChocolateBet: December 28, 2006

I enjoyed looking at the colored leaves clinging to the trees today -- clusters of tenacious little red and yellow gems, hanging on even after a big windstorm.

My daughter and I visited my mom in the hospital and found out she would be released soon to move into a long-term care facility. Good news. Break out the chocolate...

Chocolate for today: Ashmore's Strawberries in Milk Chocolate
It was good; I had part of a fairly large (3.52 oz/100g) bar.
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