Friday, May 2, 2008

ChocolateBet: May 2, 2008



Chocolate of the Day:

1 cookie + 1 strip
Arico Natural Foods Company & Brunckhorst's Boar's Head Brand
1 Chocolate Chunk Gluten Free Cookie + 1 strip Fully Cooked, Naturally Smoked, Gluten-free Bacon
Good - especially if you like sweet and salty flavors together; although it was a bit odd in spots - the flavors didn't quite mesh in every bite.
Wt: 1 cookie =~ 13 grams (4.76 oz. (135 g.) total bag) + 1 strip bacon =~4.6 grams (2.29 oz. (65 g.) total box)
Calories: 50 cals/cookie + ~23 calories for bacon strip
Cost: $3.39 (total bag of cookies) + $5.49 (total box of bacon)
Purchased from: Whole Foods, Cupertino, CA (cookies); and Piazza's Fine Foods, in Palo Alto, CA (bacon)

Welcome to the first day of Chocolate and Meat week on the blog. Yes, I readily admit this combination is just going to gross some people out. But, I'm determined to find a good match here if I can. There are more chocolate and meat items than you first might think. For example, chicken with mole sauce (which contains chocolate). I've been looking at different dishes with mole sauce. I've already tried a Vosges Mo's Bacon bar (which I liked), so it won't be on my list for this week. And there are cookies with meat...

OK, I haven't tried baking chocolate chip cookies with bacon from scratch (although you can see a link to a recipe on my links list), but I thought it might work just as well if I wrapped a strip of cooked bacon around a chocolate chip cookie. Did it work? Well, sort of. Now, I'll have to try some kind of similar home-baked version (with the bacon chopped up and baked up more completely with a cookie or cake batter or some sort) as a control group later this week, if I have time.
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