Chocolate of the Day:
1 bar
Hebert's (fully loaded)
Dark Chocolate Turtle bar
("dark chocolate with pecan pralines & toffee")
Very Good?
Wt.: 2.75 oz. (78 grams)
Calories: 400 calories in total bar
$1.50 (sale price)
Purchased from: Walgreens, in Palo Alto, CA
Good; but I shouldn't have eaten so much. I hope this lack of time for real meals and vegetables won't catch up to me too soon.
Monday, November 19, 2007
Monday, November 5, 2007
ChocolateBet: November 5, 2007
Chocolate of the day:
Teuscher
1 piece - walnut marzipan
Very Good
Wt: ~ .4 oz.
Calories: ? (~70-80)
$ ? (per piece?)
This was part of a tiny hand-packed assortment box of 4-5 pieces
Purchased at Teuscher store in San Francisco, CA, near Union Square
Teuscher
1 piece - walnut marzipan
Very Good
Wt: ~ .4 oz.
Calories: ? (~70-80)
$ ? (per piece?)
This was part of a tiny hand-packed assortment box of 4-5 pieces
Purchased at Teuscher store in San Francisco, CA, near Union Square
ChocolateBet: November 4, 2007
Chocolate of the day:
Teuscher
1 piece - milk chocolate honeybee
(shaped like a bee; can taste honey it's made with - slightly crunchy (honeycomb?)
Good+ - Very Good
$ ? (per piece)
? oz./grams
? Calories
Bought at Teuscher store in San Francisco, near Union Square
This was part of a tiny hand-packed assortment box of 4-5 pieces.
Teuscher
1 piece - milk chocolate honeybee
(shaped like a bee; can taste honey it's made with - slightly crunchy (honeycomb?)
Good+ - Very Good
$ ? (per piece)
? oz./grams
? Calories
Bought at Teuscher store in San Francisco, near Union Square
This was part of a tiny hand-packed assortment box of 4-5 pieces.
ChocolateBet: November 3, 2007
Chocolate of the Day:
Recchiutis
1 piece
Cassis Strata (cassis fruit gelee layer, dark chocolate ganache)
Very Good, but I would like to have tasted fruit flavor even a bit more
~.4 oz./? grams
Calories: ?
$ ?
I bought this (and a few other pieces) at the Recchiuti chocolate shop in the Ferry Building in San Francisco. They have some very nice/interesting flavor combinations, but I would love to have some of these flavors come through a bit more than they do now. The flavors are not quite strong enough for me, although they're very nice, high-quality chocolates. (Recchiuti is a local San Francisco Bay Area business and, I was told, was founded by Michael and Jacky Recchiuti.)
Recchiutis
1 piece
Cassis Strata (cassis fruit gelee layer, dark chocolate ganache)
Very Good, but I would like to have tasted fruit flavor even a bit more
~.4 oz./? grams
Calories: ?
$ ?
I bought this (and a few other pieces) at the Recchiuti chocolate shop in the Ferry Building in San Francisco. They have some very nice/interesting flavor combinations, but I would love to have some of these flavors come through a bit more than they do now. The flavors are not quite strong enough for me, although they're very nice, high-quality chocolates. (Recchiuti is a local San Francisco Bay Area business and, I was told, was founded by Michael and Jacky Recchiuti.)
ChocolateBet: November 2, 2007
Chocolate of the Day:
1 piece
Recchiuti
Sur de Lago ("bitter" chocolate ganache topped with crushed Sur de Lago cacao nibs)
Very Good
Wt. ~ .4 oz.
Calories: ?
$ ?
Purchased from: Recchiuti, SF Ferry Building, in San Francisco, CA
1 piece
Recchiuti
Sur de Lago ("bitter" chocolate ganache topped with crushed Sur de Lago cacao nibs)
Very Good
Wt. ~ .4 oz.
Calories: ?
$ ?
Purchased from: Recchiuti, SF Ferry Building, in San Francisco, CA
ChocolateBet: November 1, 2007
Chocolate of the Day:
1 piece
Recchiuti
Burnt Caramel (burnt caramel and dark chocolate ganache)
Very Good
Wt. ~.4 oz.
Calories: ?
$ ?
Purchased from: Recchiuti, SF Ferry Building, in San Francisco, CA
1 piece
Recchiuti
Burnt Caramel (burnt caramel and dark chocolate ganache)
Very Good
Wt. ~.4 oz.
Calories: ?
$ ?
Purchased from: Recchiuti, SF Ferry Building, in San Francisco, CA
ChocolateBet: October 31, 2007
Chocolate of the day:
Recchiuti
Star Anise and Pink Peppercorn
Very Good
Weight: ~ .45 oz. (estim.)
Calories: 65? calories
Cost: $ ?
Bought at: Recchiuti, SF Ferry Building, San Francisco, CA
Recchiuti is a high-end supplier of carefully executed chocolate jewels that you can view at the company's attractive display case in the San Francisco Ferry Building. They're pricey, but good.
Trying today's Recchiuti chocolate with spices helped mask my frustration over not having more time to hunt down a more Halloween-specific chocolate to feature for today -- Halloween. One of the biggest chocolate holidays of the year.
I tried looking in Latino markets close to home for chocolate skulls or skull molds associated with El Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead, celebrated in Mexico), another late autumn holiday celebrated this week, but no luck.
Vosges chocolates' web site looked like they carried chocolate skulls, but I couldn't find them online (at least in time for this year). Next year!
Recchiuti
Star Anise and Pink Peppercorn
Very Good
Weight: ~ .45 oz. (estim.)
Calories: 65? calories
Cost: $ ?
Bought at: Recchiuti, SF Ferry Building, San Francisco, CA
Recchiuti is a high-end supplier of carefully executed chocolate jewels that you can view at the company's attractive display case in the San Francisco Ferry Building. They're pricey, but good.
Trying today's Recchiuti chocolate with spices helped mask my frustration over not having more time to hunt down a more Halloween-specific chocolate to feature for today -- Halloween. One of the biggest chocolate holidays of the year.
I tried looking in Latino markets close to home for chocolate skulls or skull molds associated with El Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead, celebrated in Mexico), another late autumn holiday celebrated this week, but no luck.
Vosges chocolates' web site looked like they carried chocolate skulls, but I couldn't find them online (at least in time for this year). Next year!
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