ChocolateBet: May 30, 2008

Chocolate of the Day:
1 piece
Oriol Balaguer
"Especias" - spiced hazelnut praline
Very Good
Wt: ~.5 oz.
Calories: ~ 80 cals.
Cost: $1.50
Purchased from: CocoaBella Chocolates, in San Francisco, CA

I love these innovative flavor combinations Oriol Balaguer has put together. His other chocolates I've tried had ingredients like tangerine pop rocks, or toasted corn nut pieces. This one was somewhat tame by comparison. There was a taste I couldn't identify in this one (olive?). I hope I'm able to travel to Barcelona one day and visit their shop in Spain.

ChocolateBet: May 29, 2008

Chocolate of the Day:
2 pieces
Russell Stover
(2 pieces from a Russell Stover "Nut, Chewy and Crisp Centers" assortment box)
1.) Roman Nougat (dark chocolate version) - Very Good
2.) Roman Nougat (milk chocolate version) - Good+
Wt: 32 grams for 2 pieces/24 oz. (1 lb. 8 oz.) or 680 grams in total box
Calories: 160 calories for 2 pcs.
Cost: $2.50* (sale)
Purchased from: Walgreens, in Palo Alto, CA

I'm working my way through this assortment box. There are only a few more to go.

ChocolateBet: May 28, 2008

Chocolate of the Day:
2 pieces
Russell Stover
1.) Molasses Chew (dark chocolate version) - Good + - Very Good
2.) Molasses Chew (milk chocolate version) - Good+
I liked being able to taste the molasses
Wt: 32 grams for 2 pcs./24 oz. (1 lb. 8 oz.) or 680 grams total box
Calories: 160 calories for 2 pieces
Cost: $2.50* (sale)
Purchased from: Walgreens, in Palo Alto, CA

ChocolateBet: May 27, 2008

Chocolate of the Day:
2 pieces
Russell Stover
1) Caramel (Dark Choc. version)
Very Good - I like the caramels better than the chews I think. Dark version is always nice.
2) Caramel (Milk Choc. version)
Good
(These were both from the "Nut, Chewy and Crisp Centers" assortment box I started eating last month.)
Wt: 32 grams for 2 pc. serving/24 oz. (1 lb. 8 oz.) or 680 grams for whole box
Calories: 160 calories for 2 pieces
Cost: $2.50* (sale)
Purchased from: Walgreens, in Palo Alto, CA

ChocolateBet: May 26, 2008

Chocolate of the Day:
1 piece
Russell Stover
Peanut Chew
(from a "Nut, Chewy and Crisp Centers" assortment box)
OK+ - Good
Wt: ~ 16 grams for 1 piece
Calories: 80 calories/pc.
Cost: $2.50* (sale)
Purchased from: Walgreens, in Palo Alto, CA

This week I'm focused on finishing up some chocolates in an assortment box that I opened last month. So, you'll see a few more Russell Stover entries, as I try to mow through the rest of the flavors in this box, so I can move on to a new chocolate adventure. This is the equivalent of having to eat your peas on your dinner plate before you can have dessert. No, wait, bad analogy. This whole chocolate eating thing is only about dessert! Oh well, the point is that starting something new is often more fun that finishing what you already started but may have gotten bored with already.

(*The asterisk means the "cost" of an item here has already been recorded in a previous entry, for a different chocolate item; usually this is an assortment box situation.)

ChocolateBet: May 25, 2008

Chocolate of the Day:

1/2 serving
Hachez
Cocoa D'Arriba - Erdbeer mit Pfeffer (Strawberry and Pepper)
77% cacao; "superior mild dark chocolate"
Good + - Very Good
Wt: 21 grams in 1/2 srvg. /3.5 oz. (100 grams) in total bar
Calories:
Cost: $0 (gift - thanks Alec!)
Purchased from: (Whole Foods?)

On this holiday Sunday, I thought to myself...Why not just have a whole breakfast with strawberry items? So, this morning I made, and sat down to enjoy, a bowl of freshly cut up fresh strawberries topped with strawberry yogurt, with some hot strawberry herb tea on the side. Oh yes, and not to forget....I also melted down a few squares of a (Hachez) strawberry and pepper flavored dark chocolate (77% cacao from Ecuador) bar -- which I ate with the fresh strawberries.

This was a great breakfast; although I think I got my urge for strawberries out of my system for awhile.

ChocolateBet: May 24, 2008

Chocolate of they Day:
2 pieces
Russell Stover
("Nut, Chewy and Crisp Centers" assortment box)
2 Cashew Cluster chocolates
Very Good
Wt: 32 grams for 2 pc. serving; 24 oz. (1 lb. 8 oz.)/680 grams total box
Calories: 160
Cost: $2.50* (recorded earlier for other chocolates in this box); sale price
Purchased from: Walgreens, Palo Alto, CA