Can anyone explain this?

[Keroin]

Ha! I barely remember writing that.

Actually, I never get hangovers. Sometimes I'm still drunk when I wake up, but I can drink to the point of blacking out and not have a hangover in the morning. I'm sure this is how people become alcoholics, so I keep that in mind when I'm drinking.

I'm going to add your "no hangover" ability to the list of "Super Powers I Wish I Had". It will come somewhere after, "breathe underwater" but before "able to predict when phone call is from a telemarketer".

I posted while tipsy the other night and I think I offended Cutie Mouse. Must control urge to blab when inebriated.

 

[midwestyankee]

No meat involved. Here's a list of some common ingredients:

* 8 eggs
* 2 egg yolks
* 1 1/2 lb semi sweet chocolate (the best you can afford)
* 3/4 lb unsalted butter
* 6 egg whites

In a lifetime spent in the pursuit of chocolate perfection, the chocolate pate is it. I've never found a more enriching cocoa experience. Firmer than a mousse or pudding but not as firm as fudge, the pate fulfills not only taste expectations but textural ones as well. A raspberry coulis drizzled on top completes the experience. I've yet to find a dessert of its equal.

And, no, it is not slurpable.

Looks interesting. I know I'm not the only fan of chocolate around here (surely there must be one or two others ) so I wonder if you'd be so kind as to add the typical preparation steps to complete the recipe.

 

[Keroin]

I would have posted this sooner but I have a third draft, a looming deadline and two hundred words to cut. (My precious babies!) Egads.

Let me be perfectly straight with you, I can't...um...cook...at all. I'm hopeless. I burn water. Your best bet is to Google and experiment. But here's the recipe, in full, that I quoted from:

Ingredients

* 8 eggs
* 2 egg yolks
* 1 1/2 lb semi sweet chocolate (the best you can afford)
* 3/4 lb unsalted butter
* 6 egg whites
* well buttered (unsalted) loaf pan, OR round cake pan


Directions

1. oven 325F
2. Melt butter and chocolate in top of dbl boiler/ stirring occasionally
3. Whip 8eggs and 2 yolks til lemon yellow and fluffy. These steps should finish more or less at the same time
4. pour hot water from dbl boiler into bain marie
5. Whip 8 egg whites to stiff peaks
6. Gently fold egg mixture and meringue into Chocolate
7. Make sure the chocolate has cooled to luke warm so it doesn't curdle the eggs.
8. Pour into prepared pan and place pan into bain marie
9. Bake for 60 minutes at 325 turning 180 dgrees half way through cooking time. Be gentle when turning
10. Remove from oven and cool completely.
11. Although this is a simple recipe it has a few things that can cause problems. The biggest is breaking the chocolate/butter mix.
12. Make sure when dealing with melting the chocolate that not a drop of water gets into it..water will break the chocolate and you'll have to start over.
13. Make sure also that no oil or yolk gets into your egg whites as they won't come to stiff peaks if it does. And that your mixing bowls are dry and cool.



Oh, and from what I've read, the key to this dessert is the quality of the chocolate. But isn't that the key to every dessert? If it turns out, let me know...then mail me some!

Cheers,
K

 

[CutieMouse]

I'm going to add your "no hangover" ability to the list of "Super Powers I Wish I Had". It will come somewhere after, "breathe underwater" but before "able to predict when phone call is from a telemarketer".

I posted while tipsy the other night and I think I offended Cutie Mouse. Must control urge to blab when inebriated.

Wha?

Pish-posh. If you think you've offended, but don't know you've offended, you haven't offended. I'm just wound awfully dammed tight, and sometimes forget how it comes across to others... sorry for whatever it was I said.

While we're passing out super-powers, can I please have the "magically succeeds in relationships", "generates $$ at the snap of her fingers" and "whiny children are instantly covered in duct tape" powers, please? Thanks ever so...

 

[Etoile]

CM, I have such a crush on you.

 

[Keroin]

Wha?

Pish-posh. If you think you've offended, but don't know you've offended, you haven't offended. I'm just wound awfully dammed tight, and sometimes forget how it comes across to others... sorry for whatever it was I said.

While we're passing out super-powers, can I please have the "magically succeeds in relationships", "generates $$ at the snap of her fingers" and "whiny children are instantly covered in duct tape" powers, please? Thanks ever so...

Consider your super powers granted. I'll even supply the duct tape, (which could also be instrumental in successful relationships).

I've vowed not to drink and surf anymore. I offend at the best of times but turn into a Dorothy Parker/Sophie Tucker hybrid when I'm in my cups.Well, at least I believe I do at the time. A cretin with delusions of grandeur, would be more accurate. Glad to hear I didn't ruffle any feathers.