Can We All Find our Soulmate Somewhere In Between Dodging Zombies at Halloween and Fruitcake at Christmas?

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JohnDB

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Good thinking. He can't talk if his mouth is full.
Like I told ALL my apprentices....if you are late to work you had better be bringing me a sausage biscuit. Otherwise you won't like the results.
 

Lanolin

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More fruitcake

I now have an apprentice. Shes willing to work for free for the experience and morning tea was put on, she was presented with a slice of fruitcake. She looked at me helplessly and so I relented and had half.

I have resolved to go dairy-free but it is especially hard at this time of year when everyone is bombarding me with milk chocolate. I checked the label and its all now made in Australia, or specifically, Tasmania. Sacrilege. Our own dairies cant even stock the local product.
 

JohnDB

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More fruitcake

I now have an apprentice. Shes willing to work for free for the experience and morning tea was put on, she was presented with a slice of fruitcake. She looked at me helplessly and so I relented and had half.

I have resolved to go dairy-free but it is especially hard at this time of year when everyone is bombarding me with milk chocolate. I checked the label and its all now made in Australia, or specifically, Tasmania. Sacrilege. Our own dairies cant even stock the local product.
Regular chocolate and not milk chocolate is dairy free....milk chocolate is not chocolate anyway....it's chocolate flavored milk taffy in truth.

So normal chocolate is just fine to be dairy free.
 

Lanolin

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Regular chocolate and not milk chocolate is dairy free....milk chocolate is not chocolate anyway....it's chocolate flavored milk taffy in truth.

So normal chocolate is just fine to be dairy free.
Nz is the land of milk and honey but mostly milk. It sent powdered milk to China, got contaminated and babies died.
Cadbury has now moved to Australia.

I cant stand white chocolate I dont understand how people can eat it.

There are dairies on every corner street of NZ but they may be slowly being replaced by...Starbucks. I hate starbucks lol Their milk froth makes people go weird.
 

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Nz is the land of milk and honey but mostly milk. It sent powdered milk to China, got contaminated and babies died.
Cadbury has now moved to Australia.

I cant stand white chocolate I dont understand how people can eat it.
White chocolate is not a favorite of mine either.
 

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Nz is the land of milk and honey but mostly milk. It sent powdered milk to China, got contaminated and babies died.
Cadbury has now moved to Australia.

I cant stand white chocolate I dont understand how people can eat it.
The same way you eat an elephant...one bite at a time.
 

Lanolin

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People dont give out elephants for Christmas. Its mostly milk chocolates.

Or, those Griffins box of biscuits or danish cookies in a tin. You are starving for real food at Christmas time and all people give you are chocolate biscuits. lol

Or ham. I think I would prefer an elephant, not to eat, but to keep as a pet.
 

JohnDB

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Apparently I have been scheduled to do a demo on how to make chocolate truffles for a group at my church soon.

This should be interesting....
But after I'm finished I doubt there will be any evidence that I was there. The audience will eat it all up.
 

Lynx

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Apparently I have been scheduled to do a demo on how to make chocolate truffles for a group at my church soon.

This should be interesting....
But after I'm finished I doubt there will be any evidence that I was there. The audience will eat it all up.
"How'd the presentation go?"

"They ate it up!"
 

JohnDB

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White chocolate is not a favorite of mine either.
There are varying grades of white chocolate...it depends upon how much cocoa butter it has within it and how it is flavored.
 

Lynx

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White chocolate is not a favorite of mine either.
Yeah, most white "chocolate" is just sugar and vegetable oils, maybe a bit of artificial flavoring.

There are some good white chocolates out there though. I recently found Moser Roth white chocolate with madagascar bean vanilla. Yum!

Check your local Aldi.

No I did not get paid by either Moser Roth or Aldi. I just like the taste.
 

Lanolin

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Is cocoa butter made from cocoa or is it just cocoa powder mixed with butter?

I dont know much about how to make chocolate. Its just there...or given. Nobody has ever said heres a chocolate plant/ cocoa bean make your own.

Apparently needs copious amounts of refined sugar as well get rid of the bitterness.

I would just chew some sugarcane or eat sweetcorn if I wanted something sweet. You got to a supermarket and but all their fruit is picked when it ISNT ripe, so its all sour. What a waste.
 

Lynx

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Is cocoa butter made from cocoa or is it just cocoa powder mixed with butter?
I have never before been tempted to use a sarcastic "let me Google that for you" link. I have never been that much of a jerk. But suddenly the temptation is so very strong...
 

JohnDB

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Is cocoa butter made from cocoa or is it just cocoa powder mixed with butter?

I dont know much about how to make chocolate. Its just there...or given. Nobody has ever said heres a chocolate plant/ cocoa bean make your own.

Apparently needs copious amounts of refined sugar as well get rid of the bitterness.

I would just chew some sugarcane or eat sweetcorn if I wanted something sweet. You got to a supermarket and but all their fruit is picked when it ISNT ripe, so its all sour. What a waste.
Cocoa Butter is the fat from the cocoa bean.
Usually white chocolate is flavored with vanilla