Mmmmm! The promise of extra rich milk enticed me to this bar, my first from Scharffen Berger Chocolate Maker, an American company founded in 1997 and acquired by Hershey’s in 2005. I found the chocolate to be quite simple, delicious yes, but I wouldn’t call it “extra rich”. It tastes about the same as grocery […]
Tasting Notes – Dolfin Chocolat au Lait au Hot Masala
I have seen the Dolfin chocolate bars in multiple chocolate specialty stores but it wasn’t until I visited Boston Cheese Cellar store that I picked one up at the recommendation of the owner/worker for “a good milk chocolate bar”.This one was for me. I found the chocolate to be nicely wrapped in a cute yet […]
Tasting Notes – Laughing Moon Dark Chocolate with Sea Salt & Black Pepper
I picked this bar up in Roslindale at the recommendation of the worker/owner of Boston Cheese Cellar for “a good dark chocolate to gift someone”. Laughing Moon Chocolates is based in Stowe, Vermont. It prides itself in using as many local products as possible (obviously not the cocoa). Their website states they have daily demonstrations […]
Tasting Notes – Golden Tree Chocolate
I cannot talk about chocolate without mentioning Ghanaian chocolate. As the #2 producer of cocoa in the world (#1 being Ivory Coast) it would not be too far-fetched to believe that a lot of chocolate out there originates from Ghanaian cocoa beans. But, there’s only one that is processed locally from the choicest premium Ghana […]
Tasting Notes – Chocolaterie Puyricard
When we were in France last September, my aunt took me to one of the Puyricard shops in Marseille. It was at the end of the two week European holiday and I had already sampled and bought chocolate in Germany and Belgium so I only selected a handful of chocolates, even though the shop had […]
Tasting Notes – Introduction
I am not at all a chocolate connoisseur but I am quite capable of having an intensely intimate experience with chocolate, milk (even confectionery) chocolate at that. Let me back up. I am one of those people who loves steak…just about well done (ok medium well) so I have experienced my fair share of disdain […]
Maggi Cube & the Ghanaian Kitchen
Once several years ago, my father made a remark that I never forgot. “Ghanaian women these days do not know how to cook, just Maggi cube here, Maggi cube there, stew and rice, rice and stew, and they call that food”. The statement was made around the time I was beginning to realise that the […]
Ghanaian Dining – “You are invited”
When I was in Ghana in 2007 doing a clinical rotation at Korle-Bu, I worked closely with one physician who when it was time for lunch, would take out whatever she had brought or had one of the janitors go out to buy, look at me somewhat meekly over the top of her meal and […]
Trader Joe’s Sea Salt Brownie Petites
Bites of heaven What was it that attracted me to this plastic container of sweet and salty yummy-ness at Trader Joe’s? I’m sure it was just that. The sea salt (French s’il vous plait). The delicate petite bites. The simple fact of it being a chocolate fudge brownie. And as in a trance into my […]
Confessions of a mango addict
Hello, I’m KChie, and I suffer from an incurable case of mango lust. After years of buying fresh mangoes in the supermarkets and ethnic stores in order to delight in that rare mango that actually tastes like a ripe juicy mango worthy of being called a mango, I’ve been driven to delighting in the dried […]
A lover of mangoes. A woman - smart, without pretense, lefthanded, Afropolitan - navigating this thing called life. An unapologetic believer in social justice and karma. Choosing to radiate positive energy and be true to myself. Here, my musings.