A slow start to the day, and Emily, for the first time, made the coffee. But she used the wrong proportions and it was very weak and denied our usual caffeine dose, we both went crawling into the day like cave dwellers treat their reemergence to the surface. I took Ruby to the carnival (overheard heard to be 'the poorest carnival ever' by one father). It was a pretty small-potatoes affair, but for Ruby, who was recovering from a small bout of not feeling well the night before, it was just right. Because she wasn't feeling well, she skipped the normal temptations of popcorn, cookies and the like, and we focused on making bracelets, knocking over milk jugs and spinning wheels.Breakfast
1 slice balthazar bread
2.5 hard boiled eggs
coffee (weak)
Lunch
Sliced Breast of Turkey
Salad, Romaine, Cabbage, Feta, Balsamic
Snack
1 Very Large PInk Lady Apple
Dinner
Turkey Crumble
Lettuce Leaves
1 hand full of popcorn
1 pistachio that got loose as I was transferring it to another bag
From www.slashfood.com
Guittard takes top honors in chocolate chip tasting
In advance of Valentine's Day the good folks at the San Diego Union Tribune's food section conducted a tasting of chocolate chips earlier this week. Not being much of a baker, I'd opt for champagne truffles as way to express affection through chocolate rather than chocolate chips.
But let's get back to the paper's survey. The eight panelists sampled the chips in cookies and out of hand, one of my favorite ways to, ahem, "test" chocolate chips.
The chocolatey morsels were evaluated for flavor, texture and performance in a cookie. And the winner for best performance in a cookie (and overall winner) was Guittard Real Semisweet Chocolate Chips. I've never heard of Guittard but a quick Google search revealed that the E. Guittard is a purveyor of some mighty fine sounding gourmet chocolate bars, including Venezuelan Sur de Lago.
The runner-up in the tasting was an old-school classic: Nestle Toll House Semisweet Chocolate Morsels.
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