At the last visit to that lovely chocolate shop I bought some drops which she suggested would do very good base for cooking with. I finally received the recipe from Sheila for the chocolate mousse, but it called for 70% chocolate and the drops turned out to contain only 53% cocoa mass, so I decided to postpone the mousse. The next plan was to crack some more walnuts and melt down the drops to coat them in chocolate. I did these today and Roy says they taste lovely. I have so far been a very good girl and restricted myself to a lick my fingers which got rather covered in chocolate and I licked the bowl clean too.
The sun shone today beautifully so we inspected the garden to see if we needed to harvest anything. I hoped to make another rhubarb crumble and put the rest into bottles with my special sugar, but then we realised that we only have a small amount of my sugar out here, so we put that off for a while as well. In fact, Roy recalled also that I promised a rhubarb crumble to some of my visitors last month and as we are going to spend a weekend with them on 23rd/24th I will make it just before that and take it.
So we turned our attention to our marvellous crop of mint, which needed to be turned into mint sauce. It was a lot of work, but as you can see in the photo, we ended up with three jars of the stuff. The other two jars in the picture are the chocolate coated walnut pieces.
We are off to BP tomorrow as I am going to the theatre in the evening. Shame to have to go as the weather has been fantastic this week, but when you have a ticket you have a ticket.
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