Christmas is here..

And so is chocolate.. Christmas means adventcalender, christmastrees, happy people, and a gigantic quantity of everything in the stores in a big part of the whole world.Almost everything is produced in a special christmas edition. Christmas is a lovely time, we spendt time with the people we love, family and friends, and we spend -a lot - time on eating. Eating has become a huge part of the Christians Celebration of Jesus in the late December. I know from my own family that Christmas eve isn't completed if we don't eat till it hurts.
''It's the most wonderful time of the year'', it certainly is, also for the chocolate lovers out there. Christmas contains a huge selection of extra good chocolate, almost every candy brand has their own Christmas edition, and since everyone want to joy each other, these ''special editions'' seems to be just a bit better than the rest of the year. I recommend to try brands such as lindt and Ghirardelli which is both really good chocolate brands, which does a little extra work up til Chrismas. DON'T FORGET HANDMADE CHOCOLATE IN THIS SEASON EITHER!

And now, get your but of the chair and get out there in the Chrismas magic and buy yourself the best of the best.

Chocolate fashion show

  Unbeliveable, but true. There is actually in this amazing world w elive in, a chocolate fashion show. I was shocked when I found out, so you better be too. How about a line of fashion made out of fashion? Who in this world would wear it and would you be naked half way through your day because you ate your dress? I would.

Salon du chocolat - french as it sounds is it. A fair trade for chocolate businesses all over the world was held for the 18th time. The exibihition is filled with bakers and chocolaiters from all over the world and is apperantly a really big thing. And in the middle of all this they put on a fashion show were the models wear chocolate. As crazy as it sounds as much do I want to watch it. Eat it..

Chocolate and your heart

A lot of articles in health magazines and advertising has published that chocolate should be healthy for your body - what a miracle. The dark chocolate is the healthiest chocolate, it is basicly because the dark chocolate consist of natural nutriens from the cocoa plant and a small amount of anything else. Scientists has recently figured that dark chocolate sctually can prevent the blood flow in our body and reducing our blood pressure. The high ammount of a specific type of antioxidants, which is plant based compounds - also found in red wine and green tea - is the key to heart health because these antioxidants - called flavanols stops the activity of unstable molecules which basicly do your cholesterol worse.
Simplified; chocolate gives a healthier flow to your blood which helps you to stay away from disease. No - of course you cannot avoid any heart disease because you eat dark chocolate, but it can certanly help you and your body to stay intact.

So get out there, find your favorite dark piece and be nice to yourself and have a bite or two every day.

Let them eat art

To strech it a little further now we are at the chocolate art.. An Argentinain artist Leandro Erlich made in 2009 for an art exhibition called ; Let Them Eat Art this chocolate ''leather couch''.
I found it really funny how The couch looks so exstremely real, they must had have people warning other people to not sit down..
Even the stitching, buttons and leather folds is out of chocolate, I would never had finished a work like that, both because of my lack of patience .. and my addiction to the chocolate I was supposed to do stuff with instead of eating it.

Another chocolate exhibition; girls eat the chess pieces.

Christmas Carolers, most detailed and biggest sculpture out of Chocolate I've ever seen, how amazing is that? Merry Christmas

Chocolate art

To be honest I randomly typed in ''chocolate art'' in google images, I were thinking about chocolate - SURPRISE - but what a killer in the middle of a loooong school day. I began to wunder if some people out there had challenged their creative skills with using chocolate. And yes, among the 7 billion people on this earth there is some who went all the way to ... Art with chocolate. Of couse we all know the beautiful eggs for easter, but I were thinking bigger;


Three big amazing sculptures of.. Chocolate

Awesome guitar player made by Japanese artist

And why not use chocolate as a paint? Take a look
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyfq-L21KnE&feature=related

Chocolate, chocolate, chocolate . . .

Chocolate goes with - I almost said it - everything.

Who doesn't like peppermint covered in chocolate, raisins covered in chocolate, nuts covered in chocolate, chocolate-chip pancakes, chocolate mousse, chocolate bars, nutella on your toasted bread, and not to forget fresh fruit dipped in chocolate - the best.

I found this website with the ''101 best chocolate recipes for chocolate lovers'', as it appears I'm a chocoholic, and do not understand people who isn't, but this page gets really creative with the chocolate, maybe a little to much after my taste, I don't know about ''cocoa and scrambled eggs'' ,  ''mixed greens, spiced pecans & Goat cheese with dark chocolate'' , ''fried duck with chocolate port reduction''  and ''chocolate levender tarts'' creative as I said, but give it a look there is ; fortunately, a lot more appealing recipies than repulsive..  
http://www.homemakers.com/blog/brightside/2011/04/21/the-101-best-chocolate-recipes-for-chocolate-lovers/

Chocolate by hand

..is simply the best chocolate you can get, then I don't care about Rittersport, Twix, Hersheys etc. I do hope that people out there had tried chocolate made by hand in some sort of way, whatever if you experienced in your own kitchen, went to rocky mountain chocolate or any local proffesionel chocolate shop - if not, you do not know what chocolate is. My self as a chocoholic have a hard time to ignore chocolate shops with handmade chocolate on the streets. Such an smell, so many different kinds, so beautiful in their small little white boxes - an addiction. The pictures is from a little Danish chocolate company, unfortunately the location is far awy from my home but my cusins always send it for christmas, and when I visit them my visit is not completed without kjaerstrup chocolate.

Why the cholcolate is attractive to women or the other way around..

99% of women loves chocolate!! Why is it so? 
Well yes, it tastes greeeat and nothing else can melt on your tongue and be as tastefull in the same time as chocolate can. I looked the question up and found some interesting facts;
First of all does women produce more fat-cells than men and women therefore attend to need more sugar and also; without that women knows it they regulate their hormones. Second does chocolate contains phenylethylamine which is a chemical that should be the exact same chemical that is released in our brain when we fall in love = it gives people a natural ''high'', and we feel extremely good it makes our mood changes, we fly and we dream. 
Actually...                                                                                
When womens eat chocolate it realease so many chemicals in the brain that it actually sometimes feels even as good or better to them to have sex..

Leave as a friend

So.. I haven't spend a lot of my time in Downtown, Fort Collins, YET.

But yesterday, I went out celebrating Friday night when I ended up in one of my -now newly experiented- favourite places in .. The World!  After a recommendation from a friend we went in to this little, yellowish lightening, warm-looking place; The Chocolate Cafe
A place where the speciality is Chocolate desserts -yeah someone really made every chocoholic's dream come true. The Menu card is 1/5 filled with small dinners, and then the rest is CHOCOLATE DESSERTS - everything from plain brownie served with ice-cream to black and white cheesecake to Chocolate creme brulee AND everything in between! What makes me even more possitive about this place; the first drink on the becerage-card is a big glass of milk - The drink from God - which seems to be the most perfect drink to chocolate. So now; If I have not make my point clear enough, then I think the pictures can tell..



Pssssst; not only is it a pleasure for your mouth, the atmosphere is fantastich with nice smoothcolors and absolutely perfect wall paintings. I looked up from one of the best desserts in my life and read on the wall;

May all enter as guests - and leave as friends

-No doubt, I gave a great tip and made it clear to the friendly waitress that I would be back.

A drink from God

.. What is your biggest thirst for, after a chocoholic-freak-out?

Orange juice wouldn't be a bad thing, neither would water.

But the most important and most perfect match will always be a big glass of ice-cool MILK !

I don't know about you, but I'm pretty sure that chocolate and milk are made for each other; most likely the Clicé of what were Lady without tramp, what were Chocolate without milk?
Myself included has a hard time eating a nice peace of chocolate (or four) if I can't get a nice cool glass of milk to let it down with.

Anyway, milk often makes my mornings or days, Milk is a gift from God, God created the Cow, and teh Cow givs us the Milk.

Be thankfull, drink a huge glass of milk and enjoy your day (and don't forget your daily dose of chocolate)

Enjoy, enjoy, enjoy

A favourite, a really dark piece or your second favourite...

ENJOY IT

Don't you just hate those people who can say ''no thank you'' to a piece of brownie chocolate when you you need it the most and it is right in front of you?.. Smells so good... Starring at you..
One part of you scream's; don't take it, you don't need it and you're strong enough to say NO.
The other part.. wins

Next time, ignore the ''say no part'', we have one life to live and that's the best excuse to enjoy and give yourself want YOU want.

Don't blame yourself a piece of chocolate, never!

Realationships to chocolate

Someone just can't stand it .. But the most of us just can't stay away from it

We wanna touch it, see it, smell it.... EAT it ... And then... Have some more
There's more flavours of chocolates than there is countries, and every person has their favourite;
Some of us just like everything with chocolate, but still we have an favourite, my own is definitely Marzipan covered with dark chocolate, what is yours?

Some would marry chocolate if they could and some says that chocolate is their best friend...
Well, marry it, hmm.. You can kiss it, smell it and it will always be there for you. But you can't argue chocolate or take it to bed, or wait.. You can argue with the chocolate devil who is sitting on your shoulder and screaming: MORE MORE MORE, and you can take it to your bet for the movie of tonight. But you can't give it a ring or a promise... And you would always have to stand up when you're already in bed to turn the light off, cause your partner can't..

But can chocolate be your best friend? Ooooh yes! Those grey mondays when you just don't feel to move, just don't feel to talk with anybody and just feel to chill out with your TV, blankets, your couch and your best friend... Mr. Chocolate! Those days is it loveable to have a friend who don't talk at all and don't comment on how you look, he is just there for you, to get you to feel a little bit better!

If you're monday is grey, less silly and more boring than this update, give yourself a great piece of chocolate and feel the magic,
have a good one