My evil genius

[darkemeralds]

I've made a terrible discovery.

If you put 100 grams of well-roasted hazelnuts and 150 grams of good quality milk chocolate into the high-powered blender you bought to make kale smoothies, and you run it for a minute or so, you get a hot hazelnutty chocolate liquidy gianduja nutella-stuff.

If you then pour this into little molds and stick it in the fridge, you get little melt-in-your-mouth chocolates.

Seriously. It offsets the kale smoothies amazingly.

Comments

[blueraccoon]

but why bother with the kale smoothies in the first place? Blergh.

[darkemeralds]

I've found that if I blend in some strawberries and half a banana, I can actually drink a day's allotment of green leafy vegetables in a few seconds first thing in the morning. Alas, chocolate just refuses to be a vegetable.

[blueraccoon]

I have heard - and I may be wrong on this - that juicing vegetables doesn't actually do you all that much good. You lose all the fiber that way, for example. It's still better than not eating them at all, but I was under the impression that eating them was the best way to get the benefits.

[darkemeralds]

I believe that's true, and my first foray into this field was a juicer--the device that grinds the fruits or vegetables fine, strains the liquid into the beaker, and flings all the rest into a hopper for disposal. I very quickly realized that that wasn't the way to go. At a minimum, there was just too much waste.

The new device is more like a blender. The whole fruits and vegetables go in (plus maybe a little water), they are liquefied, and you drink them--no waste. This method does substitute for chewing, but otherwise, it is eating the vegetables. Only, you know, drinking them.

[bluemeridian]

Terrible? Or terribly brilliant?? :P

(You'll use this power for good not evil, right?)

[darkemeralds]

I'm not sure. I mean, if I make another batch and post the recipe and pictures, is that good, or evil?