Monthly Archives: November 2006

WordPress

By Tien Chiu | Published: November 30, 2006
Just a quick note to say that, per Melanie’s suggestion, I’ve been looking into WordPress as software for my travel blog. WOW! WordPress is incredibly powerful and customizable – leaves Blogger in the dust. I’m thinking I may move my entire blog into WordPress. But, there’s a good couple days of customization before [...]
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truffle recipes

By Tien Chiu | Published: November 30, 2006
On recipes: I mostly improvise my truffle fillings, so I don’t have a specific recipe for the goat cheese and honey truffles. I think I added about two ounces of goat cheese to some warmed-up cream, to soften it, and then added a good-sized dollup of honey and mixed it all together. I added [...]
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Misc post-chocolate stuff

By Tien Chiu | Published: November 28, 2006
Well, I packed up and shipped out 23 boxes of chocolates today, to friends, family, and AIDS Lifecycle sponsors. The house is still festooned in chocolate, but I’ve been scrubbing away at it in spare moments, and it seems to be getting slowly cleaner. I’m still considering hiring a cleaner to help me tackle [...]
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Finished!!

By Tien Chiu | Published: November 25, 2006
And the total is… …drum roll please… 56.75 lbs of chocolates, fudges, toffee, caramels and what have you 3 kinds of truffles7 kinds of molded chocolates5 kinds of fudge6 kinds of chocolate covered fruit and nuts2 kinds of toffee chocolate covered caramels for a total of 23 kinds of bonbons, over a period of 3 weekends. (bows with [...]
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The finish line

By Tien Chiu | Published: November 25, 2006
I’ve piped the truffles and am preparing for the last batch of dipping. I have also made a batch of “proper” truffle truffles by putting about 3/4 oz of black Himalayan truffle into 120g cream and 140g of chocolate – overkill, but this particular truffle doesn’t seem to have a particularly strong fragrance (perhaps [...]
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