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Feb. 14th, 2008 08:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
soc_puppetHAPPY DEEP DISCOUNT CHOCOLATE DAY EVE!!! ...Well, I could've gone with Singles Awareness Day, Heart Day, or the traditional Valentine's day, but I'd rather celebrate candy.
In the spirit of the day, I have managed to remember to give out at least one white chocolate heart lollipop thing, and let my brother have a good deal of the rest to hand out at Thursday Night Magic. (I totally flaked on actually handing out chocolate this year, guys.)
For anyone who cares about the Guess What My Icon Means Game, I may or may not have given you a huge hint somewhere in this entry.
And now, because I am in a surprisingly good mood (yay, not depressed! \o/) despite the library closing in less than half an hour, I'm doing one of those meme things ¦Db
Reply to this entry with two (or more) characters, and I will write you at least one sentence of fluff involving them. ...You can also request anti-fluff, or parody-fluff.
Edit: Forgot something! Chu, a Japanese kids book. No words, just one sound effect. Adorable ♥
In the spirit of the day, I have managed to remember to give out at least one white chocolate heart lollipop thing, and let my brother have a good deal of the rest to hand out at Thursday Night Magic. (I totally flaked on actually handing out chocolate this year, guys.)
For anyone who cares about the Guess What My Icon Means Game, I may or may not have given you a huge hint somewhere in this entry.
And now, because I am in a surprisingly good mood (yay, not depressed! \o/) despite the library closing in less than half an hour, I'm doing one of those meme things ¦Db
Reply to this entry with two (or more) characters, and I will write you at least one sentence of fluff involving them. ...You can also request anti-fluff, or parody-fluff.
Edit: Forgot something! Chu, a Japanese kids book. No words, just one sound effect. Adorable ♥
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Date: 2008-02-16 12:15 am (UTC)Yep :3b Whole right answer would include the fandom to which it is a reference, which makes it incredibly obscure. There is an alternate answer to both parts of the question, which is actually even more obscure than the first answer.
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Shin'ichi crinkled his nose at his father. "Why d'we hafta make chocolate for Ran an' Mom?"
"Because your mother and Ran-chan were very kind to us and gave us chocolate for Valentine's Day," Yuusaku replied, measuring chocolate chips into a double-boiler.
"But we don't have to give back chocolate until White Day!" his son protested.
Yuusaku regarded the boy. "Well no, but if we start now, we might just end up with something edible by then."
Shin'ichi ceded the point.
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^___^ ♥
Really? I thought it was one of those interpretation-y things. I'll have to go through and correct that later.
...In a little while? Maybe?
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So true. I was mostly thinking of 'cheap' in the 'deeply discounted' sense, though, so I think we're covered :3b
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Date: 2008-02-16 03:30 am (UTC)This one looks doable: http://forfood.rezimo.com/?p=393
Homemade Semi Sweet chocolate Chips:
Ingredients:
12 oz (340 grams) unsweetened chocolate
1 Tablespoon of Butter
12 Tablespoons of Fructose
1/4 Cup of Milk (preferably whole milk)
Directions:
Set-up a double-boiler (or make your own with 1 large pot, a strainer, and one small pot - see picture bellow) with water. Don’t fill up too much water, we don’t want any to splatter into the chocolate!
Set the double boiler on high heat. Add the butter and fructose and start melting it. Add the milk, and stir together until the butter has completely melted, then stir in your chocolate pieces. Once the water of the double boiler has started to boil, reduce the heat to low - or the chocolate will burn. Stir constantly until the chocolate has almost completely melted, then remove from heat and continue to stir until the chocolate has completely melted.
Pour into a mold. I used a silicon bread mold b/c it’s easiest to loosen the chocolate once it’s hardened. But, I’m sure you could use some sort of other plastic container.
The chocolate will re solidify with time…I was impatient and put mine in the freezer.
Once the chocolate is completely solid, press it out of the mold and chop it into chips on a chopping block with a large knife.
This makes enough for one chocolate chip cookie recipe.
(you could probably substitute splenda or something like that for fructose, if you can't find any fructose. From what I read, that might be a better idea. You might have to experiment a little to get the chocolate just right)
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SQUEEE! That's adorable! You use prompts so well.
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Date: 2008-02-16 08:44 pm (UTC)----
Thank you ^___^ (And here I thought I was just being lazy by defaulting to chocolate-making ♥)
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Date: 2008-02-16 10:22 pm (UTC)You're welcome! Good luck!