Food Coloring--A Word to the Wise

A little goes a long way.  Proceed with caution--it is easier to add color than to remove it, as my sickly-looking cookies bear witness.

Morsels of Chocolate is 2!

I missed posting our anniversary, but this blog is officially two years old!  Thank you to our faithful readers who have followed us this long!

This is very handy!

I will want to keep this link in my favorites.  :)

Lessons learned

Lesson #1: Bad smoothies


Bad smoothie #1: Frozen banana and lemon yogurt.  Something about the lemon-banana combination is terrible. (Might be better if another flavor is added.)


Bad smoothie #2: Pureed cantaloupe and plain yogurt.  Which leads me to Lesson #2:


Lesson #2: Pureed cantaloupe should be avoided at all costs.  It resembles applesauce in consistency; but unlike applesauce, it tastes horrible!  (And I love ordinary cantaloupe.)

Your Recipes

Hello MC readers! As you can tell, K and H are terrible bloggers, averaging at best, 2 or 3 recipes per month. But maybe you have a favorite recipe that you would love to see featured. If you do, email it to us at morselsofchocolate(at)gmail(dot)com. If we approve of it, we will post it and give you the full credit for the recipe. Looking forward to finding recipes in our inbox! =)

Note: all submissions will be subject to grammatical and technical editing. Submitting a recipe does not guarantee that it will appear on this blog. Multiple submissions will not disqualify the submitter from recognition. We will not share your email address with anyone. Morsels of Chocolate reserves the right to test submitted recipes before posting them.

New cook books

My parents gave me this book for Christmas. When it came out a year ago, I wanted to buy it. But I didn't; and after several months, I forgot about it. Until I opened the package, and there it was! How cool is that?

Additionally, my sister R and her husband gave me this book. Do you know what that means? I had better get cooking!

May your days be merry and bright, and may all your Christmas cookies bring delight!

Thanksgiving Dinner

What is your favorite part of Thanksgiving dinner? Please scroll to the bottom of this blog and answer the poll! If I didn't list your favorite part, leave a comment on this post. Thank you, and come again!

Happy birthday, MC!

As of tomorrow, Morsels of Chocolate will be one year old! As we reach this milestone, I must confess a discovery: I do not try new recipes as much as I used to think I did. I thought this blog would be bursting with new recipes every week; but the fact is that I use the same old favorite recipes time and again. When a new recipe is tried, I might like it; but it will probably fall back into obscurity until I have a taste for something different again. As my family knows, the desserts I make the most are variations on the brownies theme. So as MC enters another year, I can't promise more recipes than before. I can only say that I, and K with me, hope you will keep checking back for more--because new recipes will get posted eventually!

Here are some random MC statistics:

*There are two contributors, although one of them rarely posts anything. ;)

*We have seven followers! Although I suspect that in reality, we have only two. At least, we have only two who leave comments. Thank you, Preciosa and Angela, and keep the comments coming!

*There have been around 60 posts, although not all of them are recipes.

*Main dish recipes are rare around here; mostly we post desserts. (But what did you expect, considering our name?)

Because of Jesus Christ,
H

The best way to eat a chocolate bar

I have discovered the best way to eat a chocolate candy bar! Even though it was milk chocolate and not dark, it was delicious. So here is my formula, in three easy steps:

1) Place candy bar in a cooler in the trunk of your car, convincing yourself that even though it is mid-June, the cooler will keep it from melting. (This can also be done in July or August.)

2) Forget about it for 3-4 days.

3) Re-discover your chocolate and savor the melty goodness. It tasted like fudge! =)

On the other hand, there is no wrong way to eat chocolate--except, perhaps, with raspberries.

Grandma's cookin'

I just don't get it. She does everything wrong, according to the "experts." She doesn't measure everything carefully. She doesn't follow recipes precisely. Yet, my Grandma's pizza is the stuff of legends. If food could be divine, her rolls would be. Her fudge is a definition. Grandma's cooking is proof that a grandmother's touch is more important than all the rules in the books.
And so, my fellow novices, there is hope for you and me: when we are grandmothers, perhaps our food will be legendary as well.

Hmmm....

...What happened to K? Truth is, I'm wondering that myself. Did you fall off the face of the Internet, my friend?

1930's Recipes

My Grandma handed me a cookbook this weekend. It was compiled by the uncle of a distant relative. In the front of the cookbook is some history about threshing and the days when farmers depended upon their neighbors to help with their harvest. It also talks about the food women cooked for their threshing neighbors. The recipes are from his grandmother, mother, and aunts.

There is just something about family recipes that excites me. Even though it's not my family--I'm looking forward to trying some of these recipes! One thing I love about this cookbook: since the recipes are from the 1930's and earlier, this is real cooking. No boxed mixes involved. It has the feel of a pioneer cookbook or something!

After I use some of these recipes, they may appear here. Two of the things that sound yummy are Apple Upside-Down Cake, and Blueberry Dumplings. It's going to be fun!

Rosemary

I've discovered a new favorite spice: rosemary! It compliments chicken wonderfully! Thank you, Aunt S, for 'planting' the idea in my head. ;)

Fall Favorites

It's time to see if our followers really follow this blog. =)

Question time: What is your favorite fall food? Please post a recipe for it in your comment.

Some of my fall favorites include:
Apple Crisp (already posted)
Sweet Potato Casserole (I don't have a recipe for it. I just love to eat it.)
Pumpkin Pie (recipe might follow some day)
Pumkin Bars with Cream Cheese Frosting
Potato Cheese Soup (the recipe is sure to end up on here someday)

What's in a name?

As oatmeal-chocolate chip cookies cool in the kitchen, we are setting up our delicious blog. How did we decide upon "Morsels of Chocolate?"

From the time we first discussed creating this blog, we have tossed around various ideas for a name. We had thought about using a portion of a Bible verse, but the one we thought of had already been taken. We thought about combining our names, but it sounded too boring. Since one of us speaks French and the other a little Spanish, we thought about finding a food word that was the same in both languages. But the Internet yielded no results.

Now, together again for the first time in two months, we were determined to finally create our blog. Seated in the kitchen (where else?) baking the aforementioned cookies, we hit upon the word "Morsels" followed immediately, of course, by the notion of "Chocolate!"

And thus, our blog was born.