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Recipe: Sinful Chocolate Mousse |
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Key Ingredients Eggs: between 5 and 9, as many as you dare!Mix of very dark, plain and milk chocolate: about a block of each. Cream: around 500ml—NOYNOY all purpose, in 250 ml cartons is good. Sugar Pinch of salt Cointreau |
Method Melt the chocolate in a bain marie, or a basin placed over a pan of hot water. Separate the eggs. Add a little sugar to the egg yolks, and whisk until light and fluffy. Combine the chocolate with the egg yolk, and add some Cointreau. Whip the cream, then spoon in to the mix. Add a pinch of salt to the egg whites then whisk until they form stiff peaks. Fold the egg whites in. Pour the mousse into glasses, and put into the fridge to set. Perfect for a romantic splurge! |
Rethymnon Shopping Tip LIDL currently has a great selection of
really good dark chocolate. The one we like best is the
Ecuadorian 70% cocoa, but you might also want to try the Fin Carré Chocolat Noir Superieur |
Buying Toys in Rethymnon: Child’s Play? |
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Huge thanks to Cath for this one! Buying toys for children of relatives and friends is tricky at the best of times—and long distance , this provides members of the Coffee Morning Bugle Crew with some additional challenges. Firstly, there is the problem of coming up with an original gift idea for a child who may be thousands of miles away. Then, just when you think you’ve cracked that one, there is the question of availability—can it be found in Rethymnon? Even worse, as one intrepid shopper will tell you, is working out how to describe your chosen toy in Greek, given that there may be no literal translation to be found in any dictionary. We can now tell you that according to one of the retailers here, the Greek for “Jack-in-the-box” is, er, “Jack-in-the-box”. Or would be, except they don’t actually exist as a concept here. So, if all else fails, it may be best to play safe and stick with Lego. |
Cocktail of the Month: Stan’s Bloody Mary |
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 Our Stan at work |
Ingredients: Vodka, Tomato Juice, Lea and Perrins, Tabasco, Dry Sherry, Salt, Pepper, Lime, Celery. Mix the appropriate amounts of vodka and tomato juice. Spice up to taste with seasonings. Add a splash of dry sherry. Stir. Garnish with a stick of celery and a wedge of lime. And, yes, as a hangover cure, it works. |
Initiative Test
Buying all the ingredients in Rethymnon |
Mrs Beeton Grouupies |
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