chalk it up to my latest cooking disaster.
i cannot melt chocolate. in the microwave. i have sunk to a new low in cooking.
one would think that my well-developed relationship with chocolate would allow something as simple as this to be accomplished without a struggle.
the little freakin' fondue pot requires you to melt the chocolate first and transfer it to the pot after it's throughly melted. (what is the purpose of the friggin pot then?) i know it is a lot to expect the power of a tealight to melt a pound of hershey bars, but c'mon i pictured liquid chocolate when i opened the box.
i realized this would not be the case when i pulled the bowl from the microwave and the chocolate had a smoking hotspot. i had killed another dessert. the chocolate tasted like a heath bar from the chewy bits that fused themselves together. still i hoped if i heated it again, they would melt themselves out of existence.
no, instead i created a chocolate chernobyl. it only made more of the clumps and the previous clumpy ones bigger.
as i transferred the steaming mess to the stupid fondue pot, i realized at least we had a bag of milanos, marshmallows, bananas and peanut butter-filled pretzels in front of us. no matter how nasty the chocolate was, we still had good stuff to gnosh on.
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Carleen, as always I'm loving your posts! I have an unrelated question, though, which I will post as a blog of my own if I don't hear from you: How did you get your archived posts to show up on your blog in the correct folders? I think you're the only person in the class who has either been able to or has bothered to activate the archiving. You can email me directly, if you want, at rcbonner@comcast.net. I appreciate it!
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