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Some recent chocolate adventures…

A batch of dark chocolate almond rochers – I tossed slivered almonds in Kirsch and icing sugar, toasted them until golden, and then dipped them in a tempered mix of dark Callebaut and Valrhona chocolate…

It doesn’t matter how many I make, they never seem to last more than a few days…

These music themed choccies were made for Chris’ birthday – they’re a 50/50 blend of Callebaut 811 (dark 54%) and 823 (milk)…

I’m always amazed that this particular chocolate mould exists – Big Boy plays the French Horn and Small Man the trumpet…

The leftover chocolate from the musical pieces went into a fruit and nut bark, filled with cranberries, ginger, candied peel and roasted skinned hazelnuts…

It makes a very nice after dinner nibble!

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In my kitchen…

…are chocolate elephants!  This latest batch of lollypops is made with a mix of Callebaut 811 (54% cacao), Sao Thome dark origin chocolate and a small handful of Callebaut 823 milk chocolate.  Pete loves it, and I’ve had to hide them to ensure there are some left for Small Girl

In my kitchen…

…is  a box of amazing rock sugar, a gift from our lovely friend Moo…

It’s amazing stuff, and resembles small shards of polished glass. I’ve scattered some over the top of an apple pie, and plan to coat shortbread cookies with them as well…

In my kitchen…

…is a jar of lampascioni (Italian wild onions).  I wrote about the paste a couple of years ago, but this is the first time I’ve seen the whole onions for sale…

They’re deliciously bitter, in a rocket kind of way…

In my kitchen…

…are five small tubs of homemade taramosalata, because Cindy and Nic mentioned it on their blogs, and I wasn’t able to get the thought out of my head until I made a batch.  I found some fabulous roe at a Greek deli in Marrickville on my last shopping expedition with the Spice Girl.

Our recipe is here and it uses potato instead of bread, so it’s gluten-free…

In my kitchen…

…I’ve been baking knotted rolls!  Using my latest bread formula, I shaped the proved dough into baguettes and let them rise a second time.  Just before baking, I tied the long rolls into knots.  It was easy and fun to do…

In my kitchen…

…are today’s eggs.  Bless those chooks of ours, they’ve laid consistently all through winter…

In my kitchen…

…because I’m suggestible, is a copy of The Geometry of Pasta, which both C and Tandy recommended to me after my pasta shapes post.  It’s an interesting read!

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Tell me, what’s happening in your kitchen this month?

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In my kitchen…

…are my first five tubs of homemade lip balm.  They’re made with cocoa butter, olive oil, beeswax and tinted with a tiny bit of lipstick.  The consistency isn’t quite right yet, so I’ll have to keep experimenting…

In my kitchen…

…are the nicest apples we’ve bought so far this season.  This 16kg box of huge Pink Ladies was only $20 at the markets from Maurice and Jody’s stall

In my kitchen…

…I’ve been playing with chocolate!  Below are pieces of milk feuilletine chocolate dipped in a 54% dark…

…and chunks of caramelised white chocolate dipped in a 70% dark…

In my kitchen…

…is a tin of plum mousse from Germany.  I actually had no idea what was in the sealed tin, which I bought on a whim, thinking it might be plum lollies of some sort…

Luckily, Pete really liked the plum mousse, which is more like a paste than a jam.  It should go well with cheese…

In my kitchen…

…is my first and last attempt at marron glacé.  A failed attempt at that, as we ended up with sweet chewy chestnuts rather than glacé fruit (although they didn’t taste too bad)…

But every cloud has a silver lining, and as a result of these, I discovered how easy it is to wrap small confections in muffin pan liners!  Far easier than cutting up squares of greaseproof paper…

In my kitchen…

…is Pete’s mum’s old cookbook, the Good Housekeeping’s Cookery Compendium (1959 ed).  Uncle Steve gave it to me as a gift…

It’s full of step-by-step instructions…

In my kitchen…

…is an old chip maker, which my mum found buried in the back of her pantry.  She’s never used it…

…and Pete’s not game to let me have a go either!  I’m forever cutting myself on graters, can you imagine what I’d do with exposed blades like these?

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Tell me, what’s happening in your kitchen this month?

If you’d like to do an In My Kitchen post on your own blog, please feel free  to use this format, and to leave a comment here linking back to your post.  We’d all love to see what’s happening in your kitchen every month too!

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