Every Year we execute (or attempt to execute) the perfect cup of Hot Chocolate. One fateful day 8 or so years ago - Matt achieved the perfect cup, and every year since we attempt to create it again. Usually we achieve it - and we've learned that perfection can take many forms. This year we reached bliss, thanks to Ginger's genius.
The chocolate tastes better in Alessi cups.
Matt, Ginger, and Doris all came up with their own flavor profiles. Matt's was a strawberry orange, as is pictured above.
We paired the perfect cup with a fabulous meal a la Matt.
The Fall salad kicked things off right with caramelized onions, grilled peppers, tomato, apple, arugala, goat cheese, and a maple dressing.
The scallops (in a garlic sage sauce) were accompanied by bacon, butternut squash, caramelized onion risotto served in a baked pumpkin.
The base of the hot chocolate was not a powder - how else can you achieve the perfect cup but with Lindt chocolate and cream? come on.
Ginger in all her brilliance decided bananas foster Hot Chocolate was the way to go. So she made bananas foster and pureed it - then added it to the chocolate cup. Doris' was fabulous too - she did a very Fall spice blend, and definitely took second place by a hair.
Just a hot chocolate shot really... due to the richness. But it was definitely FABULOUS!
Also this Halloween season, Matt and I made some chocolate crusted, orange grand marnier cream tarts, with chocolate spiders and chocolate spider webs.
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