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i know you all missed me...
i missed you

but enuff of the emotional crap....
let's get to business!

So i got my yoga mat this weekend.
I plan on my first class tomorrow...soon i will be extraordinarly flexible and zen-like...
I was going to go the sunday class and got all ready
only to be foiled by my not reading the class schedule ....
it was at 4pm not 12pm like i thought
and that interupts my sunday naptime...duh

also this weekend i didn't eat as healthy as i was
i ate half a chocolate cake to lift my mood
after being "upset" over some things that i have little control over...
it was a good cake
i am not much of a comfort eater...an eater yes...
but i had a feeling that the cake would soothe my aggrieved soul
but as of this morning back to yogurt and fruit and stuff

Death By Chocolat Yield: 12 servings.

Ingredients

8 oz (225 g) dark semisweet chocolate (40-50% cocoa)
2/3 cup (140 g) butter
1 cup (210 g) sugar
4 eggs
4 heaped tablespoons (1 dl) all-purpose flour
4 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
1½ teaspoon baking powder or 1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
4 tablespoons sour cream

Ingredients for frosting

2/3 cup (1.6 dl) heavy cream or whipping cream
9 oz (260 g) semisweet chocolate (40-50% cocoa)

Method

1. Preheat oven to 350 deg F (Gas mark 4 or 180 deg C).
2. Line a circular 10 inch (25 cm) cake tin (3 inches tall) with greaseproof or other non-stick paper and grease the tin. (Please note that the cake will rise to 3 inches and collapse somewhat when cooled. If your cake tin is less than 10 inches wide and 3 inches tall we recommend that you use two cake tins.)
3. Break the chocolate into small pieces and melt it with butter over hot water.
4. Beat the eggs with sugar, mix with flour, cocoa powder, baking powder and vanilla extract.
5. Slowly fold in the melted butter and chocolate and the sour cream.
6. Bake at 350 degrees until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean, approximately 50 minutes.
7. Cool the cake. Remove the crusted surface on the top of the cake, and cut in half, horizontally.

Frosting

1. Heat 2/3 cup (1.6 dl) of heavy cream or whipping cream in a sauce pan.
2. Remove from heat, add 9 oz (260 g) of finely chopped dark semisweet chocolate, stir until smooth, and let it cool until in thickens.
3. Use one 1/3 of the frosting between the two layers, 1/3 on top, and the rest around the cake. Put the cake into the fridge for one hour or more to harden the frosting.
4. This cake should have room temperature when served.

Variations

1. You may add 3 tablespoons of rum to the chocolate and butter mixture.
2. You may use your preferred chocolate frosting, or the frostings described for Chocolate Tart or Devil's Food Cake.
3. You can add chopped walnuts and decorate with whole walnuts for a marvelous nutty treat!

[ Click here to print the recipe ]

(This recipe was developed by H. Gjerde for CacaoWeb. Copying or mirroring prohibited, see copyright notice.)

Have you got comments or suggested improvements for this recipe? Please let us know!

i watched the coolest show on PBS last night
no...not Masterpiece theatre's Bleak House with Gillian Anderson
who may I say looks lovely
and it makes me want to buy the book...the little that I saw
I liked Dickens Tale of Two Cities...not so much David Copperfield.

anyways the show was "tracking the Great White"
or something like that
The Monteray Bay Aquarium houses a great white shark in its tanks for i believe a little under a year...which is a remarkable feat because no other aquarium had been able to keep a Great White alive in captivity...most die from stress...

it was fascinating watching the progress the young shark, who I name Sheila the Shark,
grow in captivity and the issues facing the aquarium and how the had to deal with her natural insitct...
for the longest time they were able to feed her using a pole...
and may i say that Sheila is no cheap date...talking about wild restaurant quality fresh salmon people...
but as she got older she started taking chomps off of the smaller sharks, becoming more aggresive...
the coolest scene was showing the aquarist cleaning the windows of the exhibit, even behind the masks you could tell the divers were scared of the shark...
one cleaned the windows while the other stood guard watching Sheila, ready to bop her on the nose should she attack...
so cool

Eventually they had to release her back into the wild...
Oh i love aquariums...i think i foound this years big trip!

My dream job is to be an AQUARIST!...

one who maintains an aquarium.
www.wef.org/publicinfo/newsroom/wastewater_glossary.jhtml

.i want to be the person swimming with the fishies
hell i will even do windows!
but no penguins..their poop is gross...

other items-
Saw Midnight Cowboy this weekend... it was a'right...
Did you know it was rated X in 1969...later to be changed to an R rating...
it was the first X movie to win an oscar...
Jon Voight was good in it...hard to believe that he played the Pope....

I need a haircut, my bangs are too long
oh...and i am wearing blue socks today...that totally don't match my outfit...

I want to see Match Point....

How very interesting...PARADE magazine sucks....

BFF for LIFE Melissa had the worst weekend...her car was stolen from her parking spot in her apartment complex...luckily the the thieves realized that the car is more trouble than its worth and dumped it at a gas station around the corner...

that's all folks!
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