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White Velvet Chocolate Mousse

White Velvet Chocolate Mousse

(add thinly sliced strawberries for garnishing 'hearts')

Serves: 6-8

Created by The MDM Team, Sunday, December 30, 2007
Creamy, dreamy and oh so sweet. That's the best way to describe this out-of-the world dessert experience. Garnish with raspberries or strawberries for an even better punch and to match Valentine's Day colors - (you can also slice the strawberries thin and they will resemble hearts!).

Ingredients
8 oz. imported white chocolate, chopped
1 3/4 cups whipping cream
4 tbsp. light corn syrup
3 oz. semisweet chocolate, chopped
Mint leaves

Methods/steps
Stir white chocolate, 1/4 cup cream and 2 tbsp. syrup in saucepan over very low heat until chocolate is melted and smooth. Pour into a bowl and allow cooling to lukewarm. Beat 3/4 cup cream with electric mixer to firm peaks. Fold cream into the white chocolate mixture in 2 batches. Divide mousse among 4 custard cups. Cover and refrigerate until firm, about 4 hours. Can be prepared up to 2 days ahead. 
Bring remaining 6 tbsp. cream and remaining 2 tbsp. corn syrup to simmer in heavy saucepan over high heat. Reduce heat to low, add semi-sweet chocolate and stir until melted and smooth. Cool to room temperature. Spoon enough sauce over each mousse to cover completely. 
Garnish with mint leaves, and with a dollop of chocolate whipped cream.

VALENTINE'S DAY will be here in one month, gentlemen (and ladies) :)

MEN (and women)... soon it will be Valentine's Day - you do NOT need to spend hundreds of dollars on each other! That is a waste of hard-earned money... trust me... just use your imagination... let me tell you how cool a HOMEMADE card is along with a homemade dinner or dessert... VERY! You know why? You had to put your feelings into it. Yes, we like chocolate, we like flowers, but most of all, we like YOU as a person, otherwise we wouldn't be with you. Do not waste a load of money on something that lasts one day! And hand-holding, a hug, a kiss on the forehead... oh my, I get weak in the knees thinking about it. Just love me, that's all I ask :)

(recipe for above dessert and more at: http://www.allyou.com/food/treats/simple-dessert-recipes-00411000071661/page19.html)

There are lots of desserts and recipes here on my blog, just use the years and links on the right to find something good

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BOOK REVIEW: "Finding the Grain", by Shulamit Hartal

#FindingTheGrain

#BlindChicken

This was not at all the story I was expecting - it was better!

It's about psychology, anxiety, worry, wonder, friendships, faith, and love.

Oh, and let's not forget hate. Hate is deeply rooted in one's psyche, sometimes so deeply hidden, we have no idea that the hate is what has made us the way we are.

Follow Chani as she goes through these ups and downs with her mother, and other people she encounters. She eventually finds out what has been driving her to be the person she is.

Buy it here:
http://www.amazon.com/Finding-Grain-Literary-Fiction-Novel-ebook/dp/B00OO59A6C/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top

Find out more here:

Book Description :

One day Chani Tavin, a sculptress in late middle age, has a fortunate accident when she literally trips over a pile of psychology books at the local recycling center. Despite hurting her foot in the fall, she is more fascinated than aggravated since it sparks off a vast change in her life. Oblivious to the pain, Chani takes the pile home, climbs into bed and plunges into them, applying the psychology she is learning to unravel the secrets of her own life. 

As Chani re-examines her life, she revisits her childhood. The emotional wasteland of the conditions in which she grew up and the terrors to which she was regularly subjected rise up to confront her: an unpredictable and tyrannical mother, her two defiant sisters who managed to do what she could not – break away -- and her absentee father. Chani starts to see her own life in perspective, and she has to learn how to embrace and forgive herself for feelings she still carries from when she was a very young child and one thread of the plot follows this journey of self-discovery. However, just when Chani achieves a startling insight in understanding her past, she dies unexpectedly the following day. 

The story is set in the frame of the 7- day period of mourning, the shiva, that follows Chani Tavin’s death and it encompasses including various dramatic and revealing conversations between the family of the narrator and her friends and neighbors. 

The heroine of Finding the Grain, a “blind chicken” who cannot forget her mother’s devastating pronouncement that she was so ugly it was “impossible to do anything with her” or, “Who would want you? Well, even a blind chicken finds the grain in the end,” – is herself no spring chicken. Chani Tavin is testimony to the fact that it is never too late to learn, even as the mother of grown up children and a teenage grandchild. 

(Updated 8-26) Update on Adelle Stanley, the grandmother in the Charleston car wreck

(she's a close, dear friend of mine which is why I keep sharing this)

She came closer to home from the hospital in Charleston SC to a nursing home in White Rock SC yesterday (08-25-14) to keep recuperating! She is a God-miracle! And we are so blessed to have her and her amazing family in our lives!
This is her, standing with help, at the hospital yesterday and they all prepared to come back 'home'. Patrice her daughter is hiding behind her father, Howard, Adelle's husband :) The others I believe are staff. (no, she's not winking, her eye is closed shut, I have not asked about it)

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http://www.gofundme.com/adellestanley (updated at site from her daughter)

This is Adelle and her husband Howard from a couple of years ago. Bria on the right is one of their grandchildren in the car with her when the accident happened. They were hit very hard on the side. Bria had 3 friends with her, one was killed instantly, the other 3 of them were in the hospital for a week or so. Hannah who passed away was given an amazing funeral here at our church a couple of weeks ago. There was such an outpouring of support for her family that there were no more parking spaces left, and we have a huge parking lot! Her older brother died 9 years previously, on the same date. Such an incredibly sad day for them all. We are in deep prayers for them and the two remaining children as they continue to live with that sorrow, BUT, they are Christians and have that special assurance of God's grace and love, so they will be able to endure and go on :) Hannah is hand-in-hand with Jesus checking out heaven and chatting with her brother, bless her soul :)