Chocolate Bread and Barbeque
It’s been a really great weekend, the weather was lovely and I managed to get quite a bit done in the vegetable patch. We also had the first barbeque of the year in the garden (including giant sirloin steaks from butchers extraordinaire … Orr’s of Holywood).
Unfortunately its Monday now and I’m back at work … the rest of the country it seems has today off as well but not me. The upside is as soon as I get home it will be barbeque time again.
So to the chocolate bread … not much to say about this really … apart from the fact that David Leibovitz is a genius! When I mentioned reading about this confection to Mrs W. she appeared somewhat keen to sample it. Not wanting to disappoint, I made this as the last act of a near perfect weekend. I didn’t deviate much from the recipe except to substitute the chopped nuts for home made praline.
I made the praline by scorching blanched hazelnuts and brown sugar in a non stick pan until caramelized (but not burned). The sticky nuts were left to cool on greaseproof paper and chopped roughly in the food processor. The resulting loaf has a deep chocolate flavour and firm texture … would be perfect with morning coffee.
Submitted to Yeastspotting.
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In: baking, desserts and puddings, recipes, treats and gifts, vegetarian · Tagged with: bread, chocolate, dessert
on May 29, 2010 at 3:04 pm
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Wow–the bread looks really tasty. What a great idea. Chocolate at breakfast always feels really luxurious, doesn’t it?
I came over to your blog after seeing a comment on London Eater–I met him at last year’s Food Blogger Connect conference and was really impressed by his photography advice. He inspired me to make a conscious effort to take better photos. As a result, I built a light box to help with my evening shooting. I cook mostly at night and I was finding that all my photos taken at night were useless. Making the light box was easy and has made a hugh difference. maybe it might help you out as well. (It’s a pretty good bridge to when I can afford to buy some really fancy lighting stuff!)
on June 21, 2010 at 9:53 am
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Great post on the light box… my wife is going to construct one for me
on August 30, 2011 at 4:03 am
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Yummm…chocolate bread and coffee for breakfast. Your recipe sounds delicious, if I could only get up the energy to bake one.
Your barbeque sounds like a good idea too. I am reading this at the end of summer, so I guess I will be planning my final cookout of the season. Maybe I will impress my friends with this bread.
on October 14, 2011 at 7:49 pm
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I’m into just about anything chocolate so this is definitely worth giving a try.
I agree that a cup of coffee would be in order with this delight.