Chocolate Week!

Well this is late...here is my post for chocolate week. So far probably my favorite week. Chocolate is really hard to deal with because you have to temper it properly or else it will come out dull or grainy or worse...taste bad O_O

So first up we made vervine and raspberry gel chocolate. We took a layer of raspberry gel that we made, not jelly like you put on your toast but a firm jelly.

Yumm! Then we topped it with a white chocolate vervine cream mixture to make a soft center.

After it cooled and we sprayed it with dark chocolate...

...We sliced them...

...Into gorgeous little rectangles. Then left them to cool.

Next we took the hardened mixture of nuts...

And ground them into a creamy praline.

So that we could make bars of chocolate, which we painted gold...

...and they tasted like gold!!

Later we filled these chocolate balls with a salted caramel and peanut filling plus a lil extra nut popped inside.

We also dipped our prepped vervine chocolates!

And painted a streak of green on them as a reminder of what is inside.

After the bottoms of the balls dried we dipped them in a fresh coat of our tempered chocolate and finished off with a bronze dusted peanut!

And then came the weekend. I was lazy on Saturday and sat around most of the day until I went for my gorgeous run along the beach just before sunset. There was a storm passing out to sea and it was so cool!

Then on Sunday it was too beautiful not to go exploring so I went for an unplanned 4 hour bike ride! First I went by the naturist village...(aka nudist)

Then I got lost on a path in the woods and came out next to this guy. Not sure what he used to be but I wish I could have gotten closer to explore more.

Then I came out next to a vineyard! How terribly french of me XP

And I rode alon the national wildlife reserve in out part of France.

Now, being me, it's almost impossible for me to exist without finding some kind of second hand place. Well I found a flea market. I couldn't go in because I left my bike lock at home but I have two more months to go so...bam.

I can't even begin to complain when I see all the gorgeous sights I came across. I was hoping to catch some fishermen but realized it was too late and as luck would have it I stopped right as this man was going out. Serendipity at its most subtle.

I biked all the way to Séte and I'm hoping to bike to Montpellier some weekend. Maybe after break. Here are my last photos from the bike ride.

The boardwalk to the beach.

And some remnants that remind me of Fort Williams in Maine.

Well that's all for now. I will try to e better at uploading but I upload nearly every day on Instagram so find me!! My ID is Quesaracera 

Hope to see you there! Have a lovely October Day!

~Sara