Chocomatoes!!!! Part 1.

hmm sounds like it could be nice may have to try it,now about the carrots ..not with chocolate are they lol..:o)

Funny you should say that.....
I do like my chocolate! I haven't decided if it will be white or lavender yet, though I may do both. As for the carrots, I have to make my mind up about the variety.

topped with hundreds & thousands i hope.. lol.

and a cherry on the top :o))or is that taking it too far? ok then,a cherry tomato..!!

I will be doing a number of recipes this coming year but none will have 100s and 1000s on. Dessicated coconut and cinnamon/mixed spice maybe.

well a tomato is a fruit after all so why not!
near here we have a chocolate deli who make chocolate pizzas ~ they ought to try your tomatoes on top GD!

i think its really good to experiment ~ how else would we have found that chocolate makes a chilli con carne richer or that it goes so well with strawberries etc.

i love the name ~ chocomatoes!!

i fancy chocolate and grapefruit or plums or what about a chocolate asparagus!!? chocolate and cheese? ~ maybe not so good if you get migraine?

please keep us updated on the experiments.

now i really have to open that tin of Celebrations i have been saving..i may even try a few with a sweet chilli dip my son says to try brown sauce but i think i will give that a miss. cant wait to see how you get on with the carrots..

mix the sweet chilli dip with philadelphia joanella ~ its lovely for dipping crisps in ~ havent tried chocolate ~ yet!
the tomatoes look very pretty!
im impressed with how clean the stove looks!!!

The idea of chocolate and cheese came to me last year in Scotland. I thought of doing chocolate covered cheese sticks but the idea never got off the drawing board.
If I get a crop of fuchsia berries this year, I will be trying those as well. And if I can get some of those honeysuckle bushes with the edible fruit, they will be getting the chocolate treatment as well!
Ooh! Just had an idea: what about sweet potato and chocolate pudding? I wonder if it has already been done?
Right, off to the drawing board with this one!

i wondered about the sweet potato but thought it might be too dry.
how about some herb covered chocolate?

aha! i just had an idea ~ flowers covered in chocolate ~ now who could resist those??

will get some phili tomorrow & try it Stick,
yuck ,the chocolate instead of gravy what a thought..

You are all getting me thinking! Yes, the sweet pot/chocolate might be dry but not with thick, creamy, custard on it......
I have to admit, I rarely clean the oven! Sonia, my much better half, keeps it sparkling!

same in this house OH doesnt know where anything is kept, the iron,the shower gell,the washing up liquid,the T bags oh sorry he knows where the t.v. remote is. lol.

I am definately not that bad! I cook, clean, vacuum, bath the kids, do the gardens (front and back) ferry the older 2 around, and paint.
My superstar wife is an excellent tiler and wallpaperer as well as a multi-tasking wonder woman!

ha ha i hope you tell her that..im not putting my OH down really.. he has just come home from work now after being on lates & he does the heavy work on our two allotments. ..cant cook wont cook lol..

My wife has tiled the kitchen walls (all 4 of them, floor to ceiling) and all of the downstairs floor except for the living room end of the LR/Dining room, and the downstairs toilet walls and floor! She fiited the kitchen with my dad whilst I was at work, and designed it beforehand!
Her wallpapering is second to none: smooth and no visible joints. A friend who is a plasterer, was not happy when he saw the decorating, as he thought we had got someone else in to plaster the walls! He took some convincing that it was thick lining paper that we emulsioned over!

OMG & i thought i was good.. doing all the decorating & painting myself over 18 yrs in this house, i decorated the front room last year & painted the kitchen last summer,done the gardens back & front,kept 2 allotments going with veg..salad..sometimes looking after some of my 15 grandchildren..i have to take my hat off ( if i had one on ) to Sonia she does sound like super woman, i hope you show her how much you appreciate her but i am sure you do... ahh well i am off for my nightcap of drinking chocolate lol..spk soon..:o)

my daughter used to love banana and tomato sarnies,never tryed them myself but she adores them,chris

I'm a chocaholic too !
Have you tried them ? I wonder if they're nice.
But then I am not a foody person. I eat to stay alive, and that's all. I think I could survive on vitamin tablets lol - less bother.

My grandfather used to put sugar on a salad. He said it was fruit and he had always done it apparently. I don't think I'd like it :o( But then I'm not a foody person.

I saw a film once where they had chicken to eat in one of the scenes. They poured chocolate over it :o(( Ulg - lol. I can't remember the name but Judy Dench was in it.

Well I hope the chocomatoes taste nice :o)

mmm.... Will try these out come BBQ season.
Joanella..... I wouldn't say my OH is lazy and I love her to death, but I hide my money in the vacuum cleaner.LOL.

My aunt always put sugar on her tomatoes, even added it to bolognese sauce, I do love my toms but not sure about having them with chocolate......

ha ha Martin, thats a good one.. so she lets you have money then..lol.

LL that really made me laugh.
i think GD and his OH come from the planet Krypton!?
Joanella i think my OH is like yours except he doesnt do an allotment. he gets in a bad temper if he even has to look for a screwdriver! its easier to do it myself.
i did read a book once in which an old lady put carrots in the trifle instead of peaches ~ i dont know what she would have put in the chocolate!?

A friend of mine used to put gravy on her rice pudding..
..I had some strange friends..but think they have improved over the years...well,almost...Lol.

The look interesting dark chocolate is better for the heart, as for a concoction, how about what my sister use to eat, sandwich of jam, pepper and cheese.

How's about an Avocado Brulee! Cream avo with a little cream, add brown suger, nutmeg and cinnamon and do the usual suger topping. It's yummy, tried it out on friends who could not tell it was avo......and of course you could always top it with Choccy!!!

mmmmm very tasty lulu!

I shall be trying that one!
The verdict on the plain chocolate covered toms was:
7/10 me.
5/10 the better half.
0/10 the twins!
1/10 from my eldest son.
My other son refused to try one!

Anyway, the consensus of opinion was to try milk chocolate, so that is what I will be doing next week, still using the same variety of toms.

The carrots may also get done next week!

What do you good folk think about chocolate coated king prawns? I can't list the comments I have had so far: some are not fit to be printed and others I can't spell!

i can only imagine!
im wondering about chocolate celery ~ crunchy and healthy.!!??
i think chocolate covered crisps has already been tried hasnt it?

Celery is one of my favourite veggies and some bite sized choccy covered pieces sounds nice! Thats another one to try, thank you.

I'll keep thinking
how about sage or mint leaves?

Mmmm to mint leaves and choc, or lavender, or rose petals........and YUK to gravy on rice pud!! My dogs would like it though!!

ah rose petals ~ thats a good one! marigolds would work too [not the plastic gloves!!]
i fancy grapefruit covered in chocolate.

Grapefruit segments covered in a lemon flavoured white chocolate: another one to try.

STOP! you're making my mouth water!
are you opening a shop GD?