(n.) A paste or cake composed of the roasted seeds of the Theobroma Cacao ground and mixed with other ingredients, usually sugar, and cinnamon or vanilla.
(n.) The beverage made by dissolving a portion of the paste or cake in boiling water or milk.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the bars of Antwerp and the cafes of Bruges, the talk is less of Christmas markets and hot chocolate than of the rising cost of financing a national debt which stands at 100% of annual national income.
(2) Often, flavorings such as chocolate and strawberry and sugars are added to low-fat and skim milk to make up for the loss of taste when the fat is removed.
(3) The others received a cookie and chocolate mashed diet (C.C.
(4) chocolatiers, I very much enjoy your chocolates but am forced to eat them blindfold because of your perverse decision to cast them into the shapes of seafood.
(5) He was sitting in his buggy in the hall, his face, hands and clothes smeared with chocolate.
(6) When you’ve got an economy shot, as it is in Tasmania, that was seen as a reasonable endeavour by the federal government to assist in enhancing the tourism effort in our state together with helping the dairy industry and creating another 200 factory jobs.” Then opposition leader Tony Abbott announced before the election that the Coalition would provide $16m towards a $66m upgrade of the Cadbury Chocolate factory in Hobart “to boost innovation, support growth in local manufacturing jobs and expand tourism”.
(7) Meanwhile, Guy Harvey has this to say of Kathryn Woodfine's chocolate dilemma: "Settling for the Wheat Crunchies demonstrates the following: Kathryn doesn't go for what she wants in life, she isn't resourceful.
(8) No differences were observed in cocoa powder for drinks and plain chocolate flakes treated with 0.5 dm2 polystyrene of 1 mm thickness.
(9) Pour this mix over the chopped chocolate, let sit for a moment, then stir to combine.
(10) This is an extreme view... hand round some chocolates.'
(11) Invite us to your get-together... and win a box of chocolates too Would you like to feature on this page?
(12) Hitting the slopes here isn’t so much an outing as it is a full-on expedition, albeit one fuelled by hot chocolate and whisky toddies at the bottom of every run.
(13) A person who's that out of it deserves both an owl and chocolate, so I got off the train at Piccadilly Circus and picked him up a box.
(14) You should be able to see the distinctive double spiral made even more striking by the dark layering of chocolate.
(15) H. influenzae strains were tested with both Haemophilus test medium (HTM) and PDM ASM II chocolate agar, while the S. pneumoniae strains were tested on Mueller-Hinton sheep blood agar.
(16) The recovery of rodent hairs from chocolate has been significantly improved by the introduction of an additional defatting step, substitution of 40% isopropanol for water, and substitution of mineral oil-heptane (85+15) for heptane in the trapping-off step.
(17) The levels of migration of mineral hydrocarbons from polystyrene cups and glasses have been measured into aqueous food simulants as well as lager, beer, cola, sparkling apple juice, lemon barley water, coffee, hot chocolate, tea, lemon tea and chicken soup.
(18) The US diet phenomenon Jenny Craig was bought by Swiss multinational Nestlé, which also sells chocolate and ice-cream.
(19) Truth told, I simply hadn't the time to do anything more than snap a bar of expensive chocolate into jagged shards and put it in the middle of the table.
(20) Freezing, I get my new friends to hold my place in the queue while I grab a hot chocolate.
Truffle
Definition:
(n.) Any one of several kinds of roundish, subterranean fungi, usually of a blackish color. The French truffle (Tuber melanosporum) and the English truffle (T. aestivum) are much esteemed as articles of food.
Example Sentences:
(1) Head chef Christopher Gould (a UK Masterchef quarter-finalist) puts his own stamp on traditional Spanish fare with the likes of mushroom-and-truffle croquettes and suckling Málaga goat with couscous.
(2) The 32 dead souls ringing the Dr Strangelove war room of the NFL ownership meeting interrupt their Randroid tongue-bathing only to squeal like scalded truffle pigs at the thought of any power devolving to the actual people whose ability, knowledge and gameplay make the NFL worth watching in the first place.
(3) Buzet , a hilltop village near the Slovenia border, celebrates its truffles in November.
(4) I don't mean extraordinary in a Michelin-starred look-at-these-truffled-potatoes kind of way (though she has two Michelin stars: one for the Spotted Pig in Greenwich , the other for the Breslin, in the Ace Hotel in Midtown).
(5) I’d recommend the black angus fillet with this amazing caramel soy sauce and the lobster with white truffle aioli, washed down with a Carousel – a cocktail served with alcoholic cotton candy.
(6) The brutal peaks of the Monte Rosa massif occasionally appear through the clouds while we eat our picnic of bread, ham and pickles, bought from a Swiss supermarket for £12 that morning, which seems a rip-off when we go for a beer in the cafe at the top of the cable car from Macugnaga, and see truffle pasta on the menu for €7.
(7) There, he ate a "wide, tender" circle of celeriac paved with chestnut slices, crisply gratinéed, set in a puddle of truffle sauce – delicious, but simple.
(8) The French president "eats everything" except caviar, truffles and lobster, and doesn't like cabbage, artichokes or asparagus much, according to a former chef who spent 40 years cooking for six French heads of state from Georges Pompidou to the incumbent, François Hollande .
(9) Remember what your grandfather used to say: 'The French, they eat black truffle!
(10) Photograph: Alamy For good measure you can bike along its lanes, canoe on its rivers and enjoy the area's confit du canard , Bergerac wines, chèvre, walnut oil and truffles.
(11) Come autumn, there will be prized truffles and mushrooms too.
(12) 1 tbsp honey ⅛ tsp truffle oil 1 radicchio, trimmed and cut lengthways into quarters 1½ tbsp olive oil Salt and black pepper 4 1.5cm-thick slices sourdough 100g taleggio (or mature brie), torn into 1cm pieces 40g parmesan, finely grated 2 tsp picked thyme leaves Put the honey and truffle oil in a small saucepan, warm through gently, just to combine, then take off the heat and set aside.
(13) Fortnum & Mason The luxury department store group posted 16% like-for-like sales growth for the five weeks to 1 January, as shoppers stocked up on tea, hampers, caviar, smoked salmon and white truffles.
(14) The tyrosinase activity is on in the young ascocarps (in the peridium, hypothecium, and fertile veins) and off in the ripe ones, thus it appears correlated with the age and differentiation of the sporogenic hyphae that arise from the hypothecium; a similar correlation has been previously described in Neurospora crassa, which is an ascomycete as well as the truffles.
(15) And we'll live on ice cream and blueberry truffles and pancakes dripping with molasses, washed down with tequila slammers and absinthe.
(16) Comparisons of mitochondrial DNA now demonstrate a surprisingly close relationship between species of false-truffles in the genus Rhizopogon (Hymenogastraceae) and the mushroom genus Suillus (Boletaceae).
(17) Admission 35 kn Buzet, Croatia The architecture in medieval Buzet, in the Istrian peninsula, is a reminder of the days the Venetian empire ruled this town, and there are some super views overlooking the Mirna River, but most folk come for the truffles.
(18) Here, finally, are salads with more than three ingredients, plus savoury crêpes, pizzas, imaginative stuff like carpaccio of squash, an apple ravioli, and dishes using truffles or ginger and almonds.
(19) The striking morphological differences separating all Suillus species from Rhizopogon imply an acceleration in the rate of morphological change relative to molecular change during the evolution of these false-truffles from their mushroom ancestors.
(20) THE false-truffles (Hymenogastrales) are a group of basidomycetous fungi that produce underground truffle-like basidiocarps.