{"id":143,"date":"2009-02-11T15:08:23","date_gmt":"2009-02-11T15:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/freshliving\/2009\/02\/how-do-you-chocolate.html"},"modified":"2009-02-11T15:08:23","modified_gmt":"2009-02-11T15:08:23","slug":"how-do-you-chocolate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/freshliving\/2009\/02\/how-do-you-chocolate.html","title":{"rendered":"How Do You Chocolate?"},"content":{"rendered":"

At Valentine’s Day a woman’s fancy turns to thoughts of chocolate.  Where I come from, chocolate is a health food (turns out, science agrees<\/a>!). So what are your favorites?  <\/p>\n

\"IMG_1778.JPG\"<\/a><\/span>Here are my current favies–Green & Blacks<\/a> organic caramel and almond milk chocolate bars, Lake Champlain<\/a> (made in Vermont!) dark chocolate peppermint crunch, and a big honkin’ 62% cacao beauty from Scharffen Berger<\/a>.  <\/p>\n

Though I’m mostly a break-off-a-piece-and-chomp chocolate eater, I can’t resist baking with it too, and used the Scharffen Berger this week to make these itsy-bitsy chocolate cookies from Heidi Swanson’s fabulous recipe<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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Happy Chocolate Day, everyone!  And speaking of, have you visited our beautiful Valentine’s Day page<\/a> yet?  It’s full of yummy fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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