Chocolate Pudding and Percy

[icarus]

I'm a cooking fiend this week. I've made soup stock from scratch, spagetti sauce from scratch, my own pizza dough, and - you guessed it - sauce and thus pizza from scratch. An ultra-hot thai dish two nights ago.

Did you know mayonaise is just egg yolk, oil and a little mustard, lemon and vinegar? And a hell of a lot of stirring. Shit, I stirred through two episodes of That 70's Show, Enterprise, and Law and Order before I was finally done.

But now I know how to make mayonaise.

Tonight: I'm making chocolate mousse, from a half-remembered recipe. Hey, I had the egg whites left over from Mayo, right?

I have an idea for a Harry/Percy story. Of all things.

Comments

Re: Chocolate Mousse

[salixbabylon.livejournal.com]

Then I'll give you my favorite recipe:

1 2/3 Cups semi-sweet (or bittersweet) chocolate chips/pieces
3 Tablespoons butter
5 eggs, separated
3 Tablespoons sugar
2 Tablespoons vanilla
1 Cup heavy whipping cream

In a double boiler, melt the chocolate and butter until smooth. Whip the egg yolks and half the sugar until doubled in volume. Separately whip the egg whites and the other half of the sugar, until stiff. Separately whip the cream and vanilla into medium peaks.

Fold the chocolate into the egg yolks. Fold that into the egg whites. Fold that into the whipped cream

Chill for 30 minutes at least.

Slather over the nearest of-age hottie and pull down the window shades. *g*

Re: Chocolate Mousse

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

*schlup!* Yum! And I've got all the ingredients here, except the whipping cream.

Ooo. Chocolate Mousse and OotP, anyone?

~Icarus