chocolate post (it's been a while!)
Mar. 31st, 2008 02:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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b0st0n and davis_square communities might have noticed the posts for the Emperor Norton Stationary Marching Band fundraiser this Thursday. (A fine example is here at http://community.livejournal.com/ensmb/7734.html).
Especially keen-eyed LJers might have noticed this line right here in the middle of the evening's offerings:
Custom Truffles inspired by ENSMB & the Madcap Rumpus Society from Truffleupagus. I know *I* noticed it, since Truffleupagus is, essentially, me.
Custom flavors are a new thing for me (with the exception of Foresthouse Crunch, which was created as a direct request from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
foresthouse back in the day and I'm glad she did), but as it turns out they're a hoot to come up with. First I went to the ENSMB website and checked out their song titles. Then I sat back and thought about circus bands and circuses and general. Then I got a special request from the band's contact person, who liked the thought of a flavor named after her stage persona.
And then I got desperate and started IMing people to ask for ideas. :P (Emperor Norton, sadly, was not a foodie...or let's say that if he was, he left no blog behind listing his favorite dishes).
The Final 5:
*Emperor Norton's Imperial Blend Peach brandy being wildly popular in San Francisco during Norton's reign, it went in here. (Sourdough was popular too, but there are some things even I won't try). Permjolnir_babe's suggestion, it's coated in a shell of marbelized white & milk chocolates. Someday I'll have the skill to write Imperius Rex! on each one, but not this time.
*Mad Squirrel They've got a song called 'Mad Squirrel March'; I had four kinds of nuts and hazelnut liqueur. It worked!
*Black Diamond I'm a little proud of this one. I named it after the rogue elephant I posted about a few weeks ago, and set out to make the strongest, bitterest truffle ever seen. And then I added espresso. I'm sort of scared of these, to be honest.
*Madcap Rumpus Another pun based on the name of the circus troupe that performs with the band. Spiced rum and dark chocolate go together like Paris Hilton and vapidity.
*The Whipcracker The request flavor from the performer, and another one that I'm surprised and pleased by...she asked for "something innocently sweet, with something that snuck up and whapped the taste buds". So milk chocolate and raspberry liqueur for the sweet innocence, cloves and wasabi for the whap, and Chinese 5-spice powder for the "what the HELL am I tasting?". All in a shell of white chocolate. It's just wacky--I've never worked with a truffle that tasted so different depending on how chilled it was. If it was a superhero, it would be Ambush Bug.
So anyhow, locals, if you're not doing anything (like, oh, being in a play all you Firsties) and want to support a great band and eat a lot of chocolate, come out to this event!
b0st0n and davis_square communities might have noticed the posts for the Emperor Norton Stationary Marching Band fundraiser this Thursday. (A fine example is here at http://community.livejournal.com/ensmb/7734.html).Especially keen-eyed LJers might have noticed this line right here in the middle of the evening's offerings:
Custom Truffles inspired by ENSMB & the Madcap Rumpus Society from Truffleupagus. I know *I* noticed it, since Truffleupagus is, essentially, me.
Custom flavors are a new thing for me (with the exception of Foresthouse Crunch, which was created as a direct request from
foresthouse back in the day and I'm glad she did), but as it turns out they're a hoot to come up with. First I went to the ENSMB website and checked out their song titles. Then I sat back and thought about circus bands and circuses and general. Then I got a special request from the band's contact person, who liked the thought of a flavor named after her stage persona.And then I got desperate and started IMing people to ask for ideas. :P (Emperor Norton, sadly, was not a foodie...or let's say that if he was, he left no blog behind listing his favorite dishes).
The Final 5:
*Emperor Norton's Imperial Blend Peach brandy being wildly popular in San Francisco during Norton's reign, it went in here. (Sourdough was popular too, but there are some things even I won't try). Per
mjolnir_babe's suggestion, it's coated in a shell of marbelized white & milk chocolates. Someday I'll have the skill to write Imperius Rex! on each one, but not this time.*Mad Squirrel They've got a song called 'Mad Squirrel March'; I had four kinds of nuts and hazelnut liqueur. It worked!
*Black Diamond I'm a little proud of this one. I named it after the rogue elephant I posted about a few weeks ago, and set out to make the strongest, bitterest truffle ever seen. And then I added espresso. I'm sort of scared of these, to be honest.
*Madcap Rumpus Another pun based on the name of the circus troupe that performs with the band. Spiced rum and dark chocolate go together like Paris Hilton and vapidity.
*The Whipcracker The request flavor from the performer, and another one that I'm surprised and pleased by...she asked for "something innocently sweet, with something that snuck up and whapped the taste buds". So milk chocolate and raspberry liqueur for the sweet innocence, cloves and wasabi for the whap, and Chinese 5-spice powder for the "what the HELL am I tasting?". All in a shell of white chocolate. It's just wacky--I've never worked with a truffle that tasted so different depending on how chilled it was. If it was a superhero, it would be Ambush Bug.
So anyhow, locals, if you're not doing anything (like, oh, being in a play all you Firsties) and want to support a great band and eat a lot of chocolate, come out to this event!
