Off the Beaten Path

by Elizabeth Kelly

I recently made Panna Cotta for a class I was participating in and used Knox Gelatine powder rather than sheets of gelatine. As with a lot of products, there was a recipe on the inside panel of the box. I don’t usually use gelatin but I had some leftover so in idle curiosity I read through the recipe – Chocolate Whirl. What caught my attention was the combination of chocolate and orange liqueur.

Orange and chocolate is a flavour combination I really like. I have a recipe for putting orange peel and chocolate in the coffee carafe before brewing the coffee. There's a Lindt chocolate bar that I particularly like with this combination.

I had to look up the name of chocolate bar and discovered that Lindt has whole stores of their own, just their chocolate, and one is right around the corner from my home. I clicked into their website looking for the bar and saw “Home Delivery is now Available.” Let's just skip that for now.

Lindt Excellence Dark Chocolate Orange Bar. A couple of squares with my coffee in the morning... Oops, swerved a little off topic just thinking about it.

Despite being interested in the recipe for the orange and chocolate, I was only missing orange liqueur, I thought it was worth reviewing.

It turned out it was a good thing I was testing the recipe and not preparing it for an occasion. I over beat the cream like a newbie and went from soft peaks to hard peaks to chocolate soup. It seems reviewing a recipe can have unexpected twists and turns.