As I’ve stated many times before, I love chocolate and peanut butter. It doesn’t take a genius to guess that as well as loving those items together, I also love them separately.
While meandering around the internet I came across a company selling Peanut Butter Marshmallows. Some subtle signals to H (sending him the link and going “I want these!”) ensured their arrival amongst my Christmas presents, and I soon got round to sampling them.
Toughness is not normally a positive term when associated with food. “Mmm, that was really tough…” is not a phrase you want to hear someone at the next table saying when you’re waiting for your food to arrive. Especially the “mmm” bit – that’s just odd.
I haven’t heard anyone say this, I should hasten to add. But if someone were to, it would probably be about something like biltong.
Valrhona is a renowned French chocolate company, whose name is so associated with quality that it appears on menus as part of the dessert name. Restaurants and food creators use its inclusion as a selling point, and it is pretty effective.
A few months ago, therefore, I was fascinated to read about a new type of chocolate they had created – blonde chocolate.
Imagine if you loved a chocolate bar. Well, quite liked it at least. And then they took that chocolate bar and added in one of your favourite ingredients: peanut butter.
A few weeks ago I had a day off work. I had various errands to run, and calculated that I would be passing through Alton (Hampshire) at around lunch-time.
I actually went to sixth form college in Alton, and even worked there for a couple of years, but I hadn’t really been there for about 10 years, so thought I should check out what had changed when it came to food.