A few months ago, Lindsay and my mom made a message board for Christan homeschooled families and it is going well so far. So far there are only 34 members, but there should be a lot more soon. You have to be 13 or older to join, but if you are younger or don’t have an account, you can only read the conversations. We hope to be able to build each other up in times of need and encourage each other. The whole family is not required to join but we do encourage it. If you have the time, please check it out. http://forum.christianhomeschoolfamilies.com/
Today is the third of four reviews on the different flavors in the “Dessert Truffle Meltaways” set of Choxie chocolate
Strawberry Shortcake: The filling is smooth and creamy as a truffle should be. It also has some contrast with little crumbs of some sort of cookie instead of shortcake, which I think is good with the creamy chocolate, and the strawberry filling. The white chocolate goes well with the strawberry giving it a creamy taste. I’m not saying dark chocolate wouldn’t be good; I think it would great. The chocolate is creamy and smooth but not that great if you don’t care for white chocolate.
pieces of Strawberry Shortcake flavor per box: seven
OZ per box:eight
store: Target
price: five dollars (I got it on sell for four)
On Valentines day I got a box of Guylian Belgian Chocolate. It contained 6 flavors, which I have reviewed.
Original Praline is a delicious melt in your mouth dark and white chocolate which is swirled into a creamy seahorse. It has a caramel pecan toffee flavor; it does not taste like the Pralines my family makes, but none the less it is wonderful. If you are unsure if you like dark chocolate, this would be a good chocolate to begin with. The dark isn’t overpowering because it is mixed with white chocolate. It tastes like a rich milk chocolate, and also looks beautiful.
Orange is creamy, smooth, melt in your mouth dark chocolate. It has a wonderful, smooth, orange filling that goes well with the dark chocolate.
Caramel-Crisp this one is a creamy milk chocolate that has a caramel filling with toffee all throughout it. I like the contrast of the smooth chocolate, the filling, and the toffee bits.
Cappuccino has the same smooth dark chocolate with a more stronger coffee flavor than Cappuccino typically does. I think when GuyLian made this chocolate they should have called it Coffee or made it have a less strong coffee flavor. I also don’t like the strong dark chocolate flavor with the strong coffee flavor, but that’s just be me because I am not used to coffee.
Truffle is a milk chocolate with a smooth almost light chocolate flavored creamy filing. The filling goes well with the milk chocolate because they are different textures. The filling tastes a hint of a dark chocolate flavor in contrast to the exterior chocolate.
Strawberry has a thin shell of dark and white chocolate swirled together with a filling that has a strawberry and cream flavor.
OZ: 4.51
store: Wal-Mart
price: almost three dollars
Yesterday I said that for over the next four days I will be doing a review on each four flavors in the “Choxie Dessert Truffle Meltaways” set so today I am doing my second review.
“Chocolate Mousse”
The chocolate is the same as yesterday’s: creamy, smooth, melt in your mouth dark chocolate with with just the right amount of bitterness. The filling is a truffle consistency that melts in your mouth in only a few seconds. It is smooth, creamy, and delicious, and has a Belgian chocolate fudge flavor that is great.
pieces of “Chocolate Mose” per box: five
OZ of chocolate per box: eight
store: Target
Price: five Dollars (I got it on sell for four)
Yesterday I was at Target and I saw the Choxie “Dessert Truffle Meltaways” set for a dollar off and I decided to try it so for the next several days I will be doing a review on each flavor.
Key Lime Pie
Right when I opened the wrapper I could smell the aroma of Key Lime Pie and Dark Chocolate. The filling is very creamy and melts in your mouth almost instantly, and it taste like a slightly sweet piece of key lime pie. The chocolate is a little bitter; not much, just what is to be expected of dark chocolate. It is creamy and melts in your mouth in about five seconds. It has a few tiny crispy crumbs of graham crackers in it, but not as much as I would like. So over all it tasted like a piece of key lime pie dipped in dark chocolate (which I think is totally wonderful).
Pieces of key lime pie flavor per box: seven
oz of chocolate in box: eight
Store: Target
Price: five dollars (I got it on sale for four dollars)
My sister Lindsay got tagged at Live-Journal and posted this on her blog. So I thought I would do it too since I read her blog often.
1. 4 movies you can always watch:
The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, Pride and Prejudice, Roman Holiday, Spider Man
2. 4 bands you can never get enough of:
Go Fish, The Andrews Sisters,… Don’t have any others
3. 4 towns you lived in:Zachary, LA, Clinton, LA, Baker, LA Prattville, AL
4. 4 shows you like to watch:
Star Trek, LOST, Monk, Good Eats,
5. 4 websites you visit daily: none
6. 4 favorite foods:
chocolate, pizza,.. too Many to decide
7. 4 places you’d like to be now:
Ireland, Springfield MO, Little rock AR, Bossier city LA,
8. 4 songs that really move you
Its About the Cross by The Go Fish Guys, Amazing Grace My Chains are Gone by Chris Tomlin, For the Beauty of the Earth, and Amazing Grace,
9. 4 books you will always love:
Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Young Underground,
10. 4 colors that will always be in your closet:
Blue, green, yellow, pink
11.4 authors you’ll always love:
Jane Austen, C.S.Lewis, Louisa May Alcott, Robert Elmer
12. 4 favorite actors/actresses whose talent you honestly respect:
Audrey Hepern, Kirsten Dunst, Bryce Dallas Howard, Anne Hathaway
13.4 languages you’d love to be fluent in:
Italian, SSpanis, French, Irish
14.4 other countries you would like to live in:
none
15.4 skills you would like to improve:
Sewing, Cooking, Baking, Cross stitching,
16.4 items that are “a few of your favorite things”:
Animals, Raspberry Hot Chocolate, My Shawl Lindsay made for me, My glass bear my Mom and Dad gave me.
One night a few weeks ago, I was in the kitchen and Caroline came in and said that Mama was in our restroom and a mouse ran across the floor. She told Caroline to get Hannah and myself and a butterfly net and go catch it. We found three food storage boxes and and went to the restroom to catch the mouse. My mom was in the bathtub, Lindsay was on the counter videotaping it, Hannah was on the toilet ready to get the mouse, and Caroline and I were on the floor. While my mom moved the bookshelf from in the bathtub, Hannah Caroline and I were scrambling around trying to catch the poor terrified cute mouse. My mom kept saying for me to get in the tub and catch it and Hannah kept bending over so I was not able to get around her so finally I stepped over her and got in the bath tub. After it ran over to me a few times without being able to catch it I finally got it. We got a flexible cutting board and slid it under the container then we got a hard plastic cutting board and slid it under the other. Then we went out to the driveway and I let it go and when, it went it looked like a frog hopping through the grass.
A few months ago, Lindsay and my mom made a message board for Christan homeschooled families and it is going well so far. For a few months, nobody posted, but people are posting again. So far there are only 34 members, but there should be a lot more soon. You have to be 13 or older to join, but if you are younger or don’t have an account, you can only read the conversations. We hope to be able to build each other up in times of need and encourage each other. The whole family is not required to join but we do encourage it. If you have the time, please check it out. http://forum.christianhomeschoolfamilies.com/
This Thanksgiving we are going to make placemats with scrapbooking paper and stickers to decorate our table. We have some pumpkin orange square sheets of paper which we are going to decorate with fall stickers (leaves, pumpkins, Indian corn, and more…). After Thanksgiving I will post some of the recipes we used for the turkey, stuffing, sweet potatoes, and raisin meringue pie.