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Welcoming Center, Management and General Chat => Chit Chat => Topic started by: andiesenji on November 08, 2011, 06:10:26 pm
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I am a diabetic. I have it in good control and am very careful about my sugar intake.
However, from time to time I am tempted to go "over the edge" so to speak.
Newly arrived in my email was this missive from The Nibble (http://www.thenibble.com/zine/archives/chambre-de-sucre-fancy-sugar.asp) to which I have subscribed for a few years.
So, not only am I tempted by this article, I naturally had to click on the online purchasing button (http://www.thenibblegourmetmarket.com/categories.aspx?Keyword=chambre+de+sucre) and have now spend far too much on things that I can look at but not consume. Hopefully my guests will be suitably impressed to make this all worth while.
And to top it off I ordered the recipe book "Sugar Baby" - Oy, am I a pushover!
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I can see how you could be tempted by this one Andie - the sugars are so beautifully presented. I hope your guests feel suitably honoured when you offer these to them.
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Adorable book Andie.I had a read of some of the reviews and most people are pleased with the book.The sugar shapes are amazing,no wonder you went overboard with the purchasing button. ;) ;)
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Adorable book Andie.I had a read of some of the reviews and most people are pleased with the book.The sugar shapes are amazing,no wonder you went overboard with the purchasing button. ;) ;)
Sometimes I have virtually no resistance (shopwise) when something like this slips across my desktop. :-))
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Sometimes I have virtually no resistance (shopwise) when something like this slips across my desktop. :-))
(http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys/smiley-happy119.gif) (http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys.php)(http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys/smiley-happy119.gif) (http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys.php)(http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys/smiley-happy119.gif) (http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys.php) we are cut from the same cloth Andie!
Oh, they are adorable.....don't blame you for going crazy on the plastic.
I have sussed that sugarbaby book out previously.....I did have to weigh up if I needed more sugar in my life though :-\
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Andi, on your recommendation, I subscribe to this site. Love it. Saw the sugar stuff this morning and was REALLY tempted. However with a daughter who is a dentist, I didn't dare. She is doing battle at the GC school at the moment as they reward the children with lollies.
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I love the sugarbowl. I don't know why as we don't use one as we don't take sugar in tea or coffee nor do most of our friends.
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:) Wow, i love the pastel colored balls.
Robyn ;D
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l have a friend andie who buys timtams [ yummy choc biscuits ] puts them in a container just so she can smell them
as she cant eat them either makes her terrlble sick
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l have a friend andie who buys timtams [ yummy choc biscuits ] puts them in a container just so she can smell them
as she cant eat them either makes her terrlble sick
I know just how she feels. I have a problem with regular chocolate or "raw" or "natural" cocoa but I can use Dutch process cocoa with no problems. It's not exactly an allergy, my allergist tells me it is one of the components of theobromine. Within a few minutes of consuming it, I get a severe frontal headache, both sides so it's not like migraine.
I rarely get headaches, since solving my sinus/allergy problem I don't have a headache from one year to the next, so these that occur with consumption of chocolate are isolated.
Fortunately I can cook with it, just have to remember not to taste as my threshold is very low. I can do some interesting things with Dutch process cocoa though, so it isn't too great a deprivation.
I've been asked by neighbors to make my fruited cocoa Christmas cake, which Helene so nicely converted to the TMX for me and I will post photos of same. I use the black cocoa from King Arthur Flour catalog so it turns out quite dark and with intense flavor.