Thursday, February 9, 2012

Lifestyles

Food

Decadent treats for your sweetheart: Dark chocolate ganache, chocolate bark

Decadent and delicious, chocolate is loved by aficionados everywhere. Here are some tempting recipes to try your hand at making this delicious treat.
Basic Dark Chocolate Ganache
This basic ganache recipe can be used to make dipped chocolates or as a filling for petit four cups or truffle shells.
500 g (1 lb) 35 per cent cream
60 g (2 oz) good-quality honey

Entertainment

Snow sculpture demo going instead

Due to too few entries, the Rainy River Arts Collective has changed its “Winter Sculpture Garden” from being a contest to a demonstration instead.
The RRAC needed to continue on with the project, despite only drawing a couple of entries, because so many people have worked so hard to make this happen so far, RRAC spokesperson Lindsay Hamilton said yesterday afternoon.