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Summer Lavender from the Garden

Infusion Series: Lavender Chocolate Truffles

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It’s Time to Relax with Chocolate Truffles Infused with Lavender Soothing, calming, a walk through the garden. Descriptors I use for our lavender infused chocolate truffles. Balancing Lavender Chocolate Ganache Making When using floral components in your ganache you have to be careful of the potency.  Too much is worse than too little so we [...]

Garden Mint

Infusion Series: Spearmint Chocolate Truffles

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For the past two Summers we have run a delightful Spearmint chocolate truffle.  As a child I was a big fan of Andes Candies.  These little mint chocolate squares we’re just a favorite.  Then over time I started finding that I had a mild allergic reaction to them.  Maybe too much of a good thing, [...]

Twelve, an Uptown Charlotte Holiday Market

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The Center City Green Market in Charlotte has been bouncing around the last couple of years uptown and while our own commitments have precluded us from being as involved as we’d like we still like to support local farms, artisans, and crafters in our region. Ted Boyd had a simple idea that took a lot [...]