Chocolate Mousse

 16 ounces Semi sweet chocolate chips

1/2 cup hot water

1 Tablespoon coffee extract or chocolate extract 

(If you don’t have these, you can add 1 tablespoon hot water to the 1 cup of hot water)

5 Large egg whites

2 Tablespoons White Sugar

1/4 Teaspoon Cream of Tartar (If you don’t have this, it doesn’t matter in the end. It just keeps your egg bites from peaking too hard)

16 ounces heavy whipping cream ( NOT COOL WHIP OR REDDI WHIP!!!)

Separate the eggs and save the yolks for another dish.

Beat the egg whites until they are funny but do not form peaks. Add the white sugar very slowly while you bake the egg so it does not deflate them. If you have the cream of tartar, mix it with the sugar first. If not, do not worry. After you have added all of the sugarbeet the egg bites to a medium peak.

In another bowl, beat the whipping cream to a soft peak. If you’re not careful, this will become butter.

While you are beating the egg whites and the whipping cream in separate bowls, melt your chocolate on the soften or melt setting of your microwave. If your microwave does not have this, make a double boiler by filling a pan with water and setting a bowl on top of the pan that will barely fit inside without sitting completely in the pan. Stir the chocolate until it melts completely. Very quickly start in the hot water and if you have used flavoring, start that in as well. As soon as you have finished this, take the chocolate off the heat and fold in 1/4 of the egg white mixture with a spatula. Add the rest and fold it in to Aerate the mixture - Do not use a mixer but you can use a spatula or a whisk if you do it gently! Repeat this process with your whipping cream. Start gently cover tightly and refrigerate until you are ready to use. This will store for up to five days.

I serve this moussse by piping it into a clear stemless wine glass and put chocolate shavings on top. I also use it between layers on my cakes and frost the outside using my favorite frosting

Makes a GREAT mini tart over a mini pie crust! Very versatile 

Hello, again, food!

I have spent the time from August of 2017 until now, (February 27, 2019) learning how to eat again.
I lost 16 lbs by eating nothing but grilled chicken and veggies, salads and pre made meals. I joined a gym, I got healthy... then, I discovered a couple who loved food as much as we did... AND, we are all in Ministry, so it made for a friendship straight outta Heaven.. or Hades, depending on whether we were in Ministry or cooking.... I gained almost 40 lbs of my weight back!
I decided that as long as it was Gary and myself, I could eat grilled chicken and salads, etc. But when we were out being sociable, not everyone wanted that for every meal, and quite frankly, neither do I!
So, I am about to embark on a journey and I want to invite you to come along!
I'm going to learn to make my favorite meals, just make them with fewer calories, fat, carbs... you know... HEALTHIER!
I'm not trying to be Paula Deen and these meals may not be low enough in calories to help you lose as much as I have, but it will help me not to gain it back, serve the foods I love to cook and help me feel as if I'm not cheating, as I lose this weight all over again.
Am I disappointed in myself? Yes... but I caught it and I've already lost all but 18 lbs of the 40 again, so I can afford to eat a few meals I love, but I've proven yet again that the fatty, fried foods canNOT take over.
Let's be honest, first of all. I stopped going to the gym... MISTAKE NUMERO UNO!
I started convincing myself that a burger and fries (HUGE burgers and HUGE orders of hand cut fries) wouldnt hurt me. I'd cut back and eat only salads for a couple of days and even it out. Would've worked, too.. but I didn't.. I ate the burger on Friday, the fajitas on Saturday and the Fried Chicken on Sunday. No exercise, and I was SO good at telling myself "tomorrow, I'll work out"... but, I didn't!
Wasn't long before I was over 200lbs again.
So, here I am, almost to where I was a year ago and I'm admitting that I screwed it up BIG TIME... but, I'm back on track and that is what matters, right?
So, go with me.. keep me honest... help me eat good food. NOBODY wants to eat boiled eggs, salads and a plain grilled chicken breast every day for the rest of their lives... so, lets eat good food, in moderate portions and change up some things... ground turkey or chicken in place of ground beef. I tried it by just altering the meat in my chili recipe? CUT 200 calories per serving!!!!
I truly CanNOT tell a difference.. it's ALL in how you prepare the meat and how you camouflage it. I actually crave this chili and it will be a recipe I post on my new blog...
On My Way to being a Skinny Cook. It will be this blog.. I'm just changing the name... come with me!