Chocolate Mousse

My first time making chocolate mousse- A success! I got this recipe off of "Usborne First Cookbooks- Sweet Things" and this is the recipe:*this recipe is best for chocolate lovers since semi-sweet may be a bit too strong for others. Try substituting semi-sweet for something else*
ingredients:
4 squares (which I supposed was oz) semi-sweet chocolate
4 eggs
1 T water
-Break the chocolate into a bowl. Add a tablespoonful of water. Heat some water in a saucepan until simmering.
-Stand the bowl over the pan. When the chocolate melts, stir it until smooth, then put it to one side to cool.
- Separate the egg whites from the yolks. To do this you need two bowls. Crack each egg over one of the bowls, then slip the yolk from one half of the shell to the other. The white will slip into the bowl from below. Put the yolk in the other bowl.
- Beat the egg yolks until smooth, then slowly stir them into the chocolate.
- Add a pinch of salt to the egg whites and whisk them until they stand up in peaks.
- Gently fold the egg whites into the chocolate mixture and turn it over lightly until it is evenly mixed. Do not beat it.
- Carefully pour the mousse into a serving dish and put it in the refrigerator for a few hours. When it is set, sprinkle grated chocolate on it. Serve it with cream.
1. Stirring melted chocolate
2. Whipping egg whites
3. Mixing chocolate mixture with whisked egg whites
4. after all ingredients are incorporated
5. After 3 hours of refrigeration

Baked goodie and some news

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._. I spent several hours making this. Since I didn't have a mini muffin pan, I had to use my regular sized pan and had to fix the portioning myself. They turned out pretty well though and my parents really liked them. For me, the recipe only yielded 10 tarts, but I suppose you could make one more tart if you used even less of the filling and pastry in each tart.
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Ok. So I just came back from my 8th grade graduation trip which wasn't so great. Why? Well my school had us pay over $200 to spend only 2 days and one night at Washington DC. We mostly went to monuments and memorials. The places that actually required for us to pay money was for the bus ride to and from school, at the hotel (which we shared a room with 3 other people), our bagged lunch for the first day and bagged "dinner" for the second day and at two food courts. My bus' air conditioning kept breaking down and the emergency exits at the top of the bus had to be opened. Little did we know, there was going to be rain and lightning a few hours later. My teachers couldn't reach the latch while the bus was *moving* on the highway and even after we got off at school at 10pm, we still didn't get to close the darned things. The bus ride was a bit boring except for the occasional strange events (a car on fire on the opposite lane on the highway) and talking with my seat buddy, Nathan who was in my homeroom 2 years ago.
Psh..I know nobody really reads this blog unless I make them read it don't tell me that I have no life because that's already a known fact.

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