Chocolate...yay!
I just love plain (who thought up this dumb name anyway, there's nothing plain about it!) chocolate at around 75% cocoa content or higher. That's about perfect for me, below that most chocolates tend to taste too sugary for my liking.
The only downside to this is that with the amounts of chocolate I consume I always wonder why I'm not fatter than I already am...
Anyways, since I'm currently in Ireland, I had to explore what this country has to offer in terms of 'high-end' chocolates of course! Luckily, there is a food market where they sell handmade Irish chocolate...yummy! The guy who sells them is cool too, he always gives me stuff for free
Stuff I've had so far while being here:
This brand was mentioned here already I think. The mention of spices was what got me to buy it, because I'm normally not a big fan of orange flavor in chocolate. This particular orange flavor is pretty good though, more subtle than most other bars and doesn't overpower neither the spices nor the chocolate itself (which is good too, even with a low cocoa content of 55%). The spices I could detect were nutmeg and cinnamon, which made me think of Christmas while eating this bar!
Intrigued by my first experience with spices in chocolate, I just had to buy this. Chili chocolate is one of my favourites and adding spices to that can just make it better...right? Well, yes and no. I actually spit out the first piece of chocolate, it was like popping a whole nutmeg into your mouth. The trick is to nibble away at a really small piece for hours to make it less strong. The chocolate-spices mix with the chili adding a small zing to it is just addictive imho.
White chocolate with cranberries, pistachios and salted peanuts
No picture, this stuff would have melted away before I got to photograph it! White chocolate tastes rather bland and this was no exception...but the pistachios and especially the salted peanuts added a new dimension to it. Didn't really taste the cranberries though except by chewing them excessively.
Bought, but didn't try these two yet...they look good though!