dessert and drink recipes!!

drink tip: okay, you know those fancy fruit blend juices you can get at corner stores? you can use any of them with champagne, and it will make an excellent mimosa-like drink - not the "smoothie" varieties, but the actual *juice* blends. (and if you have red wine lying around, you can pour these juice blends in, add fruit bits and make an impromptu sangria.) lychee juice is also recommended for the mimosa-like drinks.

1) champagne coconut sorbet yummy thing
- two scoops high end coconut sorbet'
- champagne
- raspberry sauce (pureed raspberries with sugar and a squeeze of lemon juice, strained)

pour a small amount of champagne over the coconut sorbet and then drizzle raspberry sauce over it.

2) dark chocolate sauce - 1 serving
- 1 section ghiradelli (sp?) unsweetened chocolate bar
- 1/4 cup water
- sugar to desired taste
- pat of butter
- vanilla extract

in a small saucepan, melt chocolate in water - then add sugar. when mixture starts bubbling and looks uniform, turn off heat and add butter and vanilla extract. serve over ice cream. you can also add peanut butter to the above recipe if you're feeling exceptionally un-diet-conscious and/or high.

also, the mussel sauce in the previous recipe is excellent for dipping lobster.

all i have to say is that my girlfriend ate well last night for valentine's day -- and so did i!!! go me! :-P