Makes a Broken Heart according to iDrink's website. Alternatively, TheDrinkShop.com offers recipe for a Broken Heart Martini with sugar, cocoa powder, orange slice, Absolut Kurant and Godiva liqueur.
Chocolate was also once given by French doctors to their women patients as a prescription to cure broken hearts.
That was what I came up with when I ran a random Google search on "recipes for the broken hearted" (When I really should be writing one of my many overdue papers) .
Not that my heart is terribly broken. It just struck me how much we identify with one another in matters of sadness and heartbreak. Coping mechanisms for hard times differ widely from person to person, it'd be interesting to run a study on this, or just hear people's crazy stories. I once ate a one pound loaf of challah bread and half a jar of peanut butter in a few hours while agonizing over oncoming exams.
I think I'm going to start a running list of recipes and cures for ill-humored days. Soul-soothing for those heartbreaking, lonely, dejected, high-stress, dog-kicking, (do not take this literally; I heart animals), stomach-aching days where every traffic light you encounter flashes red.
To start, I found a recipe on the BBC-Food website for Chocolate Souffle Tarts with White Chocolate ice cream, served with vanilla sauce and chocolate cubes in dark chocolate cups. Total chocolate overload with major sugar-high points.
Then there's always Nigella Lawson's Chocolate Fudge Cake. Paired with an optional case of Coronas and a lime.
I find a cup of rich, fragrant hot chocolate soothing in down times. Aromatic earl grey with a tablespoon of pink grapefruit marmalade and honey is calming as well. Drink while listening to Air's "Alone in Kyoto" and Savath + Savalas' "Folksong for Cello."
Perhaps I shouldn't look solely at the multi-purpose cure of chocolate, and ignore the energizing orange. Chocolate and orange are a great couple. For a second there the thought of zingy orange zest and the lively scent of citrus perked me up a bit and I sniffed the air, hoping to smell the scent of grapefruit or navel oranges.
Orange is such a bright, happy, yummy color. So is yellow. I have a wonderfully color-cozy room: Bright yellow-orange walls tacked with spots of warm hued paint chips; orange and red paper lanterns floating above a brick red papasan chair and a bed covered in similarly colored comforter; a row of colorful scarves (colorful means belonging mainly to the red-magenta family) dangling above a bright red magnetic board on my dark brown bookshelf. The colors of the room are especially lovely when the morning sunlight streams though the window and the room glows a warm yellow-gold.
Ah, the power of beautiful, happy colors. And happy-inducing chocolate.
Read On, there's more...
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Think of your overdue papers as your blog. Then you'll knock them out in no time :-).
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