{"id":2617,"date":"2011-02-10T19:58:58","date_gmt":"2011-02-11T02:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marialiberati.com\/?p=2617"},"modified":"2011-02-10T19:58:58","modified_gmt":"2011-02-11T02:58:58","slug":"food-love-strawberries-chocolate-fondue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/2011\/02\/10\/food-love-strawberries-chocolate-fondue\/","title":{"rendered":"Food as a Love Language &#124; Strawberry Chocolate &amp; Creme Fondue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>copyright 2011 art of living,PrimaMedia,Inc\/Maria Liberati<br \/>\n<em>\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Love is the poetry of the senses\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0<strong>Honore de Balzac<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marialiberati.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Chocolate-Covered-Strawberries-21.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-2620\" title=\"Chocolate-Covered-Strawberries-21\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marialiberati.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Chocolate-Covered-Strawberries-21-150x150.jpg?resize=150%2C150&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nand\u00a0 so then is \u00a0food&#8230;here is a perfect\u00a0 Valentine&#8217;s Day gift ,recipe and kitchen accessory&#8230;.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marialiberati.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Dolce-by-Beka.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-2619\" title=\"Dolce by Beka\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marialiberati.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Dolce-by-Beka-150x150.jpg?resize=150%2C150&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong><em>Dolce by Beka<\/em><\/strong>&#8211; an elegant, yet simple foundue set,makes a beautiful addition to the kitchen, compact and easy to store as well. But you may want to keep this somewhere in the open as a decorative item. It is also dishwasher safe and comes with a candle to prevent the\u00a0chocolate from scorching. Just the right size for a fondue for 4 and if you want to make a luscious fondue for Valentine&#8217;s Day, this recipe works perfectly in the Dolce\u00a0 fondue set.<br \/>\n<strong><em>Chocolate &amp; Creme Fondue<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n1&#8217;2 lb of fresh, plump strawberries<br \/>\n16 ounces of dark chocolate (minimum 60% cocoa)<br \/>\n3 tblsps Brandy<br \/>\n1\/2 cup whipping cream<br \/>\nGently hull strawberries, wash and dry gently with paper towels. Prepare the fondue by melting the chocolate in a double boiler. Then add in the cream and stirring constantly till the mixture is creamy. Add im Brandy. Blend well, do not boil. \u00a0Transfer into the fondue, be sure candle underneath the fondue has been lit. Skewer the strawberries and dip in fondue.<br \/>\nGet more recipes in the Award Winning Book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marialiberati.com\/products-page\/bookstore\/the-basic-art-of-italian-cooking-holidays-special-occasions-second-edition\/\">The Basic Art of Italian Cooking: Holdays &amp; Special Occasions-2nd edition<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marialiberati.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/latestholidayfrontcover5_thumb.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2309\" title=\"latestholidayfrontcover5_thumb.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marialiberati.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/latestholidayfrontcover5_thumb.jpg?resize=104%2C134&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"104\" height=\"134\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>copyright 2011 art of living,PrimaMedia,Inc\/Maria Liberati \u00a0 Love is the poetry of the senses\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Honore de Balzac \u00a0 and\u00a0 so then is \u00a0food&#8230;here is a perfect\u00a0 Valentine&#8217;s Day gift ,recipe and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,51,47,11],"tags":[1322,106,1323,132,1324,1092,1325,1326,1137,1297,997,1327,442,1114,222,156,212,1169],"class_list":["post-2617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-caro-diariodear-diary","category-italian-culture","category-la-dolce-vita-dessert-recipes","category-recipes","tag-brandy","tag-chocolate","tag-chocolate-covered-strawberries","tag-cream","tag-easy-chocolate-recipes","tag-easy-dessert-recipes","tag-easy-farmhouse-cookbook","tag-easy-gourmet-cookbook","tag-easy-gourmet-recipes","tag-easy-valentines-day-recipes","tag-female-celebrity-chef-maria-liberati","tag-foundue","tag-gifts","tag-gourmand-world-cookbook-award-winner","tag-kitchen","tag-love","tag-strawberries","tag-the-basic-art-of-italian-cooking-holidays-special-occasions-2nd-edition"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}