Who Moved My Cheese

My very first corporate order.

Recently I became part of a group of  coaches who needed someone to run their virtual back office. As they are all self employed, including me, they don't have an office-space for Conlibrio; so I work from home, which is great.

For one of their current projects they use the book "Who Moved my Cheese" on dealing with change in your work and life. It's a great little book, I read it years ago and if you have some change going on in your life, it's a great read.

Anyway as you can guess from the tittle it involves cheese, and who else would be worried about their cheese being moved than mice. So the characters in the story are mice.When the coaches saw this bowl, which coincidently sold just recently to someone in the USA, they got an idea to give a little something to each participant of these workshops And here they are 26 little mouse each with a piece of cheese:

A local carpenter made the blocks of wood for me, I oiled them with a white oil to give them a nice finish.

Each one is different, I just can't make the same things twice.

If you want to see more I uploaded all their pictures to my flickr were you can see some of the making of as well. Here the final one for this blog post:

Today the were give to the participants and I just got a call that they were well liked, I'm so happy they all find new loving homes :-)

Sweet Saturday

Since I'm such a sweet tooth I love making desserts. I thought it would be nice to share one with you every week on Saturday, so we can all enjoy a Sweet Saturday :-)
I'll start with my chocolate mouse for which I'm rather famous with the family in law. I looked at many different recipes, combined these and honed it it further over the years.

Ingredients for 4 persons:

• 150 gr dark chocolate 
• 50 gr milk chocolate
• 2 egg yolks
• 2 egg whites
• 4 table spoons of icing sugar
• 2 dl of cream
• 1 sachet of vanilla sugar
• chocolate buttons or chopped dark choclate

Melt the 200 gr of chocolate au bain marie or use microwave, but be careful not to burn it.

Whip the egg yolks with 2 table spoons of icing sugar, than mix with the melted chocolate.

Whip the egg whites with 2 table spoons of icing sugar until stiff (white peaks) than SPOON through the chocolate mix. To make this easier mix a little through it first than spoon the rest through so not to loose the air so carefully trapped in the egg whites. 

Whip the cream with the vanilla sugar and SPOON this through the mix. 

Finally add some chocolate buttons for a little crunch. 

Put in one big bowl or individual bowls as you prefer and refrigerate for minimum 3 hours before serving.

Enjoy!