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I will let Angie ask about healthy foods like apples and carrots...me I want to know about chocolate! 
The Valentine's dinner idea of just eating chocolate put me in a choclate mood today. We have recently had a couple opportunities to sample several different sea salt and chocolate treats. Sounded like a crazy combination but it is delish. It is all the craze now it seems - I see them popping up everywhere. Especially now, the chocolate, caramel, and sea salt combo is what I'm seeing the past couple of months.
To buy them is not cheap and I figure we could make some delicacies on our own to try. A woman recently brought a homemade chocolate sea salt truffle to a planning meeting - to die for.
So who has made some sea salt and chocolate treats? Any good recipes to share? How hard is it?
Waiting anxiously and drooling on the keyboard...
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 I'm drooling with you Mary...and waiting to hear ideas. This sounds just what this chocolate lover would enjoy
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One idea: I make chocolate fudge (using the condensed milk recipe), then mix in toasted pecans at the end and sprinkle sea salt on the top before it sets. So good and so easy. Nice for gifting too!
And this doesn't involve sea salt, but I just love vanilla ice cream topped with crushed pretzels and melted chocolate... 
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Oh, YUM!! 
How about these Chocolate Truffles with Sea Salt?
Gonna' have to make those for Easter brunch desert...maybe I'd better practice before Lent starts, eh? 
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stellamaris wrote:
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...very good idea....
Those Pioneer Woman ones you linked to are the one's I'm seeing pop up most online - like Pinterest. Guess I'll gives those a try first.
Now I have to go get more sea salt. We ran out a week or so ago and I've not made it to my favorite spice shop. Does anyone else have favorite sea salts. There are some really amazing varieties out there.
We've been getting Murray River sea salt and Portuguese Flor de Sal
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Flor de Sal is yummy. I also really like the French Grey--it has an interesting mineral/earthy taste to it. I found it in the spice aisle at my grocer.
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Mary don't limit yourself to just chocolate and sea salt. Caramel and sea salt is another awesome combination. OR, you could have a perfect trifecta with chocolate, caramel and seasalt!
I haven't tried the recipes that I linked, but I think that I might this week!
Caramel sea salt brownies
Fleur de Sel Caramls
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there are some yummy fleur de sel de guerande at amazon, i've only tried a couple but would love to try them all
we also like Maldon sea salt -- very very light
and right now i have some black smoked sea salt from hawaii, that we like to grind and sprinkle on grilled salmon after grilling. yum. i'm thinking it might be good on sweetish things as well.
i don't have a favorite recipe, as using salt in combination with sweet stuff is a common Filipino thing to do -- so i use it in everything -- strawberries, pineapple, etc. if you wanted to do caramel and/or chocolate anything you can try chocolate dipped strawberries then sprinkle with a bit of sea salt before the chocolate sets up. you can also try caramel apples + sea salt after putting in the caramel coating.
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Betsy wrote:
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Yes!!! THIS!!!!!!
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lots of ideas here
i'm eyeing the matcha ones -- but i might give it a twist - caramel-matcha-sea salt
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Okay....making this tonight.....and stopping looking at recipes.... 
Salted Caramel Hot Chocolate Recipe
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Ohhhh, my son is going to love you for this...he's been talking carmel hot cocoa for days...
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Well, we made the Pioneer Woman recipe...or should I say I watched, and my daughter made them. And this how they turned out:
When I went to get the sea salt I found they had this Red Gold (Hawaii Kai’s Palm Island Gourmet™ Sea Salt). It was a lovely reddish color and figured it would be nice for Valentine truffles - so that is what is on the ones that have a reddish sprinkle.
They are all really yummy. So glad we did it. They are really very easy to make. But they still aren't cheap - all that chocolate was a bit $$$$$$$. But I guess to buy the amount we were able to make would have been a lot more.
My daughter blogged the process here.
Still cravin' the chocoalte, sea salt, and caramel, so keep any recipes or ideas coming....
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O.K. Mary, I was totaling thinking about you and this thread last night. I had a chance to go to a Chocolate tasting party and it was amazing. This is their site and they have some great information. And I did ask to try a small sample of sea salt chocolate ... oh, my
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