Chocolate & Oats - The Love Affair Continues...




You're in rude health when...you kick off the working week with a whisky, chocolate and oat fuelled oatstravaganza. 


We knew it.  Oats and chocolate are a match made in heaven. So how could we resist a chance to prove it? Especially with Valentine’s Day bearing down on us. We couldn't.  Which is why we found ourselves surrounded by chocolate & oat lovers in the Chelsea chocolate boudoir of Marc DeMarquette, renowned chocolatier, ranter and World Porridge Championship Partner-in-crime, on Monday.

We started as we meant to go on, taking oats and chocolate to places they've never been before. Marc handed out steaming oat milk hot chocolates injected (literally) with a dose of Old Pulteney whisky and topped with cream. 




The night then went something like this:

Porridge demo and taste using our Daily Oats. Nick ranting about only using Halen Mon Finer Flake Sea Salt in his porridge. Oatmeal porridge demo and taste. Nick ranting about how he was robbed at the World Porridge Championships. 

Nick making oatmeal and talking, at the same time
Salty caramel demo by Marc.  Same Marc ranting about Nick’s loss at the World Porridge Championships. In case you haven't made salted caramel, it takes a pro to do it while talking about something else and not watching the pan.   



Marc talking and making salted caramel, at the same time
A Demarquette chocolate cup filled with salty caramel porridge for everyone as per our 2011 Golden Spurtle entry. The one that didn't win. Silence whilst everyone dribbles over how good it tastes.

Salted caramel porridge in a melting chocolate cup 

So all in all, a normal Monday evening.

See video here courtesy of implausibleblog.com and pictures here.











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