Those brightly-colored turkeys on our Thanksgiving table were, of course, chocolate filled. Usually, this sort of foil-covered treats are, while chocolatey, usually hollow. I purchased these at the World Market store. I knew when I picked them up that they were not at all hollow, but instead, completely full of chocolate.
Before Kevin, April, and Peter left to go back to Fort Worth, after our Thanksgiving days, Peter had peeled away the foil and begun to gnaw away at a yummy turkey. Who knew how long it it would take for him to completely eat it all up.
I did rescue the other two turkeys. I had a plan.
I was going to peel away the foil and grind up the turkeys and make my own chocolate chips.
I have a small food processor. I learned, quickly, that I couldn’t load up the bowl with too much of the hard chocolate. The chopper blades got stuck under the hard chocolate and made the blade part pop up. I had to chop the chocolate pieces into smaller pieces. And, too much chopping created very small pieces, smaller than mini-chocolate chips.
I got some chocolate-chip-ish sized pieces. And then I used this colander to try to shake out the much smaller pieces. I shook the smaller pieces down into that green bowl, and then used the long skewer to push some of the remaining small pieces through the colander holes. Now I had some chips, some very small pieces, and some chocolate dust particles.
Everything’s all cleaned up and there are a couple of bags of chocolate chip-ish things and much smaller chocolate pieces, just waiting to be part of some delicious dessert. Thanks to a couple of chocolate turkeys.