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9 Large Eggs, separated
1 Cup Sugar
Either 12 oz SWEET cooking chocolate (broken up) OR semisweet chocolate chips (easier, and not a big difference in taste)
1 1/2 sticks of butter
1 Tablespoon plus 2 teaspoons orange liqueur (if you don't have it, you probably won't miss it)
2 Cups chilled heavy whipping cream
1/4 Cup Confectioner's sugar
1 single chocolate bar (for garnish)
Preheat oven to 350 degrees and butter an 8 inch springform pan.
Melt butter and 1/2 cup sugar and stir in chocolate until it melts. Lightly beat egg yolks and 1 tablespoon orange liqueur with a fork and add to the chocolate/butter/sugar mixture.(make sure the chocolate mixture isn't too hot). Set aside.
Beat egg whites with the other 1/2 cup sugar until peaks form. use electric beater.
Gently fold the chocolate mixture into the eggwhites with a spatula (about a quarter of the chocolate mixture at a time–don't overmix–there might be some small white streaks left–that's ok.)
Pour HALF of this mixture into the springform pan, and bake approximately 25-30 minutes in preheated oven. (It will get high, but when it comes out and cools, will fall–it's supposed to–basically it is flourless chocolate cake). Cool.
Meanwhile, for the mousee part, beat 1 cup whipping cream with 2 teaspoons orange liqueur and 2 tablespoons confectioner's sugar until thick. Gently fold this into the remaining UNCOOKED chocolate mixture.
When the flourless chocolate cake part is cool, spread the mousse on top.
Then, beat the remaining 1 cup whipping cream and two tablespoons confectioner's sugar until thick, and spread on top of the mousse layer.
To decorate the top, make chocolate curls by using a potato peeler on the side of the chocolate bar.
Thank you!!
Come on people, I'm nosy. I want to know the daftest accidents you've had. 
A couple of years ago, I was at a friends' house making soup. She handed me the potato peeler, warning me that it was very sharp. I mean, this really was a beast of a potato peeler. it was practically industrial-sized. still, I took my first slice at the potato, and noticed that it had turned red. Puzzled, I looked at my finger and saw that I had sliced the top off it, and blood was pouring down my wrist. Strangely, it didn't hurt, but my friend panicked and drove me to a and E with the rest of my finger pumping blood into a tea towel.
Once there, they injected some local anasthetic and tidied the rest of my finger up a bit. all the time my finger was bandaged, people would ask what I did, and I would have to mumble:
"Potato peeler", and walk off leaving them puzzled.
Share your funny stories!
I have three from the time I worked in a flooring warehouse.
1) I was cutting an expensive roll of decorative carpet, and since the cut had to be very precise, I had a very sharp, oily blade. when I rolled up the carpet and wrapped some tape around it, I balanced the rug on my knee and sliced the tape. The blade hit my leg. I looked at my pants and there was a hole. I looked in the hole and saw that I gave myself a new mouth, and it was making a sad face. it took 17 stitches and a cardiac specialist to shut it because my 17-year-old self was raging with hormones and the skin was tight as a snare drum.
2) I threw a roll of carpet padding onto a trailer, and the top came down, smashed my head between it and the floor of the trailer, and it broke my nose in two places from the inside out. The doctor said it crushed my head like an orange.
3) I got a good lashing from a 500 lb. nylon rope that snapped when my co-worker and I were trying to use a forklift to pull out a roll of carpet that had gotten buried under several other rolls. If I didn't have a wallet in my pocket, I'd be dead. Not really, but I would've wished I were. it broke skin and left a nasty bruise.
I got my index finger stuck in the steering wheel while at a drive through. Needless to say, I freaked out when I noticed it start to turn purple and the fire Department had to be called to assist in the removal process. Thankfully, the Jaws of Life wasn't used and I wasn't put in the paper.
I was running to catch my ride after work, my clip-on bow tie fell off and I turned and tried to catch it while running, slipped and went feet-first into the air and made a one-point landing on my hand, breaking my wrist. I guess that counts as silly…
I asked to look after the school hamster for the holidays. I stuck my finger in it's cage to see if it 'bites', it did. I had to go to casualty for a tetanus.
I took my dog for a walk, she saw a collie dog she took an instant dislike to and pulled me really hard, I dislocated my shoulder and broke my wrist while watching her have her wicked way with the collie dog.
A friend and I were leaving a local pub, and as we were walking … we found an old shopping cart. well, I get the bright idea that it'd be fun to go for a ride, with my friend pushing the cart.
It's NOT a good idea to have your drunk friend push you in a shopping cart .. down-hill, and in high-heels. Face-plants REALLY hurt. 
Fell through a shop window in the town centre and ended up with 10 stitches in my behind
I have a wealth of them..most not involving me, but things I saw. The worst to happen to me was wrestling with my dog. His paw nail sliced my eye lid…and I had to walk in to my base hospital Emergency to get it fixed. took a long time before the Nurses stopped teasing me…
Sigh.
Last year I was out in the garden, at night, slightly drunk, and I was shooting at stuff with an air gun, a pellet jammed, and when I was trying to fix it I accidentally pulled the trigger, the cocking arm snapped up onto my hand… as soon as it happened I ran into the bathroom coz the pain was so bad I thought I was going to be sick, and when I got into the light my fingers had turned white and blue and were bleeding… I managed to get my rings off just in time as my fingers swelled up really quickly, then I went back out to get help and nearly fainted with the pain and shock!
I broke my fingers but I couldn't get to hospital as I live in the country and everyone was drunk, so I just had to sit with my hand in ice cold water and drink as much as I could to numb the pain.
The moral of the story is, never go out shooting while drunk and stoned in the dark… or get an air gun with a safety catch!!
Just thought of another one – you know the press ups where you balance on your hands and hold your body horizontal without your feet touching the ground? well, I tried to do them drunk on a pool table… needless to say my arms gave way and I split my chin on the edge of the pool table!
When i was a young boy i caught my little squid in my trouser zip… good god that hurt and was so embarrassed..
Ran into a lampost, funny thing was I sitting on the kerb leaning against the lampost & got up to run & BANG…. head first & knocked out.
Another stupid accident was me walking along a fence & my Mum warning me not to, I didn't listen because I was in hospital again with my legs in stirups being stitched up!!!
Haha. I jumped off a childrens climbing frame (at about 14) and got a leg hooked in the lowest bar. i went slammign head first into the floor – luckily i put my arms out in time and fracutured a small bone in my right arm ^^
Good times, Good times.
I once demonstrated my ability to kick above head height to try to impress a girl. My other foot slipped and I crashed to the floor, sustaing a sprained wrist. Boy did I feel silly.
And the girl' needless to say, was less than impressed.
I stuck a piece of blu-tack up my nose and ears whrn I was 4. I got the idea off of the film 'little vampire.'
i was out with my mates one night and i was really drunk… more so than i normally get.
i decided that it would be funny to try and show off my best pole dancing efforts, i jumped to grab the nearest lamp post and started swinging on it like an idiot…
needless to say i fell off the post and quite badly smashed my arm open….
ok then here we go. when i was young i had 2 silly accidents: first one, i had a climing frame and the firemans pole thing that hung in the middle had broken off and there was a peice of wire dangling down (you can guess whats coming cant you?) anyway there i was dangling from the top inside the climbing frame watching this peice of wire swinging left and right judging the right time to let go. as i did the wire swung back and cut me just on my right eyebrow and left a lightning bolt cut (ive still got the scar nearly 20 years on!) i was screaming in pain and my sis gave me a piggy back ride all the way to the docs. second one was stupid, i was playing in the garden while mum was washing up, she had a habit of using domestos bleach to clean the cups if they were very grubby. i came rushing in, saw my fave orange plastic cup grabbed it said 'thanks mum' thinking she had done me a drink gulped it down before she could shout 'NO!' seconds later i was in the loo barfing, my dad took me to a and e and was made to drink a pint of milk there and then and a pint of milk when i got home before i went to bed. theres loads more but i wont bore you any more.
I fell into a manhole with no lid and broke my leg. I'm actually still in a lawsuit about that one.
This past October I was finishing cutting my lawn, as I stepped onto the cement, tripped, fell and split my knee open. Couldn't stop the bleeding, drove to Emergency 'cause my doctor was closed. Thought people were going to faint when I walked in with my Levi's bloody from the knee down.
tried to open a bag of frozen veggies with a knife, and sliced the very tip of my pointer finger right through my fingernail. still have the scar, but healed nicely.
I went sledging 2 days on the trot.
First day i had loads of crashes and should have been hurt, not a scratch.
Second day step out out the car, fell over and woke up in casualty.
getting out of the car to go to a friends house, my dad turned to me and said 'ill turn the car around while you go in,'
i thought he said 'i'll turn the car around afteryou've gone in,'
so i went on my merry way, not expecting the car to move and not looking for traffic on my friends silent 6 house cul-de-sac.
its as i go to cross in front of the car that it begins to move – suddenly my foot is under the car.
the woman in casaulty asked me did the person come back to see if i was alright – how she laughed when that same person said sheepishly 'well as her father i would have felt a bit bad if i didn't'
i jumped over a stick suspended from a tree ,landed awkwardly and broke my ankle
drank too much and pee-d outside of the restroom!! haha.. it's funny now, but it sure wasn't funny then!!
Jumped off a garage roof when 10 and hurt my knee……!!!
One new years day I had work so I didnt drink the night before, anyway upon getting up I came downstairs and jumped the last step, shattering my kneecap! No-one belived me that I was sober and not hungover
Friend's boyfriend knocked me down at a rollerskating rink. I was wearing a long skirt that limited my ability to "fall" the way I usually would in pants. He landed on me and made my fall worse; sprained my wrist (well, the doc said it was fractured.) it was a lot of fun explaining how this happened, and why I went straight to work and worked with it for a couple days before going to the ER about it when some people at church saw how messed up it looked. well, I was very upset with my friend, and didn't want to miss work, even though I had to miss the rest of the party! so I waited till a day off. 
i jumped on a box 
sprained my ankle
For (bulk) home-preparation, storage, and use, is orange zest and other citrus -zest better baked/dried or frozen in the freezer?
One solution I've seen I found here:
answers.yahoo.com/question/index?…
Which is basically just cutting the very outer peel (the zest, as much as possible, not the pith) into /strips/, and then putting the result into plastic, and then that into aluminum foil, and then that into the freezer.
The other two describe a similar process only with a zester, paaring knife, microplane, /or/ peeler.
wikihow.com/Prepare-Fresh-Cit…
This describes several days' air-drying before dark, airtight storage.
This one really isn't much of an option for me at this point because we have a number of fruitflies hanging around the house, and I don't want to give them a reason to stay for the winter, BUT if there's a reason this method is preferred please say something so I can make arrangements.
grouprecipes.com/20041/orange…
Finally, this one describes baking on a silicon pad, in a baking pan, or in/on "release" foil before again implementing unlit and airtight storage.
I'm soon going to come by a mortar and pestle, which means that I would be able to crush-up the dried stuff with ease if I went with one of the drying routes, but I'm most focused on the flavour and longevity of the zest.
I have a number of recipes including soups, sweets, stirfries, and breads in my binder which call for it.
Thanks for your recommendations, folks,
Stay close to your food,
Shop smart and shop local.
Cheers.
