Easiest chocolate mousse

Easily almost everyone's favourite dessert, and this is easily easy to make. 3 ingredients, 10 mins and the mousse is ready to be chilled. I wanted to share this because it's so easy to make and it's, mousse! Perfect to make if you need a quick to make dessert or have a chocolate craving because it's so quick. Oh also, this has no cream and that is a big blessing. You don't need gelatin or anything.

Here's what you'll need. This makes 1 cup of mousse. So if you want more, you can do the math. :)
-1 egg
- 2 teaspoon heaps of sugar
- 1/3 cup semi-sweetened cooking chocolate cut into small pieces

Here are 2 things i'd like to say before describing the preparation method.
1. Amount of sugar is variable. Each person would have his/her own preference of sweetness. Amount also depends on the type of cooking chocolate you'd use. Sweetened or unsweetened.
2. Amount of chocolate is also variable. You can begin with 1/3 cup but if you like it more chocolatey, go for it!


Separate the egg yolk from the white. Beat the egg white to stiff peaks and keep aside. Melt the chocolate. This can be done in the microwave. Just put the cut-up cooking chocolate in a cup and microwave it for 1 minute. Now whisk the egg yolk with the sugar and then add in the chocolate and mix. It may become a little stiff if the chocolate is still warm, that's because the warmth will cook the yolk very lightly but don't worry about that.

Now add the beaten egg white. Mix thoroughly and pour into cups or glasses and leave to set in the refrigerator, which would take an hour or so. Once the hour's up, pick the glass up, spoon the mousse out and enjoy! :)

And here's what it'd look like once it's chilled. Sorry about the steel spoon though... :P

The thing about nursery rhymes....

Remember those nursery rhymes that we learned, eons ago? I remembered a few today and what struck me is that most nursery rhymes are negative and pretty destructive. Nursery rhymes are meant to be happy or to impart some sort of moral. Problem is, very few are. Most of the ones that we remember are probably the following:

1. Humpty Dumpty
2. Jack and Jill
3. Twinkle Twinkle little star
4. Baa baa black sheep
5. London bridge is falling down
6. Little miss muffet
7. Ringa Ringa roses

There are others which we would remember only if we read them again. Not stuff we can recall from memory. What's the problem with these, you ask? 5 out of 7 are sad.

Let's see... Humpty Dumpty was a shell which cracked when the poor guy fell off the wall, which could not be fixed.... Jack and Jill had a plan to get water from up the hill. Instead Jack broke his crown and Jill came tumbling after... London Bridge just FELL... Nothing would keep it up. Little miss muffet was scared away by a spider while she was peacefully eating her curd and whey. We all know, at least the girls do, how ringa ringa roses goes. All fall down at the end of it, literally. And 'ringa ringa'? Really?

Why would kids be taught these? Why can't only 'twinkle twinkle little star' or the baa baa black sheep be taught ? Makes no sense to me at least. No wonder many kids like cracking and breaking things, push other kids down or perhaps get scared by spiders. :P

And to see little kids bob their heads with sheer glee to sing a rhyme about a egg-with-legs that cracked and could not be fixed is well, just sadism. Don't you think? :)