Chocolate pâté

The origin of this dish comes from Shannon’s childhood and her grandad. Shannon has great memories of her Puppy, her father’s father, going to the Preston market and buying slabs of dark chocolate in bulk. Once home, he’d use a hammer to break the chocolate into bits and put it between bread with olive oil and salt and that would be lunch. He never made it into pâté, and Shannon didn’t realise it was a Spanish thing. She just thought it a bit of an eccentric Puppy thing to do, but then, after cooking and travelling in Spain, she tasted the real deal and realised Puppy had obviously had it before and just made a weird ghetto Aussie version for her. It’s really a shame he's not alive to see this book or recipe come to life. This one’s for you, Puppy.