A nice friend (HiB!) was kind .. ahem.. and got me hooked on Chocolatier games. So after playing the games for a while, I really wanted to make chocolate. It has been a while ...

So I made lots of chocolate. The material list included ~2lbs of Valrhona ( Araguani, Guanaja, and Alpcao) , ~3 cups of cream, and various flavorings. From the top left:

• Ginger Lemon
  
• Raspberry (from neighbor to my garden) Lemon
  
• Buena-Vista-Lavender (from my garden)
  
• Orange Cardamon
  

I also made tradtional truffles with Valrhona Alpaco... 1 cup local dairy cream from J + 18oz chocolate = ~80 truffles. See some work in progress twitpic for the molds and truffles.

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Yesterday I picked up a pepperoni stick at Top (grocery store). It is 2 sticks, per package. I left it on G's placemat on the counter. He discovered it later in the evening, grinned, and promptly ate one of the sticks.

me: "leave some for me!"
G: "this one is for you" (pointing to the other stick)
[fast forward to this morning]
G: "I am going to eat this other stick"
me: "er. you can have half of it if you really want. if it is still here later, you can have half of that ..."

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... a thursday like a lot of other days. Except ... so far this week. I have made:

• 1 loaf of banana bread
• 3 batch of chocolate chip oatmeal cookie dough
• 4x guacamole
• marinated feta + tomato "bruschetta"
• pizza dough (2 pizzas, or 4 calzones)
• 3 batch of deviled egged potato salad
• black berry sauce (topping for pound cake)
• brined country ribs

This is not food for our normal everyday eating. ... and there are a few days left this week.

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