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| Reading | | The Mermaid Chair, Sue Monk Kidd | | I enjoyed The Secret Life of Bees. This was eh. | | Watching | | The Office (US) | | Specifically, the last five minutes of the season finale. Over... and over... and over again.
*SWOON* | | Listening | | The Happy Bullets | | Oh-so-good. Since I got this album, I have, without fail, awakened to "Good Day!" already residing in my head. Good stuff, that.
| | Obsessed With... | | The Comics Curmudgeon | | The comics are, by definition, supposed to be funny. But sometimes they're not. And when they fall short, Josh is there to snarkily (yes, it's a word) make fun of their shortcomings. Which is funny. And thus, brings it around full circle to make things right with the world. |
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| May 19, 2004 | | CHOCOLATE ALERT | While in New York, we visited a small chocolate shop in Soho called MarieBelle. It was during an amazing thunder and lightning storm, and the cozy shop was a welcome refuge. We ordered hot chocolate, and what they brought to our little bistro table was something I have never experienced before.
Calling it "hot chocolate" does it a disservice as those two words conjure images of paper envelopes containing a powdery brown substance dotted with shriveled marshmallows. This stuff wasn't a beverage. It was an experience. I chose the Aztec Dark Original and it was beyond rich and creamy; it was damn near a pudding. And the chocolate. Oh, the chocolate! It was 73% cacao, people (for reference, a Hershey bar is 22% cacao). It tasted like a melted chocolate bar, steamed and whipped into a beverage.
I bought a can of the Aztec Spicy variety to take home. When I opened the can, I realized why it tasted like a melted chocolate bar. THERE WERE CHOCOLATE PIECES IN THERE. Like, full-on CHOCOLATE PIECES in the HOT CHOCOLATE. The directions say, "If chocolate pieces do not melt completely..." I'm pretty sure the Quik Bunny doesn't offer a caveat should chocolate pieces not melt in its formula derived entirely of dehydrated brown crayon shavings (snob much? YES.).
Granted, I had to use fat-free milk because that's what we drink in our house and my version wasn't whipped or steamed, but it still made a fine hot chocolate.
Too hot for hot chocolate you say? Well, then, if you put it in the refrigerator IT MAKES MOUSSE.
DAMN that's some good chocolate. | |
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