Gift wrapped and everything!!!

[wednes]

Hey, parilous

Your lovely gift arrived today.
Thank you so much for your thoughtfulness.

(I'll be sending out paper Thank You's after the wedding)


Work was fine today, though I think I'm getting sick. I took my Customer Service test and will find out tomorrow whether or not I passed. I hope I'm not too sick to care. I'd better not lose my voice or I'm gonna kick nate101000's ass for making me sick.

I made some ghiradelli brownies yesterday for cartoons. They were chocolate chip walnut and had this amazing texture like they were melting in my mouth. Man, they were good. And there's a bunch left. I will almost certainly have one later. Brownies are one of chocolate's finest applications.

Now that I'm thinking of it, what's YOUR favorite way to eat chocolate?

Comments

[leemoyer.livejournal.com]

Outdoors on the island of Capri, fresh out of the Perigina factory the day before? That's pretty great.

But for reasons of rarity and nostalgia, I'd have to go for a confection my mom made at Christmas - Chocolate pillows. Simple Hershey's chocolate slabs surrounds by sweet pastry dough. SO delicious. :)

[wednes.livejournal.com]

Sounds like.

Chocolate pillows eh? I don't believe I've ever had one.

[leemoyer.livejournal.com]

I don't think they are common. Other than my mom's I've never seen them... But what they do to ordinary chocolate is almost alchemically delish!

[wednes.livejournal.com]

You'll have to slide me a recipe. I'm always on the lookout for cool stuff to make for the winter holidays.

[leemoyer.livejournal.com]

First I'll have to get the recipe myself...

[wednes.livejournal.com]

I don't know what you're waiting for...

;-]

[ladybutterfly74.livejournal.com]

I googled Chocolate Pillows cuz that sounded interesting...and got This

Does that even seem similar to what your mom makes??

[leemoyer.livejournal.com]

Bingo!

Highly recommended. :)

[wednes.livejournal.com]

Cool. I'm gonna try them out.

[ladybutterfly74.livejournal.com]

yay!! Very good, im on it when I have a bit more time!

[leemoyer.livejournal.com]

Outstanding!

[madush69.livejournal.com]

My favorite ways to eat chocolate are many.
Here are a few...as a Sanders' bumpy cake, in a UK Milky Way Bar, as hot chocolate, chocolate rice milk, whoppers, Charleston Chew, in Keebler® Fudge Shoppe® Fudge Sticks cookies, and in the dark chocolate over orange jelly candies that they used to have at Sears candy shop when I was little.

[wednes.livejournal.com]

You just inadvertantly reminded me of Terry's Chocolate Orange.

That's quite a selection.

Did you see I took my CS test today?
I find out tomorrow if I pass.

[madush69.livejournal.com]

You'll ace it!

[madush69.livejournal.com]

Oh, and as Little Debbie Swiss Cake Rolls.

[groovesinorbit]

Well, brownies are an excellent way to eat chocolate. Then there's ice cream, chocolate cake with mocha frosting, truffles, hot chocolate ... really, is there a bad way to eat chocolate?

Oh, and keep your eye on the mail. You might be getting something else in a few days. ; )

[wednes.livejournal.com]

I forgot about truffles. Truffles are awesome.

Okay, I'll keep an eye out.

[lickingtoad.livejournal.com]

I second the chocolate orange, but I also love those bagged circular truffles whose name escapes me -- I'm no further than fifteen feet from them at work, and I c ... Lindt. Yum-frickin'-yum.

[wednes.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I usually grab a few of those when I go to Borders.

[wednes.livejournal.com]

Nice.

[sexyrockgoddess.livejournal.com]

Mmm i love chocolate soy milk & i love grating dark chocolate over soy cream, or melting it. I love these mocha rice dream ice cream bars that are dark chocolate dipped with mocha ice cream & oatmeal cookies. YUM!

[wednes.livejournal.com]

Chocolate and rice to go well together. Those rice dream bars are surprisingly tasty.

[eroslane.livejournal.com]

ErosLane Phun Phact: The Prince of Bitter Rhetoric does not care for chocolate anything. Meh.

[wednes.livejournal.com]

Are you allergic, or just a communist?

[diachrony.livejournal.com]

Recipe, please. I mean for the brownies you made that melt in the mouth. And please include the helpful Wednes tips that ensure such melt-in-mouthiness. ;)

I like my chocolate dark and gourmet, generally from chocosphere.com and as dark as I can get it. But that's in bars. Baked choccies ... I love choc-chip cookies with *lots* of chocolate, and chocolate chocolate-chunk cookies. And chocolate-filled croissants. Warm them just a couple seconds and the chocolate melts inside the croissant and it's the most delicious, messy thing to eat. ::licks fingers::

[wednes.livejournal.com]

I used to eat chocolate croissants when I worked for Whole Foods, that an almond filled. Mmmmm.

The brownies were Ghiradelli (brownie mix with walnuts) straight from the box. Then I added 1/2 cup cake flour, 1/4 cup sugar, 1/4 cup dutch process cocoa, 1/4 extra oil (I think the package calls for 1/3 cups), 2 extra eggs, a handful of semi sweet chips, and a smallish plop of sour cream. Mix and bake like usual, about 12 mins longer than it calls for.