October 2016 – The Chocolate Website

If you’re reading this on Friday, October 28th: Today is NATIONAL* CHOCOLATE DAY!

If you’re reading this after Friday, October 28th: Today is the day to belatedly celebrate NATIONAL CHOCOLATE DAY!

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Unfortunately, I will not be celebrating with these lovely chocolates (or praline or bonbons or bombones or whatever you call them!) They were rapidly devoured within minutes of this picture being taken.

My celebration is tomorrow, which may involve:

Nibmor Mint (It depends on if I have time to take pictures. The rule around here is you can’t eat it ’til after I’ve got pictures of it.) (Seriously. When I gave somebody a new chocolate without photographing it first, there were several jaws I had to pick up off the floor.)

Endangered Species Dark Chocolate with Cranberries and Almonds (Same rule applies here.)

I’m starting to see an alarming trend. All of my chocolates need photographed before I can eat them, and I may not have time. Doesn’t that sound like I need to go out and get something I’ve already tried / photographed / enjoyed (ie. BUY MORE CHOCOLATE)? (Yes. I know. You could see that suggestion coming from a mile away.)

Perhaps at the very least I will go online and admire chocolates like Rozsavolgyi Csokolade (Milk Chocolate with Carmalized Lavender Flowers) & Artisan du Chocolat Ginger and Lemongrass Chocolate from a distance.

Or perhaps there will be cookies. With chocolate. Lots and lots of chocolate. Chocolate chocolate chip cookies, to be exact. Of course cookies don’t exactly materialize out of thin air…

How are you celebrating?

(*In my book, national = whatever nation you happen to be in!)

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It’s Chocolate Week! In the UK. I’m not in the UK and have never been to the UK and maybe never will have a chance to visit the UK. But that’s ok. I have assured myself it can still be Chocolate Week. Not only that, but I’m sure it’s fine if you pretend it’s Chocolate Week too. Even if you’re not in the UK either.

Speaking of chocolate and weeks, there’s been a lot of chocolate happenings going on at my house in the past few weeks.

#1. There was that Saturday I made Oreo Truffles, Mint Thins, AND Smores Bark… all in one day.

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Yeah. That was pretty epic.

#2. Ever heard of Funny-Faced Fudge? I hadn’t either. It started out as rather normal looking fudge that was placed in the fridge to set up. (Back story: The idea was that if some semi-waxy milk chocolate the boys weren’t eating (or at least they weren’t eating as fast as they normally eat milk chocolate) was melted together with a particularly strong brand of sweetened condensed milk that it might turn into a decent fudge. Let’s just say it was edible and leave it at that.) When the pan was retrieved hours later, we were amused to find somebody had scratched a funny face into the top. Sorry, no pictures. It was evening and my no-natural-lighting picture-taking capabilities are shaky at best.

(I’m sure my brother just snorted when he read this. Fine. My no-natural-lighting picture taking capabilities are non-existent.)

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