temptation

Congrats to Erica Neely, who successfully defended her philosophy dissertation yesterday!

So I made Chicken Mole a couple of nights ago, using a recipe on the back of a chocolate pasta package that Paul Kwinn gave me a long while back. Is it my imagination, or is the recipe below WRONG? (i.e. chicken should be added BEFORE simmering)



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I assumed it was wrong, so added the chicken before simmering, which made more sense. Also used some Sharffen Berger cocoa that Joey Shoji gave me. Very strange to see the tomatoes and chocolate in such close embrace, and it made me wonder: how was this recipe invented? Did someone methodically go through every ingredient imaginable to see if it partnered well with chocolate? Wish I had been around to help with the taste testing. I think.

Surprisingly, the combination of spicy and sweet turned out remarkably well. Jeff even asked for seconds, and he's pretty blunt when it comes to whether or not he likes something I've cooked. I wasn't too crazy about the chocolate pasta, but that might have been because it was somewhat stale.

Anyway, thanks so much for the gift, Paul! And apologies for taking so long to getting around to using it.

Curse you, Rachel! After you mentioned The Incredibles commercial merchandise in Blatherchat, I checked out a Disney store yesterday afternoon. For the first time in a very long while, I was actually severely tempted by movie-inspired merchandise. I drooled over the Edna mug, lusted over the Incredibles figures, especially Violet and Elastigirl. No Edna available separately, sadly, and I couldn't justify the cost of spending money on an entire mini-Incredibles figurine set just to get Edna.

Anyway, I resisted temptation and managed to walk out of the store empty-handed.

Just barely.

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