Showing posts with label treats. Show all posts
Showing posts with label treats. Show all posts

Thursday, January 29, 2009

This recipe is much too easy


Last night, I was looking through blog posts in my Reader that I had flagged for the recipes, and when I saw this one, I realized, I actually have all the ingredients in the house! And it's an easy recipe (relevant since I don't like to start cooking at 9PM on a work night). So, why not?

Oh. So. Good.

It's not fancy, but it's simple, and it's delicious. My biggest problem with these bars is that I like them not too cold (not right out of the fridge) and not at room temp, so I keep moving the pan in and out. And actually, although the words "too much chocolate" are not ones I like to use together, I will say that I could have used less, since proportionally, it's a little too much that way. But still so good! I made a half recipe (in an 8 by 8 pan), and it's going fast. I'll definitely make this again. Thanks, Maggie!

In cat news, this new girl* is a player. I find toys everywhere, step on them in the night, and am considering hiding all the jingly ones since an event this morning half an hour before the alarm went off.

*We're trying a new name: Miri, for the miracle of how well she's settling in here. I kind of like it ... we'll see.

Harold is a casual toy-player, who will attack something for a while and then forget all about it. He will sometimes casually lie on a toy so that no one can see it, but he really loves his latest piece of plastic far more than any other item.

She threw us a toy ... have you seen it?

Toy? What toy? Nope, I haven't seen anything.

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

A Quick Starbucks Commercial

The Bruins are out west; they played in Edmonton at 9 PM EST last night (and won in OT!), and tonight it's Vancouver at 10PM EST. Good thing I'm unemployed, right? I can sleep late. (Look, it's a small bright side, but I need all I can get. Things are a little depressed around here lately.)

So in the interests of not missing the game (currently Bruins are up 1-0, yay and knock wood), I just want to tell you, if you like caramel and chocolate (well, who doesn't like chocolate?), you need to get to Starbucks and try the Salted Caramel Hot Chocolate. Like, now.


I'm usually a caramel frap' girl:


(As a friend once said to me, "That's not coffee, that's dessert," and I'm not arguing), but that hot chocolate? Seriously good. Really. Try it. You can thank me later.