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Birthday Confessions of a Chocolate Mainliner

Sun, 2010-03-07 17:30

So over the decades I’ve slowly graduated from Hershey’s-style milk chocolate to progressively stronger and stronger, darker and darker kinds.

Towards the end of last year a local boutique chocolatier started making some (very tasty) 91% varietal chocolates that were… pretty darn good.

So about two weeks ago I was out of all the good stuff. And I wondered to myself…

How would plain old Baker’s unsweetened taste?

Turns out it’s pretty good.

Awfully strong in the theobromine department, so you can’t eat that much without getting “overcaffeinated.” But minus all the cheap sugars and flavorings and such that goes into cheap sweetened chocolates it’s pretty darn good.

I realize it’s taken (inadvertent) years to get to this point so I don’t recommend jumping into it. And I seriously don’t recommend giving it, or any other 100% chocolate, as a gift to anyone else.

Note: I’m not about to give up half-and-half cream in my coffee.

1. Chocolate or Whipped Cream

Fri, 2008-06-13 10:06


Photo by Flickr user {axom}. Used under a Creative Commons license.

Amorous Rocker of Not Your Average Chick found a meme that looked like fun from Another Suburban Mom so I thought I’d give it a whirl. But rather than answer them all in the usual twenty-five words or less way (though hmm, maybe a few answers will be 25 words or less) I thought I’d do each as a separate post. We’ll see how that works. And so…

1. Chocolate or Whipped Cream:
That’s always a fun question. First of all given a choice if I was going to lick anything off of you my first choice would always be, well, you! Next, if I could cheat just a little, would be not chocolate exactly but pure cocoa butter — it feels wonderful going on, it melts right at body temperature, as long as you’re not allergic it won’t irritate your skin or any other parts, it smells wonderful in a more subtle-than-chocolate way that I think goes well with your natural scents, it feels wonderful, creates just the perfect combination of friction and slide for pressure in… places where that can feel very nice.

If I had to pick from just the two, though, my second choice would still be a nice, not-too-hard chocolate that at least if it was me I’d want to use on you, or me for that matter, the same way as cocoa butter. Warmed to almost skin temperature and then slowly, sensuously crayoning impossibly thin, fragrant, sweet layers on each other and then stroking or kissing or licking it off.

And either way I don’t see using it chocolate-syrup-like in the usual places do you? I’m thinking tracing… almost massaging muscles of the shoulders and, especially, neck. Of the soles of your feet, the muscles of the calf and the large tendons over the soft flesh of the inner thighs. And always, always, followed almost instantly by soft fingers, firm palms, wet kisses, or warm breath.

And if all this talk of this gentle chocolate play sounds a little, err, vanilla? Well of course, the alternative is whipped cream. Which, when not too, um, sweet, has an allure of its own.

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