I hope you all enjoyed the chocolate-fest of yesterday? Good; I'm pleased for you. I had hardly any. A feat of will power? No.... the shocking truth is that chocolate leaves me, if not exactly cold, then verging on tepid. I'm just not very enthusiastic about most chocolate, or even this, my childhood favourite, in any quantity.
Yes, I can have an occasional moment of yearning, like when you really want a very particular thing - "I could just fancy a curry/hot cross bun/roast beef sandwich/cheese scone...", that if gratified, may not occur again for a long time. (Notice that my taste leans towards the rather ordinary....)
Most of the chocolate I buy for Easter is a gift for other people, and as almost everyone I know is following some kind of dietary regime or other (low-cal, low-carb, wheat-free, sugar-free, pleasure-free), I have bought less this year than usual, and indeed, neighbour Sandra's family of hollow-legged boys got a large home made batch of their favourite mocha-chocolate ice cream instead of Easter eggs.
What I really like, though, is home baking......
Cheese scones and butter
Lemon drizzle cake
Black Forest cupcakes
Rhubarb and ginger
Pear, black treacle and ginger
And will power doesn't feature at all there either!
PS Photos from the archives, not today's reality, honest.
21 comments:
Mmm those cakes look amazing.
Any time you have some spare chocolate - you know the address... Just wait till I've lost that couple of stone...
"...not today's reality", whew! I thought you had gone on a baking frenzy and would need a whole new batch of clothes after eating all that.
Ooooo- all looks so yummy. Hope you are feeling better now, and had a good Easter.
Those cheese scones have really got to my taste buds... I may have to hit the kitchen...
Chocolate is an inherited thing like blue eyes, either your born with it or not. But if you do it is an addiction, chocolate and I can not live in the same house.
Cheese scones are just divine. Like Isabelle says, if you're overflowing with the choc stuff, just ask for the address.
Oh, yeh....home baking does it every time !! I baked some double chocolate espresso biscotti in lieu of icky chocolate eggs. And... earlier in the week...I bought a bar of Orange Intense Lindt chocolate to savour one tiny bit at a time.
I too like a little bit of chocolate once in a while...but, would be sick if I ate a whole bar or ate it regularly. ...
That Rhubarb and Ginger whotsit looks interesting .... a purely intellectual interest , on my part , you understand .
L-O-V-I-N !!!!!the banner bunny
tres sweet you can send your excess chocolate across les Pond s'il vous plait. xo S & les Gang
I'm a bit like that about chocolate. I'm much more of a savory lover. Cheese...stilton to be precise. However I felt obliged to eat half an egg today.
Love the header photo.
I seem to have lost my appetite for chocolate. Now there's a sentence I never thought I'd write.
Yes I'm with you - love home baking and am terrifying good at it so keep eating the product. I quite like the odd square of dark chocolate but if I had to choose between that and a really great cheese scone it would be the cheese scone every time.
Cheese scone please with lashings of butter - all melty and ooooooow, just gorgeous.
When I was thoroughly p'd off with work I would find myself in front of scones in Sainsbury's thinking: 'I could make those' - I aspired to a state of scone-making. They still represent home and warmth and nurturing for me.
If you have any going begging...
oooh, Must Have Recipe for cheese scones. Please.
It's not really that awful that chocolate doesn't do it for you — to each his or her own! (But how sad that some people think chocolate can't be part of a healthy diet...)
Stoppit! Stoppit! Showing me pictures of delicious looking baking! I have had a weekend of overindulgence, and now dare not get on the scales!
Given the choice between a chocolate and slice of fresh-baked, buttered bread I'd choose the bread. Given the choice between a slice of dense pound cake or a multi-layer Black Forest Cake I'd choose the pound cake. Give me home baking any day!
stop ! stop! I am dribbling all over my keyboard ! What lovely cakes!
Can't beat good food can you? I had a corn cob dripping in real butter for lunch.I've rarely been know to refuse chocolate unless it's white.
Any chance of you sharing the recipe for that black treacle and pear thingie?
Once you feel better, of course.
8-)
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