ice wine & still more chocolate

Favourite thing today: sipping ice wine in front of the fire. Joel and I bought the ice wine on our bike trip this summer and managed to save it until now. It is delicious and a reminder that ice wine—which we have rarely—is one of my favourite drinks.

Lots of people mentioned chocolate. In addition to the chocolate mentioned on previous days here are (almost) all of the remaining items that involve chocolate on the five-favourite-things list.

1. Aunt Judie’s favorite food (her favourite food!) is “chocolate batter pudding”; I’m not even sure what this is. I’ll have to ask her for the recipe.

2. Maddy’s “Favorite Quick and Easy Desert”:

Fresh or Frozen Mangos in chunks (thawed if frozen)

Unsweetened Shredded Coconut

Grated Dark Chocolate

Put mangoes on the bottom, sprinkle on coconut and then chocolate. Eat and be happy!

3. One of Laura’s favourite things is: Pure Gelato for Chocolate Marsala ice cream in Ottawa.

4. And still in the category of ice cream but moving to Rome, here are Luisa’s comments: “Favourite ice cream: I am afraid this takes us to Rome. The best ice-cream place is San Crispino, via della Panetteria 42: its fruit sorbets make people laugh with joy; otherwise my favourite combination would be dark chocolate, walnut, and coffee, which is best eaten at Giolitti in via Settembrini, or Giolitti al Parlamento.”

5. And Micheline and Fraser recommend: Sea-salt chocolate.

6. And from Mira the most unusual (of course!) chocolate combo and commentary: “Favourite thing to bake to connect to the Ashkenazi Jewish people: chocolate chip "komish broit" with coconut.”

7. From Michal: Molten chocolate cake with runny inside (which I’m hoping we’ll have tonight for Valentine’s Day if I get home before 7pm). [We did make this cake and it was delicious—we have a surprisingly easy recipe from Photini and George.]

There are also Ariadne’s chocolate chip cookies which I mentioned back in the fall.

Interesting sociological observation: all the references to chocolate—the 7 here and the 4 mentioned on previous days (with the exception of Micheline and Fraser but that could be really Micheline’s observation—who knows?) come from women.