Chocolate Apprentice

Peppermint Chocolate

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I love chocolate peppermints.  They remind me of winter, cold noses, hands wrapped around steaming mugs of hot chocolate, Vick’s vapo-rub …

And maybe because they are “very refreshing” to quote a certain episode of Seinfeld, I never feel like an absolute glutton after eating them … just someone with really fresh breath.

On occasional winter afternoons when I was a kid, I used to buy a quarter pound of after dinner mints for about 50 cents, at the candy shop in the mall .  They were the cheapest thing on offer.  I would then sneak them into the Saturday movie matinee. [Read more…]

Peppermint and Chocolate

It really is fall.  I’m cold.  I feel the chill between my shoulder blades, which are almost permanently up around my ears, these days.  I have had to consign my cute, polka-dotted summer ankle socks to the back of the drawer and pull out my serious grey “sock monkey” wooly socks.  Yesterday, I put on the raincoat I swore I would replace this year, because it makes me look like a wrinkly pre-schooler, but haven’t because it still has “lots of good wear in it”. [Read more…]