Tag Archive: chocolate

Can I just start using the WWA abbrev for “what we ate”?  Seems an easy swap.  Continuing the catch up posts… I sliced up a few pieces of this grain free bread with Earth Balance for breakfast time. More pancakes for my minis. They ate sooooo slowly, I baked chocolate mini muffins for P’s classmates while they finished up. There are 18 in his class, but I made a bunch of extras to freeze and have on hand for future birthday parties.  He picked out chocolate cupcakes for his birthday treat, but blueberry cake for his… Read more >

Warning: if you haven’t had anything sweet recently, this post may cause drooling. Let’s start off with a favorite. TCHO is just such good chocolate, both in quality and flavor.  Some bean to bar chocolate is too rough for my liking, but this stuff is stellar.  It’s organic and fair trade too.  It went on sale a month back and I bought the max (8) that they allowed and have been slowly opening them.  The sea salt and almond is my favorite so far.  The cappuccino is also fantastic if you like coffee flavored chocolate…. Read more >

I’ve been putting off writing this post because there’s a sense of closure that comes with it. In December, we bottled the last of my grandpa’s grapes. [This is a side project that my dad and his friend do – not the Zin that is sold in stores that the vineyard grapes usually go to] As tricky as it is bringing two toddlers to a garage full of equipment for bottling wine, I really wanted them to have some memories of this.  P got to go to the vineyard a few times, but V only… Read more >