chocolate addiction...

[tielan]

I may have a slight addiction to buying chocolate/caramel things. Not eating them, mind, just buying them!

Current chocolate/caramel inventory:

• a block of 60% Cocoa Dark Couverture from the Chocolateria San Churro
• a block and a quarter of Lindt 70% Cocoa
• 7 Lindor balls
• 3 chocolate covered marzipan sticks each wider than my thumb and longer than my middle finger,
• a choc-covered turkish delight (last of a packet of 12)
• a choc-covered salted caramel (last of a packet of 12)
• eight butter caramels
• a mars bar
• a snickers bar
• a couple of caramlized pistachios rolled in praline cream and fine cocoa powder from Max Brenner
• a block of Valrhona Caraibe chocolat noir (66% cacao)
• a Cadbury creme egg

So three (the turkish delight, salted caramel, and pistachios) are on their last legs. But the others are still either unopened or I've only had one or two of them.

Must stop buying chocolate...

Comments

[skieswideopen]

I'm envious of your ability to have chocolate around and not eat it. Any chocolate I have is inevitably gone in a day or two.

[tielan]

Chocolate is one of those "a little goes a really long way" things for me.

I get little cravings for it - or, more specifically, I get cravings for the really good stuff, which then results in me buying nice chocolate, having a piece or two, and then deciding I don't want any more.

And then it takes forever to finish the block.

[skieswideopen]

That's not a terrible way to be! Chocolate keeps pretty well.

[tielan]

But it does get a little problematic when you never finish chocolate before it gets the cocoa bloom on it...

[skieswideopen]

Well, maybe. Since you're buying the expensive stuff.