a wolf angel is not a good angel

As it turns out, chocolate chip cookies made with expensive chocolate chips are indeed very good. This is not actually a surprise.

To continue my interest in goat cheese in weird foods, today I got gelato that had goat cheese in it. (And mango, and banana, and papaya, and nutmeg), along with blood orange gelato and dark chocolate and it’s almost 30 here, no wind, very humid, so the gelato was so exactly what I wanted for lunch.

I also determined that this is the new gelato place that opened up for the summer again near me, so with luck they will have a good selection here, too. I still want to try the ginger. Actually, I want another set of the same ones I just had, again. Mmmm.

I figured out my birthday gift. I know where I’m going to dinner (Nonya, an Indonesian place, unless somewhere better comes to mind), though not when, as my birthday is on a Monday this year.

What I do not know is: what is my birthday cake going to be? I like: chocolate. I do not like: mousse, lemon, lime. (I like other things than chocolate, but I want chocolate.) Raspberries and peanut butter are out because my mother doesn’t like them. I love nuts, especially hazelnuts. I like rich. I like icing. I like orange, I like strawberry, I like apple, I like pear. My current idea is maybe a chocolate meringue pie, but I would love something more interesting.

Things I crave (an incomplete list):

• pancakes;
• cookies;
• waffles;
• bagels;
• pizza;
• challah;
• french toast;
• sandwiches;
• croissants;
• pies.

Things I don’t crave:

• matza.

I know! I will make a dessert! I think I shall make oatmeal squares. Unless I have sufficient chocolate to make this recipe I’ve been intending to make for ages. But maybe I will make *both*, because the second one requires me to wait a day to eat them. Anyone have recipes to suggest? I have most of the usual ingredients.

After going for coffee with a friend, I headed up to the Jewish bakery to pick up stuff they didn’t have. I got there a bit before 11. It was — surprisingly — packed. I could only get one roll, and they didn’t have any babka, but I got cheese danish and hamentashen. Hamentashen! I haven’t had those in ages. I avoided prune, got poppyseed, and the ever so classic raspberry jam hamentashen and custard hamentashen. I will find out shortly if those are any good or not, but most of their stuff is good. (Their rugelach is particularly good, but it’s only sold in large amounts.)

Then I went and got fresh bagels. Mmmm. Hot fresh bagels. Now I will go to sleep, because despite having napped for a few hours, I am very tired.

I just splashed myself with very hot chocolate while I was stirring it. Ouch.

But it has vanilla and cinnamon and rum in it, so I am hoping to no longer care, soon. (In part because I would like to be asleep soon.)

Today I bought both a package of Cadbury cream eggs AND a package of Caramilk eggs. Oooh, the decadence. Now watch me store them and save them for 6 months.

I also bought avocado, and black beans, so that almost balances it out.

Tonight I went for dinner (Indian! preceded by good coffee!), and it was delicious, though we ordered way too much and I am overly full. Still, I was introduced to what must be the best thing ever, chana samosa: a samosa covered with chickpeas, some kind of yogurt sauce and tamarind. Mmm. Except for the fact that the idea of food is really quite unappealing right now because I am so very full. The only problem with this place is that it’s not spicy enough.

I just made one of my favourite recipes, a chocolate shortbread with toblerone bits. Yum! Except it turned out, well, less yum. I mean, they’re pretty and all, and they’re not *bad*, just not as wonderfully delicious as they ought to be.

I haven’t baked in *weeks*. I cleaned up (partially) my kitchen for these cookies. They should not have turned out so blah. (No fair telling me about unrealistically high expectations.)

On the good side, I bought Turtles ice cream cause it was on sale.