Bite me, but not too gently

[sovay]

Armed with a carton of goat's milk, some discs of Taza chocolate left over from the Halloween party, and the fact that Dave's Fresh Pasta sells Fat Toad Farm goat's milk caramel, I have made myself goat's milk salt caramel hot chocolate.

Dinner was an experiment from Amsterdam Falafelshop on Elm Street. I'd bought salad items from them, but never actually their falafel. It's delicious. Crunchy on the outside without being tooth-breaking, fragrant chickpea goodness inside. I got three in a bowl (I wasn't sure how a pita pocket would travel) and piled baba ghanoush, hummus, pickled turnips, and garlic-fried eggplant around them; the cost came to less than most sandwiches and it was an entire dinner as far as I'm concerned. Their garlic cream sauce is indispensable. I forgot to try the tahini. Next time. There'll be a next time. Possibly very soon.

I am going to drink my hot chocolate and rewatch Stephen Frears' The Hit (1984), which has John Hurt being morally ambiguous. Of such things are evenings made.

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[sovay]

but it was so spectacular that I'm almost afraid to ever have it again because I could not stop eating the damn things and I should get my nutrients from something other than caramel.

There's a company called Happy Goat that does caramels; I was given a packet in several different flavors as a Christmas present a few years ago and they vanished with extraordinary rapidity even for me. Winter Spice and Coconut Lime. I don't know where I'd get them around here. They were pretty insanely amazing.

Have a lovely evening!

Homemade hot chocolate plus excellent movie equals a very lovely evening, thank you! (Plus late-breaking coconut ice cream sandwich, because when it's cold out I eat frozen things. I also eat frozen things in warm weather, but I actively like winter ice cream. Go know.)

[yhlee]

Aha, I had mine from Big Picture Farm. I enjoy a universe in which there are multiple goat milk caramel options.

My mom has always thought me odd for liking Korean cold noodles (naengmyeon, it literally means cold noodles), which are buckwheat noodles (I think) served in beef? broth and flavored with vinegar and mustard and garnished with a bit of beef, gimchi, cucumbers, half a boiled egg, and some sliced Asian pear. I would eat it in the winter because that was when I was home from college on winter break, and the Korean restaurant people would look at me oddly, but bring it to me anyway. It's normally, as you might imagine, a summer dish. :-)

[sovay]

I enjoy a universe in which there are multiple goat milk caramel options.

Amen!

(There isn't even black tea in their chai-flavored caramels! I can eat the daylights out of those! I must locate a vendor posthaste.)

It's normally, as you might imagine, a summer dish.

Well met!