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11 May 2004 - Repent, Sinner!
I feel as though I've sinned. Or that I'm a dirty little traitor. Or perhaps I am just weak...very, very weak. I was recently exposed to something great and all powerful. Something both beautiful and at the same time, so utterly disgusting that you can't turn from it. It was similar to driving past a motor vehicle accident on the highway...you can't help but slow down, look and become a part of it in some small way. It has sucked me in and all I want is more, more, more! A few weeks ago S. took me to Highland Farms to do a bit of grocery shopping. Then we went back again...and shopped some more. And I want to go again and again and again. I can't help it! I want more Highland Farms! I want the huge aisles. I love the vast array of choices. I drool over the European products that you can't find anywhere else, like the '00' brand flour and the Ghirardelli cocoa powder and the entire aisle of "ethnic" products (I actually bought Tamarind paste!) that just isn't available at your average, everyday grocer's. It was with love and adoration that I slowly walked through this massive store. Touching, smelling, looking -- pretty much driving S. crazy with how slowly we were progressing though a store that was the size of a small European city. Of course when he found a cereal he'd never seen elsewhere he simply had to buy a box of each flavour...how he's going to eat three boxes of cereal before I want (NEED!) to go back is beyond me. Then in the produce aisles he insisted we buy Asian eggplants. Asian eggplants. WHAT AM I GOING TO DO WITH THOSE??? It was there, ensconced in this gigantic box filled to the brim with products and produce I simply couldn't say no to, that I found some truly delicious chocolate. Lindt dark chocolate, sold in a big bar, in the baker's section, no less. I know I can buy this chocolate in other stores, but can I also find muscovado sugar and real vanilla extract within mere feet of it? Bringing it home I had to find something delectable to make with it...chocolate this good doesn't just get eaten (well, some of it did), it doesn't go into something that will mask its taste and it certainly doesn't sit in the cupboard, feeling lonely (although it would be in wonderful company with the Ghirardelli cocoa, I think). Nigella to the rescue, once again. With these gorgeous, light, little Dense Chocolate Cupcakes...ohhhhhh...it feels so good to be bad.
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