Friday 16/12/2016 – It's National Chocolate Covered Anything Day – Yes!

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16 December, 2016 at 2:33 am #855005

katzenjammer
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Enjoy this Special Day by covering something…just about anything… in a generous amount of chocolate. Pour, spread, or drizzle chocolate over cakes, cupcakes, pies, pancakes or waffles, nuts, raisins…or all on it’s own!
Actually chocolate is dangerous for kits – unless they’re simply commenting!

16 December, 2016 at 6:21 am #855009

Anonymous
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Ah, chocolate….I love the tiger tabby’s OMG

We’re looking in on Friday! 🙂

Cya l8r and have a happy ~

PG
night

16 December, 2016 at 9:19 am #855011

Moonshadow_NZ
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Crossover pic –

This is what I have sitting in front of me right now. Mmmmmm I love Pocky, especially the almond pocky.

16 December, 2016 at 1:16 pm #855016

lagatta
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I love the chocolate-colour kittens and the dear little Siamese. Not so fond of chocolate except the very dark, half-bitter kind – 90% Lindt.

In general, I’d rather spend the $ € £ and calories on CHEESE. 😀

16 December, 2016 at 2:30 pm #855018

Kittyzee
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I love dark chocolate too lagatta, may have to make it a point and get some today!

I need to motivate myself to wrap gifts today. I don’t have Avery today, and feel like being a lazy bum, but since I DO have her everyday, I feel like I need to do the things that I can’t do when she is with me. I hate feeling like every moment needs to be filled with DOING something. *sigh* Okay, I’ll quit complaining. At least, the temps will be around 20* today….a heat wave.

JJ, hope you are feeling better and you can talk to your cats again. Weird thing is that sometimes, depending on the virus, they can be passed from feline to human and back again! 😳

16 December, 2016 at 3:33 pm #855019

katzenjammer
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Morning!
So many nifty things to do w/choco! I can take semi-sweet if it’s on something like fr. yogurt/ice cream, but too bitter on it’s own. And although mocha cream nicely enhances latte I’m def not choco-holic. Although Ferrero-Rocher choco can be nice.

MS, never heard of Pocky – guess it’s a Southern Hem thing? We have Turtles, guess they’re available worldwide?

Excitement at gym today. Spin class near finished when we smelled something burning!!! We alerted those in charge. There was a fire in boiler room!!! Fire Dept arrived pronto – so many guys way easy on the eye! 😉

Wouldn’t this happen on coldest day so far. Instructor gave me her towel, but thankfully as blaze was contained we were not forced outside. Would have been srsly not fun! Did get in good spin class before the “panic.”

Actually if one is dressed for it, as in I’m wearing cozy sweater over “warmwear,” there’s little wind chill, so not all that bad. Once my legs unthaw that is. Wore just finished sweater yest. Surprised how very warm even a delicate sweater with mohair in the mix is! 🙂

Mini stress at play as waiting on a paying job that I will either do or refuse to do. Guy that I worked with before he left org was a dream. Replacement has started proj 2 mos late! I have time now, but after suggesting a fee, he’s trying to dial it back and seems afraid to approach his boss with what is for me non-negotiable rate. I don’t much care as this is not a regular “gig”, but frustrates me that new guy has little sense of the work involved. Well, he has until mid pm to get back to me with confirmation or that’s that. This is part and parcel of my so-called freelancing. *Sigh*

So now to do some hazeling (weekly kitchen cleaning, actually takes like 15 mins tops.) Then Knitting Circle. Purrhaps cold will keep the “B” who dissed me last Fri from coming. If not well she’d better not start with me, as when pushed, I give back and hard. Decency is what I strive for and it’s sad when unpleasantness sets in due to the provocateur’s c**p. For sure not a deal breaker.

So anticipating Caturday, burrowed indoors and getting mega-sleep!

16 December, 2016 at 3:58 pm #855020

JerseyJoan
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OMG OMG OMG Chocolate! One of my favorite pics. I wonder why the car is covered in chocolate. Maybe one can win it by licking the chocolate off. I’d do that – it looks like a Porsche. The chocolate covered chips look good too. To me there’s nothing quite like a chocolate covered strawberry.
Lagatta, I’m a cheesehead too. Check out a thread here on TDK called “I like cheese”. Lots of recipes and fun, and it’s one of the longest threads here.
I’ve got to wrap stuff too, as well as write a few cards. I really should wise up and buy ‘winter’ cards!
I’ve never heard of Pocky either. I do like turtles – why do they call them turtles? Heh.
Wow, glad the fire was noticed before the place burned down, KJ.
Temps have dropped here in Jersey. Expecting snow later tonight that will mix and eventually turn to rain sometime later Saturday. Hubby turned on the upstairs boiler last night, as temps got a little too chilly.
The café is my place to be today! I don’t go into coughing fits as much if I don’t talk, so keyboard talk is purrfect! Of course that means not talking to the cats – they may be starting to think I’m snubbing them!

16 December, 2016 at 4:36 pm #855021

Jeankit
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TGIF with Chocolate!

Brings in tray of choco peppermint bark to share 😀

Purry update: N’bor’s lil kit Sinatra is now reunited w/meowmy after almost month on the roam! Corraled her indoors yest & called her to bring carrier & back home they went Yay!
🙂

Ok, need cuppa java & back to part 1 day 5 fun. Mwah, thanks Tux!
It’s grey/overcast – li’l warmer but expecting snow to start around 2pm and
continue thru 9 pm Sat…gaah…and it’s not even officially Winter yet 😉

16 December, 2016 at 5:11 pm #855022

Anonymous
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A heart warming story

https://gma.yahoo.com/train-conductor-saves-stowaway-cat-found-frozen-ice-181548956–abc-news-topstories.html

16 December, 2016 at 5:14 pm #855023

Anonymous
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Efurryone have a fab Friday and good weekend. I don’t have to wrap presents because the stuff the kids want are in boxes that are too big. Yea!

The next time your kits hear your voice they look at you “Do we know you?” 😆

16 December, 2016 at 5:30 pm #855024

katzenjammer
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‘Cause they’re shaped sorta like Turtles, JJ? Purrhaps.
Good that you at least feel well enough to “let your fingers do the talking.”

Guess we certainly got a “warm up” at gym! Hehehe!

JK, gr8 that Sinatra is reunited with hoomin family! 🙂

PG, I so deserve a medal too! LOL
No gifts to wrap as in not my hol. And being KJ, my Chanukiah was srsly cleaned of any leftover wax after hol ended last yr and is ready to display the pretty candles for my hol. Which (a rarity) converges as in same day as Xmas this yr.

And tks for pawsome share on railroad kit! And from my very own country as in the frozen North! 😉 Rescuer looks like a big softy teddy-bear sorta guy!

Well, lesson for KJ as pays to ask for what one wants. Getting to do project for the fee that I basically demanded. Might be desperation on org’s part, but don’t much care. They sound quite grateful. And this should keep me busy and therefore in a better state over next few wks. And it’s a nice sum and fun to work on these translations.

16 December, 2016 at 5:33 pm #855025

lagatta
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I couldn’t imagine getting my weekly kitchen cleaning done in 15 minutes! I’ve been at it for two hours already, though to be fair, I had done some cooking – food for guests or to take to potlucks. I made a freeform pie; the crust is basically like pizza dough – organic flour, bit of egg (to make it more pliable), olive oil, water, small quantity of yeast – fermented on its own with a bit of the flour as a “poolish” to add to the dough; it is filled with a mixture of goat-milk ricotta, organic eggs, a bit of stronger goat’s or ewe’s milk cheese, some spinach, some herbs and other things… the crust is folded over the filling, pleated – it is very pretty. Brushed with an egg wash.

I try to make a lot of vegetarian and vegetable-based dishes. If I’m hosting on the 24th I do a no-red-meat or poultry meal, basically Italian with some Portuguese and Slavic influences (that is, some pickled fish as well), but if people don’t eat fish there are a lot of vegetable dishes. Though I’m just as likely to host a supper on the Soltice or any day when people will have time off work; I don’t really celebrate any particular holiday.

I do clean up as I cook, but it always leaves a bit of a mess, and I’m trying to clean at least some of the pantry shelves, wash the glassware etc. It always gets dusty in cities, although the kitchen cupboards have doors.

I want to get some hand-washing done as well.

Yes, I’ve seen the cheese thread 😛 In general, I don’t like sweets very much, but do like some slightly-sweet foods such as croissants. Chocolate without any sweetener is also used in cookery, not only in traditional moles from Mexico, but also in some kinds of rye bread…

Livia decided that she wanted out despite the bitter temps, and actually spent about half an hour outside before deciding it was FAR TOO COLD. She is a shorthair – I imagine that cats such as Maine Coons, Norwegian and Siberian forest cats are better adapted to cold winter days.

16 December, 2016 at 11:54 pm #855033

AV
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Evening all! …. had a great hibachi meal out with Mr. AV, and now home to ‘chill as tomorrow is my Sabbath 🙂
Lagatta, I can’t remember what part of the globe you said you live in, but it sounds like you love to cook, as do I and many here! your freedom pie sounds delish, very similar to a quiche that I make quite often! I too have no taste for sweets, in fact, I’m to the extreme, I don’t eat chocolate, cookies, cake, puddings, ice cream yogart, and most fruits because I can’t stand the sweet flavors. I’ve been this way since childhood … I was the one in the corner with the bag of potato chips while all the other kids were eating birthday cake! LOL

Going thru all my holiday purchases, I need to keep a better list of what I’ve bought and for whom …. must be ‘fair’ to all, and make sure everyone has a little remembrance. Our family tries to get small meaningful things, not big expensive things, something that tells that person we love them.

Mr. AV and I made the executive decision tonight to get a tree tomorrow, since last year when we waited til the millennials got home, they were almost gone and we got a ‘Charlie brown tree’. …. we’ll keep it watered and fresh, and then have it ready to decorate when everyone flies in … that’s the fun part anyway 🙂

Have a great evening all! I’m trying to sleep in some tomorrow, so see you all on the flip!

17 December, 2016 at 12:43 am #855035

lagatta
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Yes, the galette or free-form pie is very similar to a quiche or other forms of vegetable tart – it is more a matter of how it is constructed than the ingredients. The filling also has to be a bit more solid. Yep, I’m like you; little taste for sweets. If I like anything “sweet” it is because I’m attracted to the butter, salt or other ingredients in it.

I live in Montréal, near the Jean-Talon Market. It is bloody cold today… Livia, my tiny black cat, awaits me in bed.

17 December, 2016 at 3:04 am #855040

AV
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Oh, my new furrbaby is an all black, and a fiesty girl!

I almost feel guilty living in Florida …… Not lol! 🙂

17 December, 2016 at 5:22 am #855042

CatWScotia
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Oh dear . . . I’d had my chocolate ration for the day, and then somehow wandered in here . . . and now I want some more!

I don’t cook with chocolate, apart from bedtime drinks. My favourite thing to do with chocolate is just – to eat it! Of course, if my fingers get covered with chocolate in the process, they’re very easy to clean afterwards.

😛

17 December, 2016 at 9:10 am #855044

Moonshadow_NZ
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MS screeches sideways into the Cafe.
I am so late but couldn’t get here any earlier, it’s been a very busy day.
Checking that I have bought the same value of gifts for the kids, finalising the menu and making sure I have all ingredients I need to create Christmas dinner. I also made two jars of pickled radishes for the first time ever. I had never heard of them until KnittingNinja mentioned them here some years back. One jar will be for Mr MS for Christmas as he loves radishes and the other jar will most likely be eaten by Mr KK as he loves pickled radishes – must be an American thing.
KJ, Pocky is I believe a Japanese snack but the pocky I buy is Sth Korean. It is thin crunchy sticks dipped in chocolate.

17 December, 2016 at 12:53 pm #855046

lagatta
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I’ve definitely seen Pocky at a nearby Vietnamese small supermarket (superette?), Marché Oriental. They also have foods from China, Japan, Korea (a bit) and other Southeast Asian countries, but alas little Indonesian – I have to go to another supermarket farther away for that. I mustn’t think of them now as they always have bbq ducks in the window – there is something that is somewhat sweet (the lacquer) that I do like.

17 December, 2016 at 12:59 pm #855048

lagatta
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Don’t feel guilty! Yes, those little black spitfire girls are feisty – and bossy! I think her bossiness is compensation for her lack of size.

Montréal is a lovely city with generally good public transport (though one of the main métro lines is overburdened now, since the extension to the large northern suburb of Laval). Just nasty winters, sometimes worse than others (very mild last year). The winters were a lot worse 40 years ago.
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