I was in awe at her creativity. The ingenuity of combining spices and chocolate was unheard of back then. I wanted to meet the person who created those wonderful morsels of chocolate that was cleverly packaged in a white Chinese take-out container wrapped with a pretty purple ribbon and chopsticks. Now I live down the street from one of her boutiques!! I haven't met her yet, but someday soon via the hubby.
The children and I stop in for the caramel marshmallows when ever we walk that way (almost twice a month). I would love to work for her too. I don't know what I'd do, but come on who wouldn't want to work with the woman who made the daring leap of making chocolate and spices chic?!?
Yes, I have forgotten to report about Jimmy and Sandra regarding the National Bread and Pastry Championship, but that was because I was busy being addicted to (fluff)friends on face book. (There the first step is admitting it!)
Team Burns/MacMillan placed third! Yay! Woo Hoo! Good job guys!
Team Peemoeller/ Abdullah won first and team Salazar/ Mora won second. Great job everyone.
It was not an easy competition, I can't imagine or want to be any of the competitors. Two days of non-stop cooking and creating. It was crazy for us, I'm sure it was crazy for everyone else too. The day before,we were driving around Philadelphia and Atlantic City trying to find a grocery store or any store that would have replacements for ingredients and tools that didn't make it. Just so you know, there are no grocery stores in Atlantic City, just little convenience stores. Jimmy didn't even sleep the night before because he was up scaling the rest of his ingredients and with the assistance of the babies! The kids just would not leave him alone and they were too excited to sleep.
Atlantic City, to me, screams salt water taffy...so we had to stop in James' Candy Shop and a few other candy stores. I highly reccomend James' taffy and fudge! They are by far the best I've ever tasted in my life (and I've eaten a ton of candy in my time...lots of cavities to prove it!). The taffy is incredibly soft, rich and oh so delicious! We bought the regular, the filled, the dipped and some English butter taffys along with the maple fudge and chocolate fudge. I'm already wanting more and wished that we bought more fudge, but seriously we bought three pounds of taffy and one pound of fudge...we probably looked a little crazy doing so.
On the way out we stopped at It Sugar because the decor caught our eye and bought more candy! I justify it by saying it was Kai's turn...he picked out a mega swirly lollipop, mini M&Ms and a helicopter toy/sucker.
0 comments:
Post a Comment