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The best thing about my new blog is definitely the title. I love chocolate and I love garlic, but no, not together!
I like dark, bitter chocolate. In Germany, after college, I discovered something called Herrenschokolade in a black wrapper. I bought it because I liked the idea of being a 22 year old girl eating something labeled Herrenschokolade. However, I kept eating it because I liked it. When I lived in the Bay Area, I got excited about Scharffenberger chocolate which was also quite bitter. These days I just go with the cheaper 70% Ghiradelli that one can pick up anywhere. My guilty secret is the enormous bag of chocolate chips standing open in my pantry. Someone asked the other day whether eating chocolate doesn’t bother my little nursling. My steady progress through the 5 lb bag suggests it doesn’t.
I also like garlic. One of my prouder accomplishments is that I’ve learned to cook very good pasta dishes. Although pasta dishes are my favorite, I seldom order it out, because I can usually do better at home. Woo! Anyway, I have always liked garlic. But growing up, my acquaintance with garlic was through garlic salt and garlic powder. I thought I was really gourmet when I moved to the bottles of minced garlic. Now, I can’t imagine life without a garlic press and the pleasure of newly smashed garlic cooking in olive oil.
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Garlic scares me. I am still substituting garlic powder in anything that calls for garlic. I just don’t know how you’re supposed to cut it up and use it!