A while ago, we signed up for a service called Shoshbox that delivers a monthly shipment of Japanese candy. It's since merged with Tokyo Otaku Mode, and we've upgraded to a larger box size, but it's nice every month to get a shipment of candy even if a lot of it isn't to my taste. The gum goes to softlykarou, as do some of the more cracker-like snacks, and ( Read more... )

I know we do a lot of chocolate from Raaka, but hear me out. Part of it is just because I have a chocolate subscription from them, so we get a lot of chocolate already, and I do try to mix things up. This week, though, there's a reason why we did this particular bar.
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I used to drink a lot of coconut milk. That drinkable kind that came in milk cartons, because I don't like cow milk that much despite how much I like cheese and yogurt. I think it stems back from when I broke my leg. Before then I could drink pretty much whatever I wanted as long as it was fruit juice or water--no pop in our household--and after, ( Read more... )

This is another one of the weeks where we go back through the bag and pick out one of the chocolate bars we've meant to do for a while and eat it before it comes completely bad. Only somewhat bad. I knew intellectually that chocolate could oxidize and get brittle and taste a bit off, but before I started buying chocolate specifically for Darker ( Read more... )

So last time I posted a Darker than Black entry, ccamfield expressed astonishment that I was writing about chocolate that he would actually want to eat! I mean, isn't this called "Darker than Black"? Shouldn't this be about chocolate that curdles milk if placed within 10 yards, that travelers keep in their pockets to ward off the evil eye, and that which ( Read more... )

This will be slightly shorter than the usual Darker than Black because I just wrote five and a half thousand words about video games. But I haven't done this in two weeks and wanted to get back into the the habit. Of writing, I mean. I never got out of the habit of eating chocolate ( Read more... )

Time to work through our backlog!

That's not the only reason we picked this chocolate, though. Tonight at sundown marks the beginning of Rosh Hashanah, the Head of the Year. We had a party last night with a ton of food prepared by softlykarou, and among the choices she made for ingredients were pomegranate seeds. There's a lot of reasons for this, any or all ( Read more... )

Last week softlykarou brought home a sesame-based dessert from Golden Pacific, so I called off Darker than Black in favor of delicious bean paste. This week we return to the world of dark chocolate with something I should have gotten to a long time ago.
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This week's chocolate is a special order. A week or so ago, I got an email from Raaka about a limited edition chocolate they had just in time for fall. The pumpkin spice of chocolate, I guess, except that while I've never been huge on pumpkin spice mostly because I don't like the majority of the foods it's used in, I love chocolate and I love ( Read more... )

softlykarou picked this because right now her stomach is hurting from accidentally eating some ranch-flavored pretzels.

A few weeks ago, we went to Xoco for lunch when I took the afternoon off. You order at the counter and then they bring your food to you, and because of that, they also sell cups and various paraphernalia up front. There's no way I'm buying ( Read more... )