HealthiaCynthia

Naughty Nosh

Filed under: Health & Wellness, chocolate, Honey, Naughty Nosh by healthiacynthia on March 18, 2008 2:41 pm

Last night my dear husband came home with a 1/2 bar of chocolate (he had consumed the other half).  He handed it to me and waited for some endearisms to fall from my lips.  I dutifully took a bite and recoiled– but inwardly, I don't want him to STOP bringing home chocolate (like he stopped bringing home flowers when I was negligent about making huge fusses).  This chocolate was BiTTER.  Ew.  Like chewing on a coffee bean.  Like accicentally taking a big ol' bite out of your mother's cooking chocolate (yes, my addiction started way back then).

Yes, yes, yes, I know that the darker the chocolate, the healthier, right?  This was dark and organic and about 90% cocoa.  As they say in the comics, p-tooey.  ychh.

So, he went to do his evening thing and I did my evening thing, and the chocolate sat unmolested in its wrapper for hours and hours… an unknown event in this house.

This afternoon I was feeling peckish, looking for something sweet, longing for some real chocolate, smooth and sweet.  My eyes lit on my jar of raw Wildflower Honey, local ambrosia like no other honey you have ever tried (sorry, the "girls"– what the beekeeper calls her bees– will not be producing any more like it again until October).  Hmm.  And because my mind moves fast in such matters, I was suddenly grating (just like mom did with her Baker's Chocolate) the bitter bar into a bowl.  Then I took a large tablespoonful (okay, I didn't measure– could have been two) of honey and mixed them together.  Now, that was more like it.  I also stirred in a little organic peanut butter (about 1/2 teaspoon) and a 1/2 teaspoon of sunflower seeds.

Totally satisfying, delicious, sweet, and probably extremely healthy.