I think I just might do that, ita. I think you should have a massage just before the training, one on the separating weekend, and one right after.

I'd be happy to test the cupcakes for you, if you want.

And I swear I've never seen Dutch processed cocoa in the stores. Unless it's the default process.

It's not default. It would say it on the tin.

I think you should have a massage just before the training, one on the separating weekend, and one right after.

I'll get right on winning that lottery, then. God, I have to work out how to exercise for the middle week too. I hate this new schedule.

It's not default. It would say it on the tin.

Its appearance in recipes far outstrips its appearance in the stores. Not fair.

And I swear I've never seen Dutch processed cocoa in the stores. Unless it's the default process.

Hershey's European Style is Dutch processed, and it's in every store I've been in. (It's not the best quality cocoa in the world, but does in a pinch.)

Droste is one of the other common brands of it.

Still, I suspect the chocolate cupcakes will turn out quite okay.

mmm.. cupcakes. Are these the ones in this months CI?

Hershey's European Style is Dutch processed, and it's in every store I've been in.

I gotta admit, I don't look at the Hershey's. Still -- I thought I'd have noticed. Droste, huh? I'll keep an eye out for that.

Are these the ones in this months CI?

Ayup.

I gotta admit, I don't look at the Hershey's. Still -- I thought I'd have noticed. Droste, huh? I'll keep an eye out for that.

I don't think most of the Dutch processed brands have it in big letters. I like the stuff for hot chocolate (it mixes better with liquids, and the reduced acidity makes it nice and mellow), so I've been seeking it out for years.

Well, today I slept way too late.

Then I went and washed my car, bought these shoes on sale. You can all recover from your faint that they are not black now. Of course this means that I still need to find a pair of black shoes. Then I drove around through various neighborhoods and had a weird deja vu, except it really wasn't. It was how I'd pictured neighborhoods "back east" when I was little. Anywho, then I hit the catfood place and stocked up, hit mcdonalds for emergency rations, went grocery shopping, came home and baked one batch of chocolate espresso cookies, another of ginger cookies, weatherproofed my new shoes, weatherproofed my old ones, washed the stove and teapots and now I'm sitting here listening to Emmy Lou and thinking I should eat, since the nuggets and fries that I bought from the dollar menu at 4 weren't really a lot of food (I had to eat or I would have cried. Ah blood sugar.) Now wasn't that exciting. Just what you all wanted to know.

Laundry is tomorrow. And maybe some more driving around. I have a $100 target card...and I haven't even spent the last $10 on the one from christmas.

Forgot to pick up tax forms and discovered that because my bank merged in the past couple of years and lost the old name up here, I can't automatically reorder checks from them. With 9 left, this is annoying. If you don't go through your bank, what do you have to have in order to get it from some other place ? (oh, I'll look in the sunday paper. Always has stuff there.)

I really ought to eat something.

Adorable shoes (even with the wedge heel). Am very jealous.

Lori and I had a late morning. We ate breakfast at a dinner called Eat Well then did some errands. When we got home, it was warm and sunny (one of the few sunburnsts in a winter of rains) so we took our bikes, rode to Robin's place and took pictures of Layla, who is adorable.

I need to ride my bike more.

what do you have to have in order to get it from some other place

Not very much, in my experience. A voided current cheque, IIRC.

Thanks for the heads up, PMM. I suspect I haven't been looking closely enough. I hoped that maybe I'd bought it by mistake, but the Ghirardelli in the cupboard is vanilla chocolate, so to speak.