Trudy, it's SO COOL. You take some of the chocolate, melt it, spread it on parchment paper, then chill till it hardens. Then you break it into pieces, sprinkle it with powdered sugar, then randomly insert them into the top of the cake. It looks so cool. I hope mine looks half as good as the picture.

Dude, they should film that and show it every Christmas.

and then the other white meat

I was thinking baby, myself.

Uh, yes.

Want chocolate.

Also want to know what I did all this week as I can suddenly fill in my time sheets (we bill clients, so we must track time.).

Also want to know what I did all this week as I can suddenly fill in my time sheets (we bill clients, so we must track time.)

"conference with so-and-so" covers a lot.

Also want to know what I did all this week as I can suddenly fill in my time sheets (we bill clients, so we must track time.).

That happens to me every friday. You'd think that by know I'd learned to enter my time each day. (Well, some days I do....) Usually I log into our client's system and check the modified dates of certain files and use that to reconstruct my activities. If I make major changes to code I put the date in a comment, so sometimes I search for that. Emails often come in handy to determine when I started or finished something.

vw is teasing with the chocolatey goodness!

GF and I make awesome peppermint bark at Christmas. Melt white chocolate with a few drops of peppermint extract. Pour onto parchment and chill. Melt dark chocolate. Pour over white chocolate. Sprinkle with crushed candy canes and chill. Break into pieces and shove into your mouth. MMMMMMMM!!!!!

Scallops are my second favorite meat. Mmmm... meat.

You take some of the chocolate, melt it, spread it on parchment paper, then chill till it hardens. Then you break it into pieces, sprinkle it with powdered sugar, then randomly insert them into the top of the cake.

wiping drool off keyboard

Dear, heavens. That sounds incredible! Take pictures when you're done.

More food porn: [link] I had these (grit cakes at Top of the Hill in Chapel Hill, NC) last week and they were to die for. My mouth is watering just thinking about them.

Ppffbbtt! I wouldn't be getting it cut "Hec-short" anyway, as I'm the one person that would make you say "You know, long hair is better." I look like Carol Burnett with any short cut.

Clearly lies as it is impossible to make Raquel look anything other than glamorous.

Check out the menu at Suppenkuche where we'll be eating on Saturday night before see Charlie and the Chocolate Factory on IMAX. It's german food but very very good.

Our grocery store makes a fabulous ham and butter sandwich. Baguette. Good ham, sliced thin. Good butter.

I had one of them on Sunday. It really is amazingly good, and I'm not even a ham fan.