Robin!
Thursday June 09th 2011, 11:09 pm
Filed under: Food,Friends,Knit

My friend Robin, a fellow knitter, flew in from my hometown and I got to spend part of today with her. We tried to figure out how long it had been; must have been three years now, way too long. We were catching up, we had no particular agenda–till she said she’d realized she’d packed no chocolate.

Hey!

I had her sample some of mine: Valrhona 71%, some Endangered Species dark with hazelnut toffee, and then we were off to the local Whole Foods, which has more choices than anywhere.

She passed on the Vosges chocolate/bacon bar. So far.

She went to her brother’s after that (I don’t get to keep her all the time) and I to KnitNight.

Where I got six carefully-knitted rows of lace done at Purlescence. Qiviut is like the finest cup of hot chocolate: you savor it slowly, a sipped stitch at a time.


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My son gave me one of those bacon/chocolate bars for Christmas. The salty-sweet thing was pretty good, but the aftertaste was odd. I prefer my chocolate straight up, though nuts or toffee are OK!

Comment by india 06.10.11 @ 5:27 am

Bacon in my chocolate? Don’t think so. But I’m back to not being able to eat bacon again… long story, all in my head, not a health problem…

Comment by Channon 06.10.11 @ 6:36 am

I’ll have that bacon as a side to the chocolate very much — and yes, I want dark chocolate!

sipping is good — are we allowed to “slurp”?

Comment by bev 06.10.11 @ 7:00 am

One sip at a time, as we transition from project to process. Don’t want to get done quickly, savor this.

Comment by Sherry in Idaho 06.10.11 @ 7:36 am

Didn’t pack any chocolate!?

Thank you, I’ll pass on the bacon/chocolate. I like them both, but not at the same time.

Comment by Don Meyer 06.10.11 @ 8:48 am

Was that a sipped stitch, or a slipped stitch? Either way, sounds wonderful.

Comment by twinsetellen 06.10.11 @ 1:23 pm

I got to see Alison and the qiviut. Each was wonderful. Thanks, Alison!

Comment by RobinM 06.10.11 @ 2:30 pm

Nope, I didn’t pack any chocolate. An oversight on my part. I didn’t realize how much I’d miss it until I got here. I missed it a lot.

Comment by RobinM 06.10.11 @ 2:32 pm

My brother is moving to Alaska… I asked him to pluck a musk ox for me. You should have seen the look on his face! (He’s a hunter type)

Comment by Diana Troldahl 06.10.11 @ 5:31 pm



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