Chocolate tasting at the Davis Square Loft Apartments
So, I’ve been a busy girl. Off-island, on again. Off-island, on again. Cooking, teaching, eating, marketing. Prepping, rushing, delivering. Not a lot of sleep, or returning of phone calls, but now that I’m home, I can catch up with that stuff.
Of the past seven days, I thought I’d share with you the highlights:
El El Frijoles–I’m not gushing. I’m not. But really, Michele and Michael really know how to rock Sargentville’s culinary scene. ”Culinary scene?” you ask? Heck yah! There’s doughnuts at the Eggemoggin Country Store, and then there’s these guys. Their Cinco de Mayo fiesta was a testament to how much we’ve missed them all winter. 120 dinners in as many minutes is pretty impressive. They open for the season on May 20th.
Good Friends–Okay, so maybe I could walk out on the street in your town and invite the first 5 people I ran into to a free class on chocolate making, complete with wine and tasting, and they would drop everything and come. But that’s not the point. Good friends have this nutty tendency abandon their work mid-day for a comrade in need. From helping a desperate caterer remove the bellies from 4 gallon buckets of raw clams, to suffering through a chocolate making class. Steve, Alan, Kristen, Denise and Amy not only did the latter, but they offered a great critique, a lot of helpful hints and didn’t even complain that there was not a chair to sit on. Nor did they complain about choking down their truffles and chardonnay at 10 o’clock in the morning.
The Stonewall Kitchen Cooking School–I like to tell people that I have the best job in the whole world, but after meeting Patty Roche and all the great ladies at the Stonewall Kitchen Cooking School, I think I may have some competition in that department. State-of-the-art kitchen, fresh ingredients, great food, fun folks with an excellent attitude–does it get better than that?
The Davis Square Loft Apartments–Okay, so I know this is kind of random–I mean, hello, it’s an apartment complex. But it’s an incredibly cool apartment complex. Our friend Sharon Kitchens had us down to Sommerville to conduct a casual chocolate tasting for her fellow Davis Square neighbors. Lots of windows, glass garage doors opening in to the living room, great communal atmosphere–with just the right amount of privacy, and a funky, tree-top Ewok Village-esque atmosphere. Good times.
