• date night dinner & a show: all about hamilton

    July 31, 2018bestwithchocolate@gmail.com

    So this past weekend we got to see Hamilton at the Kennedy Center! If you happen to have been living under a rock and have no idea what I’m talking about, it’s a 2h 45min musical about Alexander Hamilton and the other founding fathers culminating in the duel where Aaron Burr killed Hamilton. It’s got insanely catchy music, fusing hip hop, R&B, pop, soul, and rap, and color-casts non-white actors with deliberation. It’s a crazy piece of history, both in the telling and the making, and it’s also just good old fun. The Kennedy Center production we saw was amazing.…

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  • #20 - Pulled pork BBQ, crispy fried shallots, sharp cheddar at Space Bar, Review @ bestwithchocolate.com

    dinner review: space bar;

    July 7, 2017bestwithchocolate@gmail.com

    As I feel like I express on this blog…life is a little crazy~!  Tyler and I have recently moved into our new house, and while there have been some tasty recipes made for our housewarming party and for ourselves on crazy weeknights and weekends, I’ve been struggling with actually posting them. The week before we moved, the crazy Kenichi puppy whipped his rope toy around into my laptop screen and broke it.  I ordered a new laptop through Costco, and while previously I’ve had good experiences with Costco and their customer service, they cancelled my order not once, but TWICE,…

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  • Cauliflower Grilled Cheese @ bestwithchocolate.com

    cauliflower crust (grilled cheese);

    December 7, 2016bestwithchocolate@gmail.com

    So I’ve seen recipes for “cauliflower” substitute everything recently on pinterest (click for my tipsychocochip board on pinterest!), and to be honest I’ve been fairly skeptical.  But I have been trying to eat healthier lately and I wanted a grilled cheese sandwich, so I figured if I was going to stoop, maybe I’d try the cauliflower bread.  This is another recipe where this 1.5 c. food processor comes in handy!  Just enough to make one or two servings without unnecessary cleanup!   It was surprisingly tasty actually.  More akin to a bread-like texture than I thought, and definitely not bad smothered with cheese.  This…

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  • Crab Bisque recipe @ bestwithchocolate.com

    crab bisque;

    August 3, 2016bestwithchocolate@gmail.com

    I am definitely becoming the queen of convenience!  Okay, not really, because this recipe isn’t exactly as simple as some of my five-ingredient recipes like bbq baby back ribs, but I’ve definitely been reaching for the recipes with a convenience factor (read: cream of potato soup, for this one).  Here’s the same plug from my last recipe, spicy cream tomato sauce pasta which uses jarred tomato sauce: convenience isn’t a bad thing.  In an ideal world, I’d love to make everything from scratch or nearly scratch (you probably won’t catch me boiling up some seafood to make seafood stock either way).  But I’m…

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