…for not going to the grocery store today, where I would have walked RIGHT PAST the baking supplies section and I would have REMEMBERED that we were OUT of Tollhouse morsels, and I would have BOUGHT SOME.
So I wouldn’t be sitting here now, furtively eating Nestle’s Quik, dry, with a spoon, to get my late-night choco fix, waiting up for The Cat Who Walks Alone, hoping the Better Half, or, HORRORS!! :eek: La Principessa doesn’t come downstairs and find me slumped in front of the 'puter eating Nestle’s Quik.
At least I put it in a bowl, I’m not eating it directly out of the box. So I’m not a complete degenerate.
Mmmm, straight-up hot chocolate. There’s something about that gritty texture that I really like. Don’t tell anybody, but I eat peanut butter and brown sugar by the spoonful, too. Mmm, crunchy brown sugar. Think I’ll go get me some.
“You think I didn’t think of that?” she said bitterly.
No Hershey’s syrup in the house, either. No Hershey’s baking cocoa, so I can’t make brownies.
Total chocolate products in house–two boxes baker’s chocolate. Three boxes (opened) Nestle’s Quik.
I hate making brownies with baker’s choc, it takes too long to melt.
And anyway, if I make brownies late at night, it sets off the choc-alarm upstairs and people wake up and come downstairs and WANT SOME!! No, no, those are MY brownies, MINE MINE MINE.
Sometimes it’s very difficult to be a Mother who is supposed to Share Her Food with her children. I can hide the tollhouse morsels in the upper kitchen cabinet behind the extra jars of pickles and eat them all alone, late at night, and I don’t have to share.
[sub]filthy unmaternal degenerate[/sub]
I’ll join you in the unmaternal corner Duckie. I need chocolate, my little guy just changed schools (a verypostive move ) but the new school requires homework.
It’s not pretty at this point in time at chez Primaflora
RED BULL? The stuff that tastes like somebody ground up a whole mess of orange smarties (the American all-sugar kind, not the nummy Canadian chocolate kind), mixed 'em with water and tossed in the contents of a St. John’s Wort pill for good measure? And you’re calling HER sick? You poor demented woman…
Now I need to go back to eating my still somewhat cold microwaved pizza bites. Mmmm bite sized pizza with random cold patches. Too bad I’m out of hot pockets to go with them.
Quik is quite good sprinkled on buttered toast, as you would cinnamon sugar. That has been my late-night chocolate fix on more than one occasion, when old roommates would keep the stuff on the house.
You’ve all got it wrong. You’re supposed to sprinkle the Quik on ice-cream. That way you can pretend that you aren’t being debased, you just ran out of topping.
For a truely ultimate late night snacking pleasure try the following:
1 grahm (i wish i could spell…) cracker
peanut butter to taste
enough processed american cheeZe singles to fully cover the peanut butter, please for safety’s sake use NAME BRAND processed american cheeZe singles. (And no they aren’t cheese, its cheeZe)
I’ve actually managed to scare off my roommates in college eating this. These are people who would eat slices of pizza that fell onto the floor of our quad (4 guys living together isn’t very hygenic).
But if you want good chocolate, bitter sweet Benard … Cabough? (Some wierd ass european name I can’t spell either. It sounds like Tai-Bo though umm only with a C… or K)
Man I think I need hooked on phonics… Do you think they make a version for graduate students?
Hey Gooster: Not that I have any personal experience with getting chocolate cravings, but if all you have is Quik powder, you can mix it with a little hot water (like in a 2-1 ratio, 2 powder to 1 water) to make an acceptible substitute for hot chocolate. Well, not acceptible actually, but edible.
Not that I have any personal knowledge or anything.
