Dallas Chocolate Festival 2019
Sep. 8th, 2019 11:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
flamingswordYesterday rubyredrose and I went to the Dallas Chocolate Festival. Hoo boy.
It was crowded and overstimulating, but OMG ALL OF THE CHOCOLATE. The crowding was not that bad? But it would have been nice if there were places to sit and drink water and clear the palate. There was one place that was giving away free flavored Topo Chico's and I had the lime flavor. It was exactly correct for the circumstances. But they had raw chocolate and 100% dark chocolate and bourbon-barrel-aged chocolate. They had chocolates that the beans had been roasted at different temperatures and then "conched" for different lengths of time so you could taste the difference that heat treatment makes in the final bar. All told, I dropped $150 yesterday on having a good day, and I did, depression be damned.
We talked about tactics for handling different stimulation levels and CBT and various annoying work goings-on that deserve to be forgotten. We went out for sushi after and I had volcano rolls that were actually spicy and we talked about depression and bad driving and ridiculous insurance claims.
Sadly, nobody at the event had the red wine ganache chocolates that Virgileso brought me one of last year that made my eyes roll back in my head. Ruby is thinking of making something with that, since she found a recipe. Good friends are good.
rubyredrose and I went to the Dallas Chocolate Festival. Hoo boy. It was crowded and overstimulating, but OMG ALL OF THE CHOCOLATE. The crowding was not that bad? But it would have been nice if there were places to sit and drink water and clear the palate. There was one place that was giving away free flavored Topo Chico's and I had the lime flavor. It was exactly correct for the circumstances. But they had raw chocolate and 100% dark chocolate and bourbon-barrel-aged chocolate. They had chocolates that the beans had been roasted at different temperatures and then "conched" for different lengths of time so you could taste the difference that heat treatment makes in the final bar. All told, I dropped $150 yesterday on having a good day, and I did, depression be damned.
We talked about tactics for handling different stimulation levels and CBT and various annoying work goings-on that deserve to be forgotten. We went out for sushi after and I had volcano rolls that were actually spicy and we talked about depression and bad driving and ridiculous insurance claims.
Sadly, nobody at the event had the red wine ganache chocolates that Virgileso brought me one of last year that made my eyes roll back in my head. Ruby is thinking of making something with that, since she found a recipe. Good friends are good.