So glad she's not an editor

A cow orker just emailed the guy who filled in for me while I was on vacation, saying he "may have to refresh [Magid] with some information."

Well, then.

Truffle thoughts

I made four batches of truffles with (some of) the last 4.5-lb bar of dark chocolate. I used vanilla egg nog instead of straight cream, since I already had the egg nog. This worked out fine (at least, no one complained :-). However, since the pieces I was able to break off were different sizes, and I didn't measure the egg nog, there were different proportions each time, which resulted in some batches being stickier than others. This meant rolling them in something. The obvious choice is cocoa powder, but I don't like how the bitterness of it is the first thing the eater tastes, so I have defaulted to powdered sugar, which doesn't look as nice and always ends up much more messy, somehow. Last night, however, a friend pointed out that there are sweetened cocoa powders. Aha! And then today I mention this to a cow orker, who has a container of sweetened cocoa she doesn't want (too sweet for her). Score. Perhaps this will give me impetus to start on the second bar of chocolate, which means getting more dairy product. If I get cream this time, I can make a variety of flavors, using booze or flower water (I have orange blossom and rose). Any other suggestions for flavorings?
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