I love torturing my wife!

[thewayne]

You're probably used to my meandering before coming to the point, this post is no different. The middle of next week is my birthday, we're going out tonight since it's the middle of the week. When we were in Germany, for some reason I was really jonesing for a dark chocolate-covered pretzel, probably because they have such terrific pretzels there.

I never found what I wanted.

The other day I was thinking that it'd been a while since I'd made a chocolate mousse pie (I make an AWESOME chocolate mousse), perhaps for my wife's birthday in October. I don't remember.

Then I remembered the pretzels....

Last night I hit La Groceria and snagged a bag of pretzel sticks, and also a bag of peppermint candies. Turns out that a food processor is no good for breaking up pretzels, but it does a good job with the peppermints, rending both powder and chunks. So I broke up a half dozen pretzel sticks, twenty peppermint candies, and blended most of both in to the chocolate as I was folding in the whipped cream and egg whites. I gave the bowl to Russet to lick, and she liked it, but she couldn't identify the peppermint! Normally when I go with odd flavors, orange is the first to go in, and she suspected orange, but I didn't this time. I think that threw her.

And I wouldn't tell her what I'd done!

She might find the bags of pretzels and peppermints, but if not, we'll pull the pie out after we get back from dinner as it takes 3-4 hours to set properly.

Comments

[vaudy.livejournal.com]

That sounds really tasty; I'm going to have to try that!