Chocolate

So the other day I burned my tongue on a spoonful of chocolate fondue.  If I have to burn my tongue I can think of no better way to do it.  To me chocolate is the perfect food.  I had a friend once say that she hoped that there was chocolate and fruit in heaven.  I'm just hoping for the chocolate, the fruit would just be a nice side benefit.

I am hopelessly addicted to chocolate.  I have to have some every day.  I lost a ton of weight a while ago and would go weeks without chocolate.  I can't imagine how I did that.  I've got to have something chocolate.  I try and rid my house completely of chocolate so I can get over my addiction, but I always find some somewhere.  Or I bake something.

The absolute best form of chocolate is the brownie.  But not just any brownie, for some reason brownies from a mix are so much better than completely homemade.  I keep trying to find a recipe that makes amazing brownies, but nothing compares to a mix.  And I have a favorite mix.  My kids have all sorts foods that they cannot eat so we have to eat the good chocolate.  And Ghirardelli makes an awesome brownie mix.  And Costco carries a huge box of this amazing brownie mix.  Which translates into great brownies whenever the mood strikes.  (Just an FYI...if you run out of eggs and choose to use applesauce instead like the internet suggests, it doesn't work so well.  They still taste fantastic, just really super gooey.  We had to eat them with a spoon.)  Oh and don't be putting any nuts into the chocolate brownie...that is not allowed.  Additional chocolate chips are encouraged.

I have become a chocolate snob in the past few years.  Since we figured out the kids couldn't have regular chocolate like Hershey's or Nestle's and we have had to have Ghirardelli's a lot, a Hershey bar or a Kit Kat just doesn't do it for me anymore.  Now in a pinch I might just have to make myself eat a regular chocolate bar, but luckily they sell the good stuff at Target and Wal-Mart.  And Sprouts has the best malted milk balls, we never buy anything healthy at that store, just candy.  (For non-locals Sprouts is a healthy food store.  Most people in line have bags of veggies and fruits...not us...we have our bags of chocolate.)

I married a chocolate lover as well.  That is good and bad.  I don't feel guilty anymore when I really want some chocolate...he usually does too.  But then if I say I really want some chocolate I don't have that other voice that says, we really shouldn't.

So what is the food you cannot do without?  The food you will go to huge lengths to obtain at times.  And does anyone have an amazing brownie recipe that rivals my box mixes?  I would love to have one on hand when my mixes run out.  We live too far from the grocery store and sometimes a girl just has to have her chocolate.