Ch-ch-ch-Chocolate!

So someone commented "what's with you and chocolate?" last blog, well I'll tell you! It all started about two years ago, after college I got really into wine and all the different tastes and complexities and stuff. Then one day I decided that I was fat so I pick up the recent bestselling diet book at the time called french women don't get fat. Much to my delight when the fatty-fat month was over I discovered that the book wasn't a standard follow this diet plan and get thin book but a total food lifestyle change book where you discover and learn how to actually taste your food. You may think well when I put food in my mouth I taste it, after reading this book you'd be surprised. Well flash forward a year or so when I discovered the sequel to that book, A french women for all seasons which had a whole section about chocolate and chocolate tasting. I was so excited to discover the different tastes of chocolate and different cocao percentages. Much like wine the equipment and other factors play into the taste of real chocolate and it fascinates me. I am currently reading the essence of chocolate and making killer PB and Chocolate cookies while I write this, quite exciting, don't you wish you were at my house?!

Random Quote of the day: a lady by the Apple store tells her kid "Yeah I know meat is murder, Hot tasty murder"

We got rained out...

Our show got rained out tonight, Boo... Oh, well, I could actually use the break. So what have I been up too you ask. I've been baking cause, what can you really do when you're house bound and sick. I had a friend tell me that he use's pillsbury crescent rolls to make chocolate croissants so I tried. I wrapped chocolate squares in the store bought rolls (which were kinda hard to figure out, cause they wouldn't unroll like the friggin picture) then I made and egg wash of and egg a bit of sugar and vanilla, wisked it all together, brush it on the rolls generously and sprinkle with sugar, voila instant chocolate fix! They taste okay, next time I will use a sweeter chocolate but I like bittersweet which is what I used. Try it kids...

Another big idea brought to you by Bettie

I'm thinking of maybe writing another blog strictly on food and restaurants here in NYC. Right now at least because my acting life is a little monotonous being in a show, I'm not saying it's not exciting it's just become a nine to fiver. It'd be a separate blog and more than likely weekly and not daily. There's just so much that I am experiencing culinary-wise in this city that I though you would like to know about.

I'm not rich like some of the other food critics you read are, how they are like, "Well on the upper-east side at a bargin of $90 a plate you can get the [insert fancy french shit here] blah blah tastes splendiforously supercalifragilisically marvelous, pate, fours, gras, caca blah Blah" No, I'd write with my 25 year old brain "I like Kee's Chocolates in Chelsea because they have all kinds of subtle flavors in their truffles and use excellent chocolate preparations. The truffle melts in your mouth slowly and since I had the Jasmine flavored one I could breath flowers through my nose while I ate it. Sounds strange but it was cool. I love it and I only needed one (they're 2.50 each) to be satified which is a record for me."

What do you think? I'd check the place out, I love food but fancy language and haute couture can bother me sometimes. Now for some Ratatouille Pictures...
Who wants some?!



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We open in three days holy shit! I better memorize my last bit of lines, I keep putting it off like a high schooler putting off finals, like oh, this day is never going to come and then it all floods in at once. Oh Lordy, I'll be able to do it though... I've still got to search for what I am going to do for the next two months... Oh yeah I added my Twitter to my blog it's on the right side under my archive section, It's just random thoughts of the day...Peace, Obama '08

Ratatouille and Rehearsal

It's incredible humid today in New York. I went down to Union Square, I wanted to make Ratatouille before I went to rehearsal. The stupid wholefoods paper bag burst because It was so wet from the humidity. It's supposed to rain again today I hope It happens soon so this cloud will go away. I can smell the Ratatouille baking in the kitchen. I used all local ingredients so It should taste pretty awesome. I think I made way too much though, I don't know what I'm gonna do with it all... Anyone want Ratatouille?

Rehearsals are going well, Last night the murderer scene was the best that It has ever been. It got me thinking of the nature of the beast. How you can have this amazing performance that you are so proud of but in the end it is a fleeting moment that can't be relived ever again in the same way. It lives only now in the mind of those few who were there to see it.... I hope we get good audiences this show, even if the play is 3 hours long....

I invent inventive recipes when I am bored...

I had no idea Richard III was sooooo long, holy mother of hell, I'm having fun with it though. Someday I want to play Queen Margaret cause I love her curses monologue... Damn it's too hot to think again, it was 87 degrees and all I see in the store windows are peacoats... Whatever, I'm stuck in limbo between which cooking class I want to take, Chocolate or Mexican food; lets have a vote, I decided to try to cook tequila chicken today but I couldn't find a good recipe so I made one up and it got me pretty buzzed, I found it funny, want the recipe? it was put a chicken breast in a sandwich bag and add equal good sized glugs of lemon juice and tequila then I added tarragon, oregano, salt, pepper, cayan pepper and adobo. Mix it all up and put it in the fridge for about a day then grill it. It's like a shot with poultry. This is what happens when I am left to my own devices too damn long. I did make a killer mocha with Ibarra chocolate the other day though...