When you're stressed, you eat ice cream, cake, chocolate and sweets. Why? Because stressed spelled backwards is desserts.

Caroline made a steamed fig pudding with brandy hard sauce. Hedy and Jacob brought a platter of dense, moist gingerbread squares studded with chunks of candied ginger and frosted with a lemon cream cheese icing. John and Marie brought a flourless chocolate souffle cake filled with chocolate mousse, glazed with chocolate ganache and decorated with white chocolate swirls. Jag and Nageena brought a really interesting dessert called halwa that is made with carrots. And I brought Gemma's shortbread.

Hanlon's Razor:"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.

It's a fun social event. What better thing to do in the middle of winter than eat chocolate?

God' is an excuse to justify hate.

Dove chocolate Easter eggs make good bullets for my chocolate cannon.