10 February 2008

Just before Christmas, an artisan chocolate shop moved in next to the Rogue Creamery, our local cheese factory. Their chocolates are made on site and are amazing- easily as good as the best chocolates we've tried in San Francisco. This is now Becky's favorite parking lot in town, cheese on one side, chocolate on the other, lots of samples at both stores.


Sophie gets a treat whenever she passes off all the songs in a piano book and this week she finished her piano theory, level 2 book. She could have had a milkshake for the same price as one truffle, but Sophie wisely chose quality over quantity. It was hard to choose and she finally picked a buckwheat honey truffle- very rich and delicious.


Helen woke up early Thursday morning and joined Gibson on the counter while Becky packed Brandan and Sophie's lunches. Gibson wakes up early every morning. He's gnawing on a kiwi that will soon get peeled and put in Sophie's lunch.

Brandan made amazing wheat-, egg-, dairy-free bread this morning, no small task. Most wheat-free bread is very heavy and tastes weird. This was light, chewy and tasted perfectly like bread. It took about 3 hours and has odd ingredients like garbanzo bean/fava bean flour in it, but when you consider this was Abe and Helen's first experience relishing warm bread from the oven with butter and honey, definitely worth the time and effort. Abe really likes the bread, he's scowling in the photo because he's tired of posing for Becky. Maybe we'll try for some action shots next week.