Yeah, I am still alive

I wish I could write that I have been somewhere incredible and that is why I have not been blogging but the truth is I am just a victim of the winter blues. Every year about this time I start wishing I was a bear and able to hibernate for a few months. I want to sleep late, I want to go to bed early, I want to take naps.... all in all I just want to sleep. But I am not a bear and my family is taking issue with my continual sleeping so up I get, Laundry I do and I just wish it was spring already. Did the groundhog see his shadow??

That said this past week the gourmet club meeting was at my house (and Lora's) and we did cooking with chocolate in honor of Valentines' day. The menu was excellent- baby greens with a citrus dressing (cocoa nibs get sprinkled on top,) Medallions of beef with Rosemary sauce (cocoa is in the sauce,) Roasted butternut squash ravioli with a brown butter and bittersweet chocolate sauce ( Big yum!) and 2 desserts- white chocolate raspberry sauce over raspberries, and chocolate nibs napoleons. Oh and chocolate martinis too. The food was great and I love cooking with the women on Thursdays. This is the closest that I get to the communal feeling of life in Assasetre. Now I am longing to get back to Ghana...maybe I can sleep the entire flight there? LOL