{"id":1815,"date":"2012-05-07T20:02:35","date_gmt":"2012-05-08T01:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/?p=1815"},"modified":"2012-05-28T10:04:59","modified_gmt":"2012-05-28T15:04:59","slug":"raspberries-chocolate-and-one-of-my-favorite-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/2012\/05\/raspberries-chocolate-and-one-of-my-favorite-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Raspberries, Chocolate, and One of My Favorite People"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Last week was the kind of week that makes it difficult to maintain an otherwise sunny disposition.<\/p>\n

There were other factors involved, but the main one involves my car.<\/p>\n

My poor car; she’s been through so much.<\/p>\n

On Monday, I started her up and got ready to go through the morning routine. I pulled onto the express way and before she had gone two miles, I saw the speedometer stop talking to me. I looked at the gas gauge and saw a lifeless needle. I was still traveling at about 65 miles per hour when the windshield wipers stopped. This is the part where I started to sweat a little, and pulled over to the nearest shoulder. My car started to lurch a bit, but I made it over there.<\/p>\n

I called AAA, got my car towed, was thankful that the driver was nice and even drove Alex and me home. Then I waited to hear from the shop where I take my car. Long story short, I was without my trusty ride until Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n

This is where my guy stepped in. For three days he drove Alex to school and then dropped me off at work, adding more than a few miles and more than a few minutes to his morning. He picked us up too and got us home. I can’t tell you how much I appreciated that. I tried to tell him how much I appreciated that, but don’t know that I really communicated it successfully.<\/p>\n

So, this weekend, I wanted to make him something special. I know that he likes raspberries and chocolate, so I decided to make Raspberry Cream-Filled Puffs with Dark Chocolate Sauce. Before you get all impressed, I didn’t make this up. It is a variation of Joy the Baker’s Strawberry Cream Puffs with Milk Chocolate Sauce.<\/a> I just made a few little tweaks to her recipe, substituting freeze dried raspberries for the strawberries that she uses. I bought one bag of the raspberries; it didn’t yield quite as much berry as the recipe wanted. I also substituted dark chocolate for milk chocolate because that’s what my guy likes.<\/p>\n

These were delicious, but not quite as sweet as he was to me last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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