FLIRTATIOUSLY SWEET

being a big fanatic of chocolate, i alter my way from simply eating to making it on my own - without losing the core of it all: personal enjoyment.

my favorite is always the dark chocolate which tastes mildly sweet and a little bit bitter. i prefer nuts to raisin or other dried fruits to mix with it.

chocolate is deliberately delicious. it is one of foods of my favorite which seems guilt-free, as certain fruits or vegetables. the fact that consuming some dark chocolate is somehow good for health makes me love it more. besides, it doesn't taste too sweet so i won't be sorry for having any problem from it. i just simply feel more at ease to eat it.

i learnt how to create my very own praline and trufle from my big sister - thanks God for her! i think, when i learnt how to make it, i as well lived up my keeness on cooking. i did a lot of breakthrough from what my sister taught me - more of kinds of aesthetic aspects of cooking. garnishing is all that matters. i did some work of art by garnishing my creation in a way that my sister would never agree with. or at least she wouldn't give a damn about it.

i remember when i made those pretty pralines for a guy on whom i had a crush. i put them in a small box, and i decorated it with dried leaf of Hibiscus rosa-sinensis which performed yellowish appearance of beautiful dried autumn leaf, with a sentence written on it: Snow Falls On Cedars - a title of a book i found in the library of American Corner of Gadjah Mada University. i also put some red cherries to give a contrasting view inside the box of the pralines. it was really overwhelming to give something with a lot of artsy touch of my personal taste. the bonus: he liked it!

doing something beyond my expectation is just great for someone who seems so hopeless like i am. enjoying chocolate gives me chance to explore things that previously unseen and undone before.

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