Only fascists don't like chocolate and peanut butter together.

I was just at my sister's house for a week, mooching off their awesomeness while TA is away for work. My sister happens to make some pretty damn delicious cookies - but this time she seriously surpassed herself.

I don't know how she did it (I'm pretty sure her secret ingredient is crack), but she made the best damn chocolated-chocolate-peanut butter cookies in the entire universe. They were chocolate cookie with chocolate and Reese's peanut butter chips in them. These cookies, disseminated around the world, are so awesome they could stop global warming.

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When TA and I stopped in New Orleans on our cross country trek I finally tried red beans and rice for the first time.

It was out of this world delicious.

How has more soul food not made it to the Pacific Northwest? I feel like I've missed out on such a diverse cuisine by not experimenting more with the various regional 'delicacies' present in my own country.

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After eating that delicious roasted duckling last night I shredded the rest of the meat off the bones to make some fried rice. This is actually the first time I've ever made fried rice, and to be honest, I was a little intimidated. It seemed so complicated for some reason...a reason that I'm unsure of what it actually was.

It was easy peasy. Seriously. I see lots of fried rice in our future.

The key, apparently, is "overnight rice." Yesterday when Husband declared he wanted white rice with the roasted duckling, as opposed to the lovely roasted fingerling potatoes and zucchini I wanted to pair it with, I simply tossed double the amount I normally would in the rice cooker and threw it in the fridge overnight.

Obviously the ingredients for fried rice vary greatly; I can definitely see this as one of those 'clean out the veggie shelf' recipes. So awesome.

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