chocolate

[redbird]

No, I did not spend all the money in my wallet on chocolate*, but I treated us to a box of chocolates from Serenade, the chocolatier in Brookline with a wide selection of vegan chocolates.

I took the bus to Brookline Village, walked a little extra because I was wrong about which bus stop to use, walked into the shop, and asked for a one-pound box.

I bought two vegan caramels, which Adrian had asked for; I'd have gotten more, but I wasn't sure what she or Cattitude think of sea salt caramel. Just for myself, I got six dairy truffles, three lemon and three lime. The rest was a few (vegan) chocolate creams, and a lot of chocolate-dipped fruit and nuts, including several of their excellent chocolate covered plums, a candy I haven't seen anywhere else.

I came home via Trader Joe's, where I bought fruit, a bell pepper, hummus, pre-cooked chicken sausages, a carton of chocolate ice cream, and a box of frozen vanilla and chocolate macarons.

Even counting the chocolate part of the groceries, I would have had money left from the $79 that happens to be how much cash is in my wallet right now. That's a pretty arbitrary metric, since I don't always have the same amount of cash (I do make a point of having some, because cash still comes in handy sometimes).

*see yesterday's post

Comments

[otter]

Those must be reasonably priced chocolates, because I can imagine that shopping list adding up to quite a bit more.

[redbird]

The chocolate came to $62.70, and the ice cream and macarons between them were $11.

The thing is, I didn't buy a lot at Trader Joe's, because I noticed before I got there that my shoulder was sore, so I didn't want to carry too much. Otherwise, I'd have gotten more than two bananas, and at least considered a melon or bag of clementines to go with the bananas and the package of blueberries.

I have no idea what counts as "reasonably priced" anymore, between the inflation of the last few years, and the awareness that as people age, they tend to mentally anchor "reasonable" prices to when they were somewhat younger. (Whether I'll remember that in another ten years, I don't know.)

[otter]

That does seem what I'd expect for boutique chocolates. Do you remember when gas was around $.30/gallon? And when typewrite keyboards had a cent sign, not just a dollar sign?

[redbird]

Yes to both. I was born late in the Kennedy administration, meaning I also remember the OPEC embargo and gas station lines.

[minoanmiss]

Chocolate Covered Plums?! *ears prick up*

[redbird]

They are nice. Juicy dried plums, or pieces thereof, which taste similar to the standard prunes of commerce. These are about the size of most of the other candies I bought yesterday, unlike the chocolate apricot, an entire round dried apricot, which is inconveniently large. (The apricots from my favorite chocolatier in New York were smaller.)

Things I did not buy yesterday included chocolate-dipped wedges of dried pineapple.

The store is Serenade Chocolates, in Brookline Village, and they have a useful website at serenadechocolatier.com.