Chocolate Pudding Parfaits
Because all I want this month is chocolate
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This past Christmas Eve, Steve and I wandered around a Target trying to find an ugly Christmas sweater for a gag gift. Almost all of the Christmas stuff was gone and they had already started replacing it with Valentine’s Day merchandise.
This depressed me. I hate how early stores put out Christmas stuff, but something about the fact that Valentine’s day promotion starts before Christmas is too much.
(If only this was our biggest problem, eh?)
Valentine’s day is my least favorite holiday and one I largely ignore. It feels so performative. It starts when we’re young, with who received the most Valentine’s cards in their decorated shoe box (until the teachers started making everyone give a card to everyone), and in junior high and high school with who received flowers and candy (which they would, of course, carry from class to class all day long).
I know social media didn’t invent Valentine’s day, but it certainly could have. It’s the best opportunity of the year for those who love a good humble brag and want it distributed to as many people as possible, friends and strangers alike.
I want flowers and candy and a night out as much as the next person. But, I don’t want those things from someone who’s doing it because they think they are supposed to. And I don’t really want it to be on display.
Anyhoo, I WILL fully admit to how susceptible I am to the power of suggestion because what I really want in February is chocolate. Not the sugary, grainy kind that comes in red plastic wrapped boxes. I want the good stuff, in many different forms and all month long, not just on the 14th.
This week, chocolate made it’s appearance in our home in the form of these double chocolate parfaits. The secret here is in the pudding, which was inspired by an old Cook’s Illustrated recipe that used both cocoa powder and melted chocolate. It’s rich and creamy, deeply chocolate, and kind of nostalgic in a way that I needed this week.
Sandra Serrano, a Lost Supper Club Member and the author of SandraPop wrote that she wanted to “just want to delete my entire online presence and start living like I did in 2000. My brain is tired.”
That is exactly how I was feeling this week.
Chocolate pudding helped.
Double Chocolate Parfaits
