September 13, 2013: If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again! Especially when it comes to chocolate souffles!

Ooooh. Almost…

Akemi has been chocolate souffles lately.  A lot of chocolate souffles lately.  It started the other day with her attempt to recreate a successful chocolate souffle she’d made.

“So, how is it?”she asked as I cracked the hard top, dipped my spoon into the soft chocolate center, and tasted her creation.

“Amazing,”I told her.

“Is it hot?”she asked.

“Well, no,”I said truthfully.  ”Not hot.  But delicious!”

A couple of hours later, she summoned me into the kitchen to sample – yet another chocolate souffle.  ”This one,”she assured me, “Is better.”

I sat down and sampled her second try, this time cutting the richness of the dark chocolate ganache with the, uh, richness of vanilla Haagen-Dazs ice cream.

“Is it good?”she asked.

“It’s great,”I said.

“Is it hot?”she asked.

“Well, it’s warm…”

Fast-forward to dinner.  And dessert: yet another chocolate souffle.

“How is it?”she asked me for the third time that day.

Hey, guess what I had for dessert today?  But I’ve got to be careful.  I think she’s on to me!

In addition to eating chocolate souffles, monitoring my fantasy football leagues, and spending quality time with my dogs, I’ve also been doing a little scriptwriting for a project that, if all goes as planned (which it rarely EVER does), should go to camera sometime in early 2014.  Two weeks since I started and only 38 pages in.  Damn.  After all these years, it still doesn’t get any easier!