Yesterday, I made a quick trip out to deliver some turkey dinner to my mother. She tried to tell me I didn’t need to, but when I mentioned potatoes and gravy, she couldn’t hide how excited she was. 😀
It was just a quick stop, as she met me at the side door of her building, but she had a surprise for me, as well. It seems lots of people have been giving her sweet food gifts – far more than she can (or should!) eat. While the tin of shortbread cookies I gave her will keep well (I told her to have them with tea, when her lonely neighbour sneaks over for a visit), but some needs to be eaten more quickly.
So she gave me a bag with a box of chocolates someone had given her to take home. It wasn’t until then that I saw that these were a type I’d never seen before!
The writing on the package was in Polish!
Thankfully, the pictures that showed what the different chocolates were, had both Polish and English, though some of the translations still didn’t tell us what they were. At least, I hope not. I’ve never heard of avocado as a chocolate filling before…
I’m willing to try it, though!
My daughter picked up two 5 pound boxes of “ugly” chocolate from Purdy’s this year, so we won’t to into this box until those are done. 😀
I got a call from my sister this morning, letting me know that my mother wasn’t feeling well, so I called my mother to check on her. She was feeling pain in her bones, having trouble moving, but also stomach discomfort. So far, we’re not looking to take her to the hospital or anything; something she does not want to do again. She must have been feeling better by the time I called, though, because she began to lecture me on my gravy in the dinner I brought for her. Last year, she complained that I included “so much” bacon, which clearly meant we eat massive amounts of bacon, all the time (I’d included, at most, 2 slices from what I put on top of the turkey before roasting it). So I skipped the bacon completely this time. Now she’s complaining that the gravy is white instead of brown, and that I should have browned the flour first, but clearly I didn’t and just wanted to do things the “easy” way, and so on. I told her it was done exactly the same way as I did it last year, and turkey gravy is a white gravy. Because it’s turkey. But no. Gravy is supposed to be brown. It tastes better when it’s brown. Then she talked about how she learned to brown the flour in a pan, first, from her mother and describing how she did it. I told her I knew how to do it, because I’d learned how from watching her when I was a child. I just don’t do it. She sounded surprised by that. She always sounds so surprised that I know how to cook – even as I give her meals that I’ve cooked!
So… I figure she can’t be feeling too ill if she has that much energy to complain about the colour of the gravy that came with the Christmas dinner I brought for her.
*sigh*
Well, we shall see how she feels as the day goes on.
Meanwhile, she was kind enough to give us these beautiful chocolates from Poland that she didn’t want. Which I don’t mind at all! 🙂
The Re-Farmer
Thank you for sharing your Christmas story. I hope your mother is feeling better.
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Thank you!
I hope you had a wonderful Christmas. 🙂
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Avocado with chocolate is one of the new, trendy things out there. Supposedly they combine fairly well. Given than Avocado has a fairly mild flavor, I can believe it although I’ve never tried it. 🙂
Making a roux like your mother was talking about is something I still haven’t mastered. There’s a minor art to it. Personally, I care more about how a gravy tastes than how it looks though. After all, leave that gravy in the fridge for a few months and it’ll be brown. Probably won’t be very tasty or healthy though, LOL. 😀
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Avocado chocolate pudding is awesome. Avocado has a bit of a buttery taste.
A roux is tough. I made some for a gumbo and it takes patience.
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Patience?!? You expect patience from a microwave society???
😛 😀
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LOL!!
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Heh. This house doesn’t have a microwave.
“Patience is a virtue.” ~Evie (The Mummy)
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I’m getting more and more curious to try it now!! Assuming “advocaat” in the English translation actually means avocado…
Gumbo is something I have never tried. It’s just not a thing out here! Something else I’m curious about. 🙂
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I just threw “advocaat” in Google Translate. According to the ye olde Google Gods, it’s Dutch for “lawyer.” It would appear that avocado in Polish is “awokado.”
Then, I found this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advocaat
I love gumbo. I miss our Cajun restaurant that went under.
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Oh, my goodness! Thanks for finding that! I knew about the lawyer one, already, but advocaat sounds delicious!!
Much better than avocado filling… 😀
I think I’m going to have to find a recipe and just make gumbo. It’ll probably be the only way I’ll be able to try some! LOL
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There are plenty of recipes on the ‘net.
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I love avocado. I love chocolate. I never would have imagined the two together!!
The English translation actually reads “advocaat”. I’m just kinda of guessing that’s supposed to be avocado. There’s another one that has a “malaga” flavour. I’ll have to look up what that it! LOL
As for the roux… I was telling my sister about what my mother said (my sister *never* gets lectures like this. Ever.) and she found it hilarious. She always *hated* my mother’s burnt flour gravy. LOL
But to my mother, if it’s not a brown gravy, it can’t taste good! 😀
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The chocolates look SO GOOD.
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