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Tonight's theme became "Comfort Food." Cheesy pasta bake, red wine, and what one of our dear friends calls "Sneaky Chocolate Cake." Include laughter with good friends and dining alfresco, and that's the sign of a great Tuesday night dinner.
Alfresco dinner. First of the season.
This (recipe here) was yummy and just what the soul (and hips?) ordered, but since Megan always comes up with ways to change recipes, we thought next time we'd add some lemon zest to the sour cream/cottage cheese bit, and maybe add some red pepper flakes to the meat sauce. (Update: I forgot to add that we used gluten free pasta in this dish - brown rice pasta, actually.)
Dessert. Really, it's pretty much why we're here:
This is the "Sneaky Chocolate Cake"; I'll explain why it's so sneaky in a moment. We just took a gluten-free chocolate cake mix (we recommend Pamela's) and when it was just out of the oven, and therefore still screaming hot, we threw a bunch of chocolate chips (milk and white) on top and let them melt.
Then, we did this to it:
Hello, you sexy thing, you. Where have you been all my life???
(For the record, it's sneaky because it's possible that we might've added a bunch of shredded zucchini to the batter. You couldn't taste it, nor did it change the texture, it just added a "hint" of healthy. Granted, we didn't quite tell one of the dinner guests about said zucchini until well after she had enjoyed a mighty large piece of cake. That's another story...but we're not sorry about it!)
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