Steam, sausages, and chocolate

[vilakins]

We went on a steam-train trip yesterday: an hour's circuit taking us round Auckland and from one side of the country to the other and back, a less impressive feat than it sounds. Greg, devoted ferro-equinologist that he is, is down at one of the stations now, waiting to get a photo of the train thundering through. It's too hot for him to wear an anorak though. :-P Across the road from the station is Avon's Butchery. Avon (yes, he's really called that) has won awards for his sausages (What!) and Greg is buying some to whack on the barbie tonight along with the soy ones I bought for myself yesterday.

Which reminds me: I discovered Green & Black's organic fair-trade chocolate in the organic supermarket yesterday. Yay! I bought orange with spices, vanilla white, and extra cocoa. They didn't have the chilli various UK friends have raved about. I asked at the checkout and they said they'd see if it was available but I won't hold my breath. I had three squares of the orange last night. Yum. [craves some now]

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[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I bet it is. [wonders if the shop has it] I don't think they had Plamil's though. I've had chilli icecream several times, and chicken with mole sauce (cocoa and chilli), but not chocolate as such.

[hafren.livejournal.com]

chicken with mole sauce

The bit in brackets came too late to dispel the disgusting image now in my head...:)

G & B's Maya Gold is amazing. I haven't yet forgiven OH because when I wasted a square on him he said "it's all right". That y chromosome is missing a lot of genes.

[trixieleitz]

I'm fairly sure it's pronounced something like moe-lay. But I doubt that that helps ;)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

It is indeed.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

G & B's Maya Gold is amazing.

It is! I tried their white tonight; it had little flecks of real vanilla bean. Mmmmmm!

The mole sauce is pronounced to rhyme with olé. It just looks disgusting when written (and I couldn't help but think of Moley).

[kerravonsen]

It is! I tried their white tonight; it had little flecks of real vanilla bean.

Really? I normally hate white chocolate, but this intrigues me.
Mind you, the only place I've found Green & Black chocolate is at the Oxfam/Community-Aid-Abroad store in a particular City arcade.

[kalypso-v.livejournal.com]

Sorry, I don't really go for the Maya Gold either. But I've been stuffing myself with alternating squares of Vanilla and 70% Dark all evening.

[trixieleitz]

Ooh, I just remembered that the Plamil chocolate was marketed as cayenne chocolate. Might make a difference in finding it?

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I only got one hit for Plamil's in NZ and that was a link to a UK site. :-(