• Homemade mexican cornbread with cheese and green chilis

    mexican cornbread;

    January 17, 2025bestwithchocolate@gmail.com

    Take your homemade from-scratch cornbread up a notch with this super easy Mexican Cornbread. With whole corn kernels and a Mexican flair, this cornbread is good for more than just Taco Tuesday!

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  • date night dinner & a show: all about hamilton

    July 31, 2018bestwithchocolate@gmail.com

    So this past weekend we got to see Hamilton at the Kennedy Center! If you happen to have been living under a rock and have no idea what I’m talking about, it’s a 2h 45min musical about Alexander Hamilton and the other founding fathers culminating in the duel where Aaron Burr killed Hamilton. It’s got insanely catchy music, fusing hip hop, R&B, pop, soul, and rap, and color-casts non-white actors with deliberation. It’s a crazy piece of history, both in the telling and the making, and it’s also just good old fun. The Kennedy Center production we saw was amazing.…

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  • Tamale Pie @ bestwithchocolate.com

    tamale pie;

    April 14, 2016bestwithchocolate@gmail.com

    Corn bread, and beef, and cheese, oh my! This is a great make-ahead meal!  We had a game night with a friend coming over, and I was going to try to not actually be in the kitchen making dinner for like half of his visit (like I usually am most times when people visit for dinner).  I do love our current place for the fact that it has an open layout, and I can actually be in the kitchen talking to other people in both the living room area and the dining room area, and the kicker–NOT in my kitchen.  It’s the…

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