Once again, I drew dessert. Researching Southwestern desserts online has led me to some awful atrocities that rival Sandra Lee in terms of half-assed awfulness. So, I decided to head south of the border and made dark chocolate truffles with cayenne peppers and cinnamon. Think of the truffles as tiny balls of Mexican chocolate. Well, they're missing cloves, but I didn't think to infuse the heavy cream with cloves at the time I was making the ganache.
I didn't spare any spices, so the truffles packed a punch. The cinnamon was immediately noticeable, but the cayenne peppers insidiously encroached upon one's taste buds. Sorry Amanda!
Other dishes include:
Blueberry lemonade. The lemonade was super tart and super refreshing. It complemented the cheese-heavy potluck and the sweet truffles very well.
Beer guacamole. I love avocados, and the guacamole was amazing. Unfortunately, because I'm such an observant person, I mistook the avocado pits for heirloom tomatoes and almost swallowed one! In my defense, they were very small pits.
Nachos! You can't go wrong with plain melted cheese on tortilla, but the one with black beans and jalapenos were extra tasty.
Strawberry salsa to go with, well, everything! Normally I up the contrast and saturation a bit because the photos I take usually look washed out, but this salsa was so vibrant that no contrast/saturation adjustments were needed.
Quesadillas! We had both chicken and cheese quesadillas, and they were both delicious.
Speaking of quesadillas, we pronounce the word really weirdly at the office. Amanda pronounces it as "kay-sa-dyllahs," and we snowballed from there. "Kway-sa-diyas," "kray-so-dealahs," and my contribution, "kay-so-dillos."
And then we discussed the recent research on how to pronounce "Taco Bell" based on this article, because apparently people from Arizona pronounce it completely differently from the rest of the country. Yep, we're the best.
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