It’s funny. As excited as I get at the prospect of the post-holiday sales it took me until Saturday to finally get out and start looking for some bargains. I didn’t end up buying much. I got a bag of Mint Dark Chocolate Kit Kat Minis, a bag of Reese’s Miniatures (guilty pleasure of mine), and a half dozen Russell Stover Marshmallow Caramel Santas (which are wonderful in spite of bearing little semblance to Santa - apparently the non-caramel ones look more like Santa but these are barely recognizable as human). And that’s it. The only other chocolate I picked up this past week was a tin of the York Mints that I ran into at a gas station while out hunting for Amish furniture. They’re pretty good though I find them a little less minty that I would like (I’m an Ice Breakers addict so I like my mints really really minty).

But the biggest thing I found while out shopping this week was a cache of M&M’s Pirate Pearls! Three big bags of them, which, sadly, is all I’ve seen for months. There seemed to be no push to coincide with the release of the Pirates DVD and no matter where I looked I was unable to find even a little tiny bag. The ones I ran into this week were at a Drug Mart (Sawmill Rd up near Powell in case anybody in the Columbus area is looking). I’m thinking that drug stores, closeout stores, and the internet (hit up Amazon, Yahoo Shopping, and froogle) are probably the best bets for finding them now. I wish I had good news, but I’ve been looking for weeks and haven’t had a bit of luck until now.

Aside from all of that I’m trying to resurrect my recipe for raspberry truffles. I wrote down some notes when I made them the first time, but I can’t believe the notes I wrote are even close to correct. They call for a whole stick of butter, which I find very hard to believe. Anyway, these were some dangerous truffles. I wanted to get back to the base recipe I once had and share it with everybody, but I’m kind of starting from square one again. So, if I ever get it back to a point where I consider it acceptable I’ll be posting it. In the meantime I have a few items that I need to talk about.

Anyway, Happy New Year all!