{"id":804,"date":"2009-01-18T12:24:22","date_gmt":"2009-01-18T17:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/?p=804"},"modified":"2009-01-18T12:24:22","modified_gmt":"2009-01-18T17:24:22","slug":"the-truffle-shuffle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/the-truffle-shuffle\/","title":{"rendered":"The Truffle Shuffle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kristian and I spent the day, yesterday, hanging out with a couple of friends, making truffles. I supposed that I should say that we hung out with them while <em>they<\/em> made truffles, because they are actually culinary people who have had formal training and aren&#8217;t pre-disposed towards melting butter in the microwave when you&#8217;re supposed to just be softening it up (I steadfastly maintain that I set the power level to ten percent. I have no idea how things got so melty). Kristian made most of dinner. I was a bit like dead weight&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; Until it was time to shape the truffles. And then it was Hope&#8217;s time to shine! You see, I have abnormally cold hands. Hands that are as cold as ice. Hands (and feet, actually) that make Kristian shriek when I use his belly or back to warm them up. Hands that would make Edward Cullen himself go, &#8220;Damn, that&#8217;s cold.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hands like mine tend to be a definite liability when it comes to touching other people and <em>not<\/em> making them flinch. But, when it comes to shaping truffles? Let&#8217;s just say that my friend gave up on the whole shaping the truffles thing when his gloves were coated in chocolate (tasty, tasty chocolate) after only shaping a few. So, he stuck to portioning out the chocolate while my cold hands did their thing. Sometimes these ice digits are a blessing and not a curse.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Those truffles were <em>delicious<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Nicely shaped, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kristian and I spent the day, yesterday, hanging out with a couple of friends, making truffles. I supposed that I should say that we hung out with them while they&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-great-blog-off"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yggS-cY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":805,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804\/revisions\/805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}