Beignets and butt swords!

Travis and Rachel

Beignets! 

Appalachian Trails and French presses

Rach, stand here and hold this chocolate! Ok, move over here! No, here!

Beignet night with two of the three Semenov Sisters (A. Lydia, we missed you. B. That is totally your indie band name. You're welcome.) and the Hammill Brothers. Travis made the beignets, I made the chocolate/coffee sauce, and Carson and Rachel supervised. Ahna picked all the trashy movies. We watched RoboGeisha. Yes, that is a real movie. Don't believe me? Watch these:

On a lighter note (or not, considering all the butter and sugar), here is the recipe for the chocolate/coffee sauce. It was amazing and this is coming from someone who only truly craves chocolate during the hormonal rampage of ladytimes. What? Oh calm down, I just showed you acidic breast milk fighting. The time for tact has passed. Ladies, you know. 

Chocolate coffee sauce (adapted from Lara Ferroni)

ingredients
3 Tbsp butter
1/2 cup heavy cream
1/2 cup dark brown sugar
1/3 cup brewed (and strong) coffee
4 or 5 oz. dark chocolate (I used two bars of Ghirardelli Midnight Reverie 86% cacao), chopped or broken into chunks

- Heat cream, sugar, butter, and coffee on medium-low heat until butter and sugar have melted completely.
- Add chocolate and remove from heat. Wait a minute or two until chocolate has melted. Whisk until smooth.
- Drizzle over everything. Run of out of beignets? Use your fingers. Shoot, I did. No shame.