chez susan

if there's one place i would like to be right now, it's chez susan (preferably in the midst of what she does best...design aside...she designs pretty damn well too).

who is susan?

susan is my amazing co-worker that bakes to de-stress.

now, i'm going to ignore the irksome things that happened today and even pretend like my molar doesn't have a jaggy, horrible hole in it...

because i want to tell you about susan's baking.

this morning, i received these chocolate/sugar covered orange rinds...and they were, quite possibly, the highlight of my day.

every bite was like riding the crest of a citrus wave into a tangy-sweet bay of wonder where dreams are made of gum drops and the sun is lemon yellow...a place where vitamin c is rampant and no one ever has scurvy.

yeah. they were that good.

and i can't forget about last week...

the goodies she gifted us for our co-worker's baby shower bonanza...

for this particular celebration, susan made us chocolate covered cream puffs (both whipped cream and custard varieties), meringues, AND chocolate covered strawberries.

their tastiness was so paramount that i didn't even notice the fact that i had gotten completely full after the one cream puff...and managed a meringue, a chocolate-covered strawberry and a vanilla bar (which was made by my pregger co-worker...which were very tasty, but i didn't get a photo of them).

naturally, i felt like dying after eating all those sweets...but death by dessert never seemed like a bad way to go.

upon further reflection, i realize that i would like to master desserts to this degree at some point in my life.

perhaps it's something else to put on the resolution list...

...oh, like i don't have enough things on the list already...