Chocoholic Anonymous

Well, more or less anyway.

For those of you who don’t know, my roughly 3 month hiatus from this blog was due to the birth of my first child – a beautiful baby boy.

Towards the end of my pregnancy I really didn’t feel up to baking and I wasn’t supposed to be spending any time on my feet (doctor’s orders).  I rather naively thought I’d be able to get back to baking once the baby was born – he’d be sleeping a lot, right?

While he does in fact sleep quite a bit it has taken him nearly 2 months to settle into something sort of resembling a schedule.  Now that he has, I will be baking more frequently which means I’ll be back to posting here again.  I apologize for my long absence, but it was what I needed to find some balance in my life again.

Despite the very young age of my blog I am already getting inundated with spam comments.  I would much rather read the real comments from all of you without having to filter through and moderate a multitude of spam comments.  So, I decided to add a Captcha image to the comment form.  I know they can be somewhat of a pain, so I apologize, but I felt it was a necessary step.

If you would like to avoid dealing with the Captcha, please feel free to register for the blog.  Registered users who are logged in will not be prompted to enter Captcha information.  Registration links can be found in the right sidebar.

Since this is the very first post in this area I believe an explanation is in order.  The Chit Chat area of Chocoholic Anonymous is dedicated to exploring new recipes (and some old favorites) with you, my guests.

This is where I will describe my successes, my failures, and my trials and tribulations along the way to either.  Most of the posts here will include full recipes (unless I decide it is unethical to post them) and photographic evidence of my attempts to create culinary gems.

I encourage you to visit, and comment, frequently.  All I ask is that you keep the content of your comments appropriate (no vulgarity please!).  At this point in time I commit myself to reading all comments on this site and replying as frequently as I can (and I hope I never have to rescind that commitment).