Fun with Chipmunks

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From Flickr user powerpig who has many other great chipmunk and toy inspired pics.

My folks’ backyard is frequented by a number of chipmunks, squirrels, and an occasional ground hog. 

Over the years, there have been a few clever, comical chipmunks that have become friends. It’s not something that happened overnight, though. It took a lot of patience and persistence (and almonds!) to get them each of them to interact with me on a regular basis. At the culmination of this process, I could almost always call them to the yard just by whistling. 

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Chocolate Fried Chicken

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It sounds like something you’d get at a state fair, but no, it’s from a Los Angeles restaurant called Chocochicken.

Here’s some bits from a review in the LA Times.

  • He was craving mole and fried chicken at the same time and thought why not put chocolate and fried chicken together? The result is a chocolate fried chicken made from organic Jidori chicken soaked in a 36-hour brine, then coated in a crust with a mixture of 20 spices.
  • Fleischman uses 62% bittersweet chocolate from Coco Suisse, a local producer based in Beverly Hills. The chocolate is used in or on almost everything on the menu, including the fried chicken, the chocolate ketchup, duck fat fries and a special Choco seasoning. There’s also mashed potatoes with white chocolate chive butter, peppadews stuffed with sausage, black cherries, Parmesan, dark chocolate, herbs and Choco dust and bacon biscuits.
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