A Little Afternoon Delight

Weekends are for relaxing at home. And this is my version of an afternoon delight!

It all started with a trip to my local gourmet shop. I went in for a loaf of fresh French baguette, but I surfaced with these chocolate goodies. Snack-perfect Chocolatour bars are a great prelude to imaginary trips around the cocoa-plantations of Tanzania, Dominican Republic, Grenada, and Ecuador.

Scharffen Berger natural cocoa powder and 99% dark chocolate bars were calling for a mid-day project.

So I dug through my old recipe files to come up with these Nutty Double Chocolate Cookies, replacing half of the unsweetened cocoa powder for grated chocolate.

Sprinkle, sprinkle, sprinkle with icing sugar...

After toiling in the kitchen, I felt like I deserved a break and made a beeline for my closet of goodies. The beauty stuff: Fresh Umbrian Clay mask, Benefit's Honey Scrub Out of It exfoliator, Guinot Biologique algae gel mask, Philosophy's Hope in a Jar face cream, and Palmer's Cocoa Butter Stretch Mark cream.

I sprinkled a handful of pink Himalayan sea salt crystals to a running bath. Warming, soothing, embracing, relaxing, and calming waters met my very tired body. I gave myself a luxurious facial and I closed my eyes to rest.

My secret obsession on a lazy afternoon? Glossy, international fashion magazines!

Then at night, I got ready for a friend's birthday dinner at lol resto lounge. Ahhh...a satisfying day altogether!