I Love You Chocolate Pudding

½ cup sugar
2 tablespoons cornstarch or all purpose flour
Dash salt
2 ¼ cups milk
2 beaten egg yolks or 1 beaten egg
1 tablespoon butter or margarine
1 ½ teaspoons vanilla

In a medium saucepan stir together sugar, cornstarch or flour, and salt/ stir in milk, along with ½ cup semi-sweet chocolate pieces. Cook and stir over medium heat till thickened and bubbly. Reduce heat, then cook and stir 2 minutes more. Remove from heat.

Gradually stir about half of the hot mixture into egg yolks or egg. Return to mixture in saucepan. If using egg yolks, bring to gentle boil; if using whole egg, cook till nearly bubbly but do not boil. Reduce heat. Cook and stir 1 to 2 minutes more. Remove from heat. Stir in butter or margarine and vanilla. Pour mixture into a bowl. Cover surface with clear plastic wrap or waxed paper. Chill without stirring.

Serve your Valentine with lots of I love you kisses!

Makes 4 servings

And what would chocolate be without
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory Rules

Grandpa Joe: Mr. Wonka?

Willy Wonka: [pointedly ignoring them]
I am extraordinarily busy, sir.

Grandpa Joe: [tentatively] I just wanted
to ask about the chocolate - Uh,
the lifetime supply of chocolate...
for Charlie. When does he get it?

Willy Wonka: He doesn't.

Grandpa Joe: Why not?

Willy Wonka: Because he broke the rules.

Grandpa Joe: What rules?
We didn't see any rules.
Did we, Charlie?

Q. Why is there no such organization
as Chocoholics Anonymous?
A. Because no one wants to quit.


Life is like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- Forrest Gump

The 12-step chocoholics program:
Never be more than 12 steps away
from Chocolate!
– Terry Moore