It's National Chocolate Day so I'll speak to that :)

Here's how I feel about it. 

   Seriously though, my chocoholic sister actually updated me on the "specialness" of today and said, "It's National Chocolate day!! " What will they think of next? Every day is something now, I really don't keep up with it, I'm a traditionalist by nature and these new national dog day and wash-a-pet day and cousin twice-removed day and such wasn't in our tradition growing up. But chocolate!!!!! I mean come on!! I have to at least give a token nod of existence here on my blog. It's chocolate!!! 

       What's really quite crazy is I had been up since 6 a.m.baking nothing but chocolate this and chocolate that however, my venture was not in celebration of the day at all, I didn't even know about it, no,it was for a more important reason.......mom had a craving. That's it. And you know what they say....

      Anywho, I had to keep it safe though so I  didn't upset any allergies around here and a friend of mine told me about the website chocolatecoveredkatie.com and this gal, Katie is super healthy but loves chocolate and is always trying to play around and tweek the more unhealthy versions and make them healthy. She makes stuff "everything" friendly. You name it gluten- free, dairy-free, peanut-free, she's got something for everyone and I love all her recipes so far. 

  So for starters this is her healthy but doesn't taste like it Chocolate Peanut Butter Banana bread. 

 

For breakfast we had Gluten-Free Chocolate chip pancakes, they are sooooo yummy !!! I acutually had this recipe already but Katie has one too. 

And for an evening snack I made my favorite mini-chocolate chip muffins and these are also gluten-free and almost sugar-free by using agave nectar and maple syrup instead. I'm grinning because..... why not? 

Here's an interesting chocolate fact I found. You can't believe everything you read on the internet but I can't  find anything saying this isn't true, who knows...