my spellchecker doesn't recognize the word "smore"..... maybe because i left out the apostrophe....

The other day my family and I discovered toasted coconut marshmallows. You buy them in a bag, like regular marshmallows, and they are like regular marshmallows, except that they are coated in toasted coconut (the best kind of coconut). By themselves they are perfectly okay but they make the best smores. In fact the bag even has a recipie for using them as smores, and while smores are something I usually file under the "Didja really need a recipe for that?!" category (right next to the recipe for a ham sandwich on the back of the mayonnaise jar), this one is actually nice because it tells you how long to microwave the marshmallow for (15 to 20 seconds) so that it puffs up all nice and warm and gooey - and then you just mash the top graham cracker on the whole thing and mmmmmm.

So today in chef class I'm talking to my good buddy James, who's assistant kitchen manager at The Melting Pot, a restaurant that serves nothing but fondue (and they overcharge you for it), and I'm telling him about toasted coconut marshmallows and how great I bet they'd be in a chocolate fountain, or in fondue, and he says "at work we have marshmallows coated in oreo cookie pieces." The story ends there because I'd hate to accidentally imply that my good buddy would ever give away the recipe for anything at a place where he worked, because he'd never do that - but, to change the subject, I have a little secret to share with you guys: put a little water on a marshmallow, and it turns out you can stick it to anything. Now if you excuse me, I have some new marshmallow possibilities to go consider....