Blue Cheese Brownies

Going Back.

It was hard just to find this picture.

Circa: Barely 2005.

The thought of Blue Cheese and Chocolate was given to me as a challenge for the most part.

Something leftover from the former holder of my position at Charleston Chops. (R.I.P.)

A late night conversation about how Jeff always wanted to pair blue cheese with chocolate and the guy before me was determined to do it...

I was more determined, no offense to that guy.

It's still evolving though.

For so long now, I've been watching and reading about all these trendy spots mixing Chocolate with Bacon.............................................Yeah. OK. It's not as weird as it sounds, and if it gets someone into Food Arts WhyTF am I not in it? I didn't know that when I realized that Chocolate worked better with savory foods, that other people didn't know that. Now it's all over the place. I'm not looking for anything, I'm just sayin....

So, years ago this picture comes out of Chops kitchen and is met with luke warm to cold response and duely so, it's hard for someone to wrap their mind around, along with their taste buds and also being 4 to 5 years ago. I might be wrong actually, it was probably longer.

This happens a lot though, someone gets to be well known for their...oh, lets say their "General Tso's so and so item" It's not like you talked to them about this idea while you worked with them, or placed this item on a personal tasting menu of yours, it's more the fact that someone else maybe forgot that you placed that little gem in their brain a year or so prior to them coming up with it. No, it's more about the guy or girl that's in the moment. The one or two lucky ones that hold the limelight and can put on display anything that you haven't read about yet and claim it as their own. Well, nothings new, I know that. There's no Patent on food. There is that one guy that's trying to though.

That is why food is art, it's interpretation. It's the individual human that made it their way that one time that makes it "theirs".

Bygones be bygones (i don't really know what that means really), under the bridge.

I am a little jealous though. I wish my vision and version of savory chocolate would have struck a nerve with someone years ago. And I'm glad it's still gonna live on. I put the word out to Jeff to "add Bacon Fat to the recipe" like replacing the butter!

Chocolate.

Blue Cheese.

Bacon.

That should be on a tombstone.

Really.