Dulce de Leche

This dulce de leche is wildly popular in Latin America. Every dessert menu offers something with dulce de leche. Pancakes, muffins, candy, bananas, ice-cream made with it, etc. I'm not a fan. It's caramel- sticky and so so so so so sweet. I couldn't take it. It's not about bouncing off the walls, it's about getting a sugar-induced headache on a system that lacks sleep and is more or less exhausted each morning and drained at the end of the night.

Although I must note that the Italian food here has been pretty good at any casual cafe I've walked into. Mostly hearty, down-to-earth recipes from Southern Italy. The pasta is freshly made in the kitchens of all restaurants and taste glorious, although I've to emphasize to use LESS oil in mine.

I've been refusing dessert at meals. Just one bite of anything sweet makes the stomach churn. The desserts here are too heavy duty on the sugar. And I seem to have completely lost my appetite. All I want to eat is fruits, or 3 mouthfuls of something, and then I'm done. I don't have the leisure nor inclination to look at food, or check out restaurants. The schedule is so hectic that I find sitting down to meals an absolute waste of time when I can churning out notes and doing other miscellaneous things that have been tasked for immediate completion.

But I ate tiny piece of dark chocolate that day. If I didn't, I would keel over. The exhaustion just swept in like a wave (for the want of a better word) in a bad way. I struggled very hard to keep the eyelids open during the meeting over drinks. The dark chocolate was full of cacao and kept me awake during dinner later, and stoned.