that's so strange (another instance of synchronicity right there!),
cinnamon was tonight's special ingredient in my chili! i like
to experiment with different tastes, sometimes i add some cocoa
or dark chocolate, sometimes i use beer instead of broth or
add some kind of soft drink for sweetness etc. this time it was
cinnamon, to give it that special winter-y, christmas-y taste,
and it turned out just awesome!

oh, and alp-monkey that you are, you can surely appreciate what i had for desert:
rye bread with "eimalzin crisp" spread! i'm addicted to that stuff,
it's way better than ovomaltine, but kinda pricy and hard to get here
(fortunately, there's a Migros in my hometown, so i stocked up on eimalzin
and tiger fondue over the holidays, but up here in cologne, that stuff is
almost impossible to come by!).