

Let me be the bearer of good news here: cheesecakes are pretty easy. And the mud? A goat cheese cheesecake spiked with coffee, creamy and sweet with a slightly bitter tang, balanced by handfuls of chocolate chips.

The topping? A dense semisweet chocolate ganache with halved Oreos plopped across the top. We’re bringing back a childhood classic and giving it the old Sookie twist. Even though Sookie’s pies were brimming with chocolate cookies and bittersweet ganache and Rory’s were made of, well, mud, they were identical. The one failed attempt at food chitchat that is truly precious is Sookie’s description of an eight year old Rory’s legendary mud pies. Sookie seeks out fresh mussels but informs the table that they need to be fresh, or they just end up lying around in their own excrement. Jackson maligns the current carrot harvest and wants to track down the restaurant’s carrot vendor.

#EPISODE CHOOSE YOUR STORY GAME TUMBLR SANTA FULL#
And in the midst of snipping and talking and crates of veggies and kitchen adventures, they start to fall for each other, culminating in a deeply awkward first date chock full of food talk in Episode 12. They have weirdly animated conversations about blueberries and squash blossoms. Even more delightful than Sookie’s first date ‘do that clearly follows the wisdom that “the higher the hair, the closer to God.” Oh holy baby-beehive: Okay, completely fictional food love stories. “Double Date” is the beginning of one of the great food love stories of our time.
