It's a good thing when your show-off dish is easy to make

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I think everybody should have at least one dish that they can make and bring places that everyone loves. Lis has two -- she makes an incredible baklava and an incredible fudge. I've got two -- cheesecake and chocolate pie. Cheesecake is fun to make, but it takes like a dozen ingredients, hours, and vaguely tricky timing. It's not actually that difficult, but it's a bit of a pain.

But my chocolate pie is EASY. And that means that I've got a show-off dish that I can just, y'know, MAKE.

I've made two this morning. Took about an hour for both of 'em. vonbeck suggested putting cinnamon sticks on the hot one to distinguish them, which is what I'm going to do. I like the chili pepper idea, but I don't have chili peppers, and I DO have cinnamon sticks.