I won the war! Time to celebrate!

The results are in, the bodies have been collected, the death count has been furnished and the winner is...
Yes, that's right. I won the war! I beat one of mankind's most tenacious enemies, at least temporarily. The vile, despicable creature that refused to pay rent has, as of this moment, been evicted from the premises. The victory had its setbacks however. The first setback was my inability to find the nest. This made it difficult for me to set up my weapons in the most opportune places. However, after observing their movements for several days, and eliminating some more of them with the raid, I happened upon their lair almost by accident.

I thought this was a fitting image to place at the beginning. This is one of those three inchers you typically find.

I think it was still alive because the back leg that you can see sticking straight up was moving all about.

On Saturday the plumber came to repair my kitchen drain which, until then, had been clogged. After he left he threw out a large glop of nasty drain muck into my trash can, and some of it seeped outside the bag and into the can itself. Now in case you weren't aware I have a rather fancy trash disposal container that has several parts. Well I took out the trash can casing and guess what I found underneath? Yes, the lair! I raided the poor devils, raining an armageddon of insecticides more dense than the ash at Pompeii. Yes it was brutal, and there were many dead, but I needed to restore peace in my kingdom and the path of fire and brimstone seemed to be the most logical choice.

All the wet stuff? Yeah, that's the raid. The little back dots are the little critters.

Fallen soldiers.

Yet another fell for its cause.

Here I washed out the trash shell to disinfect it so the little critters don't make a comeback in the future. 

This is probably not the best time to mention it as the sight of roaches doesn't quite stir the appetite, but I tried my very first Havana Alfajor just the other day. One of my students gave it to me as a return from holidays present. For those of you who don't know, Alfajores are probably the most recognized cookie in Argentina, and hands down the most popular. Havana Alfajores can only be described as the Ben & Jerry's of the Alfajor cookie world, not because they do anything different or crazy, but because they produce a quality product that never ceases to satisfy. They come in shiny gold wrappers reminiscent of Wonka bars, and when it is straight from the refrigerator, nice and cool and ready for eating, the taste can melt your soul. 

Here is my first Havana Alfajor.

The exquisite golden wrapper!

Alfajores are usually coated in white or dark chocolate on the outside. As you can see this one is the dark chocolate variety.

Mmmm, Inside are two cookies with dulce de leche spread in between them. The flavor is truly remarkable.