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schoolpsychnerd and I picked up the custom of celebrating Valentine's Day and White Day while we lived in Japan, and so as is our tradition, we went out to dinner at a local restaurant--Mango Pickle this year, after my initial choice wouldn't reply to my inquiries about a reservation--and she cooked me a chocolate dessert! Traditionally, women make men chocolate on Valentine's Day, and while schoolpsychnerd has done that before, it's a lot of work and there are other things I like better than homemade chocolate. Chocolate cheesecake was a past favorite. This year, she combined an offer to bake me oatmeal raisin cookies after hearing that the snack room at work no longer carried them with Valentine's Day and made cocoa oatmeal raisin cookies:

They're delicious and I've already eaten a dozen of them.