April 28, 2006

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The Truth About Hot Chocolate!.bmp

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Ingredients
3 Tbsp 100% pure cocoa powder (look at the ingredients, what's there? there should be one word, Cocoa. If there are two or more words, it isn't pure. Go back to the store!)
2 Tbsp sugar
1/4 tsp vanilla (either pure extract or imitation, it's better with the extract and you know it!)
1 Ghirardelli 60% dark square (or one Dove dark in a pinch/Haifa)
1 tsp cinnamon powder
1 1/2 cups milk
1/2 Tbsp butter

I have been experimenting with chocolate beverages since we went to the Max Brenner's in Haifa. If you don't like this recipe, I will return every penny that you've paid me to subscribe to my blog, this is a limited time offer! ACT NOW! As soon as I start charging to subscribe to my blog, this offer will EXPIRE!

Do not throw these things into a sauce pan and hope for the best, it will cause you a lot of trouble.

1. Melt the butter and the Ghirardelli chocolate square in a sauce pan on low heat

Do not bring them to a boil or a sizzle!

2. Sprinkle the sugar on top of this mixture
3. Sprinkle the cocoa powder on top of the sugar
4. Add vanilla to the top of this
5. Add cinnamon
6. Cursorily mix with a wooden spoon (the sauce pan should still be over low heat)
7. Add 1/4 cup milk, Mix thoroughly
Trust me when I say, "thoroughly," you're not mixing thoroughly enough

8. When mixture is mixed thoroughly, there are no chunks floating around and the fluid in the sauce pan is a rich dark brown (it's not a rich dark brown? Well, add some more cocoa powder) add the rest of the milk and heat the concoction to the desired temperature.

Serve and enjoy. Makes 1/2 a serving.

Posted by Mendon at April 28, 2006 12:39 AM
Comments

Serve immediately after a trip to Cold Stone Creamery.

Oooph.

Posted by: Kristen at April 28, 2006 1:35 AM

Sounds yummy! And very not something I should ever indulge in! I have gained back the weight I lost with surgery, chemo and radiation and am in danger of not stopping the process! I have to start being careful after almost six months of unbridled indulgence.

Posted by: ma at April 28, 2006 9:33 AM

Does this mean, Maman, that you have a bunch of size 10 summer clothes you don't know what to do with? :-D

(hint: daughter in Haifa wears size 10 and sent all of her summer clothes to reside at your house because she is just a tad obsessively organized!)

Posted by: Mara at April 28, 2006 10:21 AM

Mensch, based on a diet of honey and chocolate doesn't this contain 100% of the Vitamin A, Vitamin C, B6 and B12 recommended? As in, based on a diet of honey and chocolate - this recipe meets the needs of the absolute lack of all of the above things?!

Posted by: mara at April 28, 2006 11:03 AM

Honey is very rich in vitamins, thank you very much.

Posted by: Mendon at April 28, 2006 12:08 PM

No, Mara, what it means is that I have bought a bunch of size 10 pants and I want to stay in them. Okay, so I'm 5 pounds less than I was before surgery. I think if them as my buffer.

Posted by: ma at April 28, 2006 2:11 PM

Well, she is buffer than before so what's the big deal. Chocolate is good for your heart and soul: in moderation of course. The heart and soul need chocolate in a multitude(defined as a myriad) of formulae. This one sounds just riche enuff for a size fourteen pair of pants that's all.

Posted by: papa at April 29, 2006 6:58 AM