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Inspired by the cold-and-flu season, I was wondering what your go-to drinks are during the dark and cold months. Alcohol or without.
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Gotta have some hot chocolate once in a while on a frosty morning. I like to make mine with a good amount of a nice dark cocoa, cinnamon, & cayenne pepper. And don't forget a good splash of whipping cream. No marshmallows required.
Little dash of vanilla is nice too.
I JUST spent a few hours tweaking my hot chocolate recipe for a class I'm teaching tomorrow...here's my (for the moment) final recipe:
Hot Chocolate
4tbsp Butter
4tbsp Cocoa powder
4C Milk
8tbsp sugar
1tsp ground green cardamom
Procedure
1 Melt butter over medium heat, add cocoa, cardamom, and sugar. Stir until well-incorporated and fry for 1-2 minutes to extra fat-soluble compounds from cocoa and cardamom...careful to not scorch
2 Add milk, stir over heat until milk simmers
3 serve immediately...or after it cools a bit, depending on preference.
Not OMG by any stretch...but nice....comforting.
milk boiled with mince garlic and honey.
Have you found much difference when you fry the cocoa? I generally just add enough milk to the dry ingredients to form a paste, then add the rest of the milk.
milk boiled with mince garlic and honey.
Hahaha thats why I usually drink it before I go to bed Should have mention that:laughat:
Why? So that you wake up smelling like the Paris Metro? :lol2:
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El Pescador....is your tagline a reference to this?
[video=youtube;45C16tToen8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45C16tToen8[/video]
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