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What better way to ring in the cold weather season than with a steaming cup of hot cocoa and a peppermint rice krispie treat. Yum!
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I finally had one of these at the Borders in my hometown, in the afternoon of a long day of post-Christmas shopping and errands. This store was actually a holdout as a Borders Cafe for sometime after all the Chicago-area stores had switched to Seattle's Best cafes, so I made sure to stop and have the special Borders coffee while it was still available. But it's been an SBC for a while now. My mom (that's her Wine Spectator magazine in the corner) tried a little of this.
1/2 c. multigrain oats, cooked in fresh black coffee
1 packet fat-free hot cocoa powder with mini marshmallows
1 tsp. brown sugar
1 T. orange juice
Topped with dry-roasted peanuts
What better way to enjoy the rains at my office, than dig into some hot chocolate to stay warm inside while it's wet outside. Of course, getting a hot bajji/pakora/samosa would have been my first choice :)
Orange cake free with coupon. The cafe worker was really frazzled/overworked even after another employee showed up, and put on peppermint bits instead of white chocolate, and offered to remake it--but I liked the peppermint much better than white chocolate, and wouldn't complain about something like that anyway! Wonder if I could request peppermint...
Well a lot has happened this past month! I have been working my butt off catching A LOT of overtime at INKtastic.com
We have had so many orders this month :)
To make it short, I sold the ef 50mm 1.4 I know that is not a surprise to those of you who follow me on here. After all, I go through glass like non other. I just can't find the right one for me. Until recently however. I have been saving for a few months now and from all the over time, I will be purchasing the ef 35mm 1.4 next week. I am stoked and I know I will not want to get rid of this lens. After that, I will get the ef 135mm f/2. I may or may not get a ef 50mm 1.8ii to fill the gap. I am just not a big fan of the 50mm range. After all of that, my lens collection will be pretty much complete.
My new years resolution is to go full frame by the end of the year and actually get a camera that doesn't break after taking 5 pictures this time.
So how is everyone? What are you all up to? Any new years resolutions?
p.s. I love the iPhone 4. <3
My Christmas list wasn't long enough for my mom (it really didn't have much on it beyond socks and Barnes & Nobel gift cards), so I asked for Fiestaware, which is something I have wanted, but would never do for myself.
Mom & Dad got us 8 place settings! 4 in Cobalt and 4 in Lemongrass. I love it and I'm so glad to be rid of the Pfaltzgraff we had....if I had known about Fiestaware when I made my registry, that is what I would have gotten.
I'm experimenting with flavoring hot chocolate. Anyone have any good ideas?
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serves 2
500 cl milk
125 cl double cream
50 g dark chocolate
2 tablespoons Dutch processed cocoa
2 tablespoons dark brown sugar
Put milk, double cream and chocolate in a saucepan and heat slowly until the chocolate has melted. Combine cocoa and sugar in a cup, add some of the milk mixture to make a thick paste. Pour this back into the saucepan and whisk over medium heat until properly heated through.
Sometimes I like to slip in little hershey bricks in as decorcations, but you have to present it before the whipped cream melts
Back at the border we realised we'd forgotten a spoon to mix the hot water from the flask with the hot chocolate powder. This is what we used instead.