"The turkey is a turkey, you turkey!"
Dec. 4th, 2023 07:24 pmClass is done save for the Mapping final on Thursday. Feeling ... relatively confident? Guess I'll see in a few weeks.
Xmas shopping is mostly done, and should be entirely done by this time next week. It better be, since much of it needs to be shipped.
Last week I was craving hot chocolate, which is usually a Problem since commercial hot chocolate always feels watery. I got my mother's recipe for hot chocolate mix today but I don't think I'll be making it. This is a recipe for making enough hot chocolate to give as Xmas presents to pretty much everyone. "Makes about 19 cups," it says, and that's 19 dry cups of mix, not "cups of hot chocolate."
But I bought myself cocoa powder in the grocery haul this week anyway, and found a more reasonable-sized recipe online and tried it out this evening. If the only secret to good hot chocolate is "use milk instead of water" I will be mildly annoyed but mostly happy that it's that easy. For the second mug I added a couple drops of orange extract instead of vanilla and it was like drinking a chocolate orange.
So I had hot chocolate in one of my big Xmas tree mugs that I scavenged four(!) years ago when my folks moved from a giant house into a small apartment, and watched Muppet Family Christmas (and teared up at Jim Henson's cameo at the end, as always), and generally feel better combobulated after a somewhat stressful Sunday. I get grumpy about seeing Christmas stuff before December but I do enjoy the season in its proper place and time.
I hope you're all well and warm and loved.
Xmas shopping is mostly done, and should be entirely done by this time next week. It better be, since much of it needs to be shipped.
Last week I was craving hot chocolate, which is usually a Problem since commercial hot chocolate always feels watery. I got my mother's recipe for hot chocolate mix today but I don't think I'll be making it. This is a recipe for making enough hot chocolate to give as Xmas presents to pretty much everyone. "Makes about 19 cups," it says, and that's 19 dry cups of mix, not "cups of hot chocolate."
But I bought myself cocoa powder in the grocery haul this week anyway, and found a more reasonable-sized recipe online and tried it out this evening. If the only secret to good hot chocolate is "use milk instead of water" I will be mildly annoyed but mostly happy that it's that easy. For the second mug I added a couple drops of orange extract instead of vanilla and it was like drinking a chocolate orange.
So I had hot chocolate in one of my big Xmas tree mugs that I scavenged four(!) years ago when my folks moved from a giant house into a small apartment, and watched Muppet Family Christmas (and teared up at Jim Henson's cameo at the end, as always), and generally feel better combobulated after a somewhat stressful Sunday. I get grumpy about seeing Christmas stuff before December but I do enjoy the season in its proper place and time.
I hope you're all well and warm and loved.