since its been so cold...

[dvlnblkdrs]

How do you make your cocoa???


i take 16 oz of milk, microwave for 3 minutes exactly, scoop out the fat that sits on top. put in 1 envelope of nestle cocoa in. mix 10 stirs counter clockwise then 10 stirs clockwise, until i reach 100 total stirs or cocoa powder is mixed. then pour into mug & enjoy.

yea, i know, im very specific.. i also have a cocoa machine i use on occasion, but thats more for those times i add in some peppermint kisses er something... :wub:

[Rich k]

Ok i think we can officially annoint dvlnblkdrs as the Yariswold Hot Coco guru. :P Are you that particular about most things? I'm not judging, i get like that about lots of stuff i find it refreshing when other people do as well. Onto my coco preperation....While your method sounds yummie, I'm lactose intolerant :( so it also sounds painfull. If i can find a mix without milk i have to add it to hot water or soymilk, or almond milk. Not the way to really enjoy hot coco.

[dvlnblkdrs]

i am indeed that particular with things.. i like even numbers, love to count random things like stairs and yaris on the road.. too much sesame street i guess.. lol

at work i do a quickened version with a scoop of powdered creamer and water... tastes just as good.. well almost.. and less calories too, like 90 cals i believe...

[Rich k]

hrm less calories is good, lost 100 lbs 2 years ago like to keep it off. Trying to get back to my hs mile time of 5:04, just for giggles.

[dvlnblkdrs]

my high school mile time was... 12:30 on a good day :biggrin:

[Rain]

i cant even count to a hundred

[Sabretooth]

I have a Flavia Machine that makes my cocoa....too bad it doesnt use milk instead of water... I could do it myself with milk and see how that would go. Just the packet and milk

[GeneW]

Can't do cocoa but your recipe isn't bad. You sound like you have a touch of obsessive compulsive disorder. Ever consider being an accountant or working with dangerous materials? They pay well and you get rewarded for being so fastidious.

When I could eat chocolate I used to line up M&Ms into shapes and then eat them in a way that I could group the colors in the form of trigonal numbers (1, 3, 6, 10 and so on), even or odd numbers or in some other order. Probably an artifact of being a Math student for many years or something along those lines.

I've considered doing a short video with Skittles and showing how it's done but figure that someone would send the men with the butterfly nets after me.

Yeah, and I also try to make my car line up with the lines in the parking lot, I check the locks on the doors and have a few other "check" routines". Finally found a job where that kind of behavior is considered good - I work with very high powered stuff and could be fried if I don't check stuff repeatedly.

Gene

[TinyGiant]

try making hot chocolate with soymilk... it'll be way better.. milk taints the flavor of the chocolate.. after drinking soy milk for so long .. i cant stand milk.. it taste metalic and nasty... Humans are the only mamal that will drink milk .. A. past infancy and B. from a different mammal.

you could even use the vanilla soy milk to add some extra flavor. (no fat to skim off the top too :) )

[SIPNGAS]

I just find it funny that someone from Hunting Beach, CA is talking about how cold it's been and the need for hot chocolate. It's all relative, I know...but still amusing to me none-the-less. Hot chocolate is a must around here after a day of sledding! And when you're that cold, Swiss Miss with milk is good enough and takes a lot less time. Warming up quickly is the point, with GREAT tasting hot chocolate coming in second. Jill's kind of hot chocolate is more for cuddling up by the fireplace with your sweetie around here. =)

[Rain]

I would just heat up a cup of chocolate soymilk

[Crandall]

Cold in California, I don't buy that for a second.

Come here where he have snow, and freezing rain. It's so cold here if you have a running nose it will freeze and you'll get snotsicles.

http://www.theweathernetwork.com/weather/canb0067

[skaris]

Californians are spoiled as far as cold weather goes...I think we all know that. I can't handle temperatures that drop below the 40's, but then again when does it ever drop below the 40's in Los Angeles? (aside from 4:00 in the morning in the middle of January when the temperature is sometimes known to get into the mid to low 30's)

The cold is relative, I'm sure if I moved somewhere else for a few years where it snows all the time during the winter, I would come back here and think everyone are whiney pansies, too.

And to answer your question, Jill....Swiss Miss is fine with me =P.

[KCALB SIRAY]

I like mine freakin hot with a kit-kat on the side and break it into little pieces and let them float....yeah, I'm weird, so.

[SIPNGAS]

I like mine freakin hot with a kit-kat on the side and break it into little pieces and let them float....yeah, I'm weird, so.

Really, Mikey..you don't have to keep telling us. We get it. :bellyroll:

[GeneW]

Californians are spoiled as far as cold weather goes...I think we all know that. I can't handle temperatures that drop below the 40's, but then again when does it ever drop below the 40's in Los Angeles? (aside from 4:00 in the morning in the middle of January when the temperature is sometimes known to get into the mid to low 30's)

The cold is relative, I'm sure if I moved somewhere else for a few years where it snows all the time during the winter, I would come back here and think everyone are whiney pansies, too.

And to answer your question, Jill....Swiss Miss is fine with me =P.

I think California's rainy "winters" have something to do with it. Some of the most miserable experiences I've had outside were in forty degree weather with sleet and rain.

In contrast I've stood outside in a t-shirt and shorts in clear sunny thirty degree weather and felt quite comfortable.

Gene

[SIPNGAS]

Yes, 60 degree weather in California makes the jackets and jeans come out. 60 degrees in Wisconsin brings our t-shirts and shorts if that temperature occurs during a normally cold part of the year. Honest.

[dvlnblkdrs]

heh its not quite cold to me.. enough for a sweatshirt in the morning, but no gloves or nething of the sort.. lol if u ask anyone who was at the meet.. it was like 50's and i was in a tshirt, barely cold..lol i just like cocoa during the winter.. its like a requirement.... :biggrin:


i eat my m&ms and skittles by color and quantity.. whichever color has the most first...

and i was terrible in math.. took me 5 times to pass basic algebra!

[skaris]

I like wearing my sweatshirts...even when it's in the 70's and 80's!

Where I live in Torrance, it generally never gets to be above the mid 80's, so I'm a wimp for the heat, too...I hate hate hate it, would rather be cold!

[Rich k]

Hrm heated chocholate soymilk, i might just have to try that option.

[dvlnblkdrs]

milk from a plant doesnt make much sense to me.. then again neither does goat milk.. i just have a weird thing about it... i refuse to even try soy milk.. i dont care that it may be better for me er nething.. i just wont do it

[skaris]

Soy milk FOR THE WIN.

[dvlnblkdrs]

:frown:

[GeneW]

milk from a plant doesnt make much sense to me.. then again neither does goat milk.. i just have a weird thing about it... i refuse to even try soy milk.. i dont care that it may be better for me er nething.. i just wont do it

Used to feel the same way. I ate cheese every day, sometimes several times a day. Cow's Milk was real food and Soy Milk was "chalky nasty crap". Back then it was pretty nasty, today it's a bit better, though carrageenan is nasty too.

I got older and acquired a food allergy. For a long time I thought it was just some odd bug. Started having all sorts of gross nasty symptoms. Finally it got totally out of hand, like I couldn't digest food.

Figured it might be milk related as some things followed eating stuff like pizza or pesto alfredo. So I cut that stuff out.

One day I had a tuna sandwich and "got sick". Couldn't understand because I didn't consume anything dairy. Read the package - "Sodium Casienate". Told my doctor, who said, "Ah, Casein allergy! Nasty one that is!".

Cut out all casein and felt fine. It's in a lot of places including junk foods, sausage and anywhere that a food must be "bound" together.

There still isn't a reliable test for such an allergy except through careful diet study. I had the lactose intolerance test, where you drink some lactose with radioactive hydrogen, and then breathe into a balloon. I passed that one with flying colors...

Casein allergy really really rare it turns out. Oh well, there are worse things, like peanut allergy or shellfish allergy. I just get sick, I don't go into shock and need injections of drugs.

So the moral of the story being, be glad that you're not so affected... but do try the stuff out. Soy is good when you're about twenty years or so older and starting to go into menopause. Might as well get used to it now.

Gene

[GeneW]

By the way, the term "milk" is a misnomer. It's more a beverage, but that term makes it sound snooty or suspect. Good quality soy milk today is almost indistinguishable from cow's milk, at least until you cook with it.

Gene

[SIPNGAS]

I have a friend here at work with the same casein allergy. Interesting.

[dvlnblkdrs]

wow, that stinks! i wont try it as long as i know what it is.. because i know its soy, i wont try it.. if i think its regular milk, i would prolly drink it.. lol