Kansas Winters here in the Flinthills can be so cold that you have to find ways to stay warm while in your Home. Sipping on a hot beverage while surfing the web/net can be a relaxing SPORT.
Hubby has a secret recipe for Hot Chocolate...so I can't give it away. Sorry. Just one of those things!
But 'Life Just Got A Little Easier' Hot Cocoa Mix that my Mom has shared with me makes a delicious mix that you just add hot water to and create a Gourmet Hot Drink for those cold days that you need a little something to warm you up. It's a bit rich.
As a child, I drank this Hot Cocoa when our Family went camping in Colorado for Vacation. Chilly in Colorado! Fond Memories to enjoy. Along with the camp fire and fixing a gooey delight with toasting marshmallows on a stick...sleeping on the ground in a bedroll inside a tent...mac and cheese suppers...playing with pinecones to make miniature villages...fishing in a creek...looking at the stars.
Back in January 1992 after my husband was laid off from work, we moved from Texas to a small Kansas Town. It was so cold in the little rental house that we crammed ourselves into. Special entertainment that Winter was watching the televised Olympics Games held in France. I remember that the Metals were made of crystal instead of metal. Hum...I thought that was odd. A Gold Metal was no longer gold...crystal isn't gold. Oh well.
We'd watch the televised evening events bundled up in blankets in our little Livingroom sipping this Hot Cocoa in front of our television. The bad reception was beyond fussy...and there wouldn't be any money spent on cable, so we did our best to watch what we could and stay current on the 1992 Winter Olympics Games!
HOT CHOCOLATE MIX
Ingredients
8 quart box of powdered milk
2 pound box Nestle Quick
1 (6 oz.) jar Coffee Mate
2 cups powdered sugar, sifted
Mix ingredients together and store in glass jar or plastic tub until ready to use.
Add hot water to 1/4 c of mixture in mug, stir and serve.
This easy recipe makes plenty of mix to have ready to go and on hand for future usage.
Blessings!
~Deanna~
6 comments:
I think I have heard of this recipe and it got great reviews. I love making things in bulk, so this would be great.
Stay warm.
Hi D! Oh, your hot chocolate looks and sounds so good! We have so many blessings, don't we? Glad you're life is a little easier!
Thanks for popping in to see me,
Shelia ;)
That dank old little house holds so many special memories. Do you know I often dream (when I'm actually asleep) about living there with Butterfly? I also fighting over the heat vent with my brother the Tinman. Just who was going to get to hold their clothes up the longest before we got to put warm clothes on in the morning! Three kids and one air vent.
I remember the hot coco and I loved it! And I love you!
You would think that a Colorado native would have gone camping...NEVER been, absolutely no interest. Hot cocoa, YES!! I like to have it at school once in a while to warm my hands there and here at home for the same reason. I'm thankful for a warm home. Thanks for sharing.
Whew! When I saw that mug of hot chocolate and you said you had a recipe......I was thinking Lucy, you got some 'splainin to do!
After reading your post, I saw that Lucy was not in trouble after all. "8^)
But that mix really does make life a little simpler, and does make a very good cup of hot cocoa.
As for the house, the winter, that cocoa was a life saver. I remember loading furniture in Houston on New Years eve in a T-shirt (at midnight no less), and we unloaded in Kansas on the 2nd of January and it was 5 below zero. Ouch.
I remember sometimes the heater wouldn't kick on, and you had to go into the hallway and bang on the cover, and it would reluctantly start the fan.
Ah sweet memories.
Rg
LOVE hot chocolate! Thanks!
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