Blantant product placement.
- 2 c. milk. Our family prefers Sassy Cow Creamery Skim.
- 3/4 c. cocoa powder. Trust me on this.
- 1 Tbsp. sugar
- 1/2 tsp. Penzey’s Chili Powder 3000.
Heat milk, whisk in the cocoa. It will look more like thin pudding than hot cocoa. This is good. Add sugar and chili powder. Serve in a Rutabaga Mug.
Serves 4. Or one copywriter with a project due and an empty head.
My delicate constitution is hypersensitive to caffeine because I don’t indulge often and I don’t drink coffee, black tea, or Red Bull. After a full batch of this I was shaking like an old laundromat washing machine with one short foot and a full load of sheets that are unbalanced and heading into the spin cycle. Had lunch with my buddy David and he later found out I had slammed a four shots of chocolate tar and he exclaimed, “That explains a lot.” I guess I was wiggly.
Enjoy in moderation,
Canoelover
P.S. Astute observers will notice the hideous wallpaper in the first photo. Circa 1962. We’re the second owners of a 60 year-old house, and the kitchen is the last to be done. I’m estimating $20-30K.
Non-astute observers will now notice the hideous wallpaper because I pointed it out. Awesome.
Retro is in. Leave it. Your property value just jumped.
As Rep of the Year, do I get a mug?
“Six German states have told retailers to stop selling Red Bull Cola energy drinks after a test found a trace amount of cocaine.”
Maybe it’s time to do some lab tests on Penzey’s Chili Powder 3000…..
You know it was the first thing I noticed, right…the wallpaper, I mean…don’t worry, it would have been the first thing I noticed no matter WHAT it looked like. 🙂
So I wasn’t much of a coffee drinker until I started working at Rutabaga. And now I can’t stay away from the stuff. It’s terrible! I half blame you for this problem because you gave me a super insulated thermos thingy awhile ago, and if I didn’t have it, I wouldn’t have anything to keep my coffee hot all day and then I wouldn’t have started bringing it to work in the first place.
Even if I *had* noticed the wallpaper before you mentioned it, I would merely have said, “Ah, that’s the wallpaper in the “Kitchen of Fond Memories.”
Long live cocoa sludge!
Yours non-astutely,
S