Some of you might want to shake your fist at me after I tell you this.
I really really really love snow. L.O.V.E.
But because I live in the south western part of North Carolina, I don’t see it much. It’s been a full 2 years since we’ve had as much as flurries. What’s worse than never seeing even the teensiest bit of winter weather are the newscasters that champion the 70 degree temperatures in January. You guys. Global warming is not a reason to get excited. Neither are mosquitoes. Just sayin’.
So today marks the very first day that they’ve called for any kind of winter weather this season. I passed by the grocery store earlier. Of course it was completely packed (Does anyone understand the compulsion that most of the population suffers from in which a thunderstorm or a forecast for snow means that we need to straight up clean out the grocery store? I have never been able to grasp it and I really need some insight. Do you really have so little food in your house that you couldn’t get by for the ONE day it takes things to melt without buying ALL the milk and bread? I need to understand this. I feel like I’m missing something.). I didn’t need groceries so I kept on driving.
To the liquor store.
In the event of any actual weather this is what I want to be doing.
Book. Bourbon. Chocolate. And marshmallows.
But because we are where we are, all we are actually getting is torrential freaking downpour. Mississippi is getting more snow than me. How is this even fair?
As it would happen though, it was a really great thing that I went out and bought bourbon. Because while I was harassing my kids about homework, recovering from another ridiculous round of cardio, and preparing to wash a bunch of veggies to go with dinner. I logged onto Facebook and learned that my littlest brother – he’s 17 – was in a completely horrible car accident (his car hydroplaned, went off the road, ran through a grove of trees, and rolled; it’s toast) … and he walked away with just a few scratches.
So I had a meltdown while standing in my kitchen.
Wear your seat belts. That is no joke.
We currently haven’t seen a stitch of snow and I for one am SO GLAD I have spiked marshmallowy hot chocolate in place of a bunch of useless bread and milk.
- ⅓ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- ½ cup granulated sugar
- a dash of salt
- ⅓ cup boiling water
- 3½ cups reduced fat milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 tablespoons half and half (optional)
- 8 tablespoons bourbon
- 1 cup mini marshmallows
- In a medium saucepan stir together the cocoa powder, sugar, and salt.
- Stir in the boiling water until the sugar has dissolved and the cocoa isn’t lumpy. Turn the burner to medium heat.
- Stir in the milk. Let the milk heat up, stirring occasionally. Watch it carefully so it doesn’t scorch!! Remember you aren’t cooking the milk. Just warming it.
- When the hot chocolate has reached your desired drinking temperature, remove it from the heat and stir in the vanilla, half and half, and bourbon.
- Divide the hot chocolate between 4 mugs, top each with marshmallows, and serve immediately.
adapted from THIS hot chocolate recipe at Allrecipes.com
So glad to hear of your brother’s exceptional luck!
This hot chocolate looks perfect, I never thought of spiking it before but it makes perfect sense. We’re one of the few parts of the UK not to be getting snow right now but I can probably manage a hot chocolate nevertheless…
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Ummm… we got NO SNOW. It was a total hoax. I;m pretty irritated with the “forecasters” right now. One more reason to continue to spike the hot chocolate.
My brother was MAJORLY lucky. I just can’t even believe it.
Just the thing to provide warmth and give a kick
Cheers
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We lived in Germany for a couple of years; slippery roads, cold, colder, freezing! I like to visit snow, but shoveling it and getting stuck in it was not my thing. Maybe if I had spiked my hot chocolate I would’ve left Europe with a different opinion
I’ll take another splash of bourbon please!
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I’m so glad to hear your brother is ok! Thank god. I’ve just looked out the window here (it’s 1am and I can’t sleep) and we have snow. Not a ton, but we have a light sprinking. I work part time in a supermarket and tonight everyone was going crazy buying all the bread, milk and eggs! So it looks like this happens all over the word. I don’t get it either! x
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OMG it’s a world wide epidemic!! What are they doing with all the groceries?! I feel like I really need to know.
So jealous of your snow!!! We got none. I had hot chocolate with bourbon anyway. You should see my brother’s car. It is a mangled mess of VW steel. I am SO THANKFUL he walked away.
BTW this hot chocolate looks so good!
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Oh no!!! I’m glad your brother is ok but that is horrifying!!! He must have been scared sh*tless!!!!!
I love that you opted for spiked hot chocolate to the bread and milk lol I think people think they’ll be trapped in doors for days haha Up here I can understand that sort of behavior because that does happen…but if you guys don’t even get snow I mean that seems a little dramatic!!! haha Anytime you want to come shovel my driveway after a snowstorm come on up for a visit!!! lol You’ll hate it after a day!!!!
God I love hot chocolate!!! The marshmallows make it!!! YUM!!!
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That looks like the most comforting, warm and cosy way to spend a weekend! Love it! (even without the snow – I am feeling very similar at the moment, I also LOVE the snow, and everyone back in England had yesterday off for snow and here we have nothing!) Today it rained like ALL day – spiked hot chocolate would have been the best way to spend this afternoon (instead I had a post date doze and spent several hours psyching myself up to go to the supermarket…which at least wasn’t full of panic buyers!) I’m SO glad your brother was ok – very lucky!
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If I don’t have to drive in it I love snow too! I don’t like rain, however. Luckily I live in So Cal. Unluckily it’s hot here today and I don’t like heat.
I have lots of issues, clearly.
Love the hot chocolate! I could use a shot of bourbon right now…
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