hot chocolate

Oh the antics! 

Give 'em hot chocolate and let the good times roll...

 

Steph from this brown wren shared her hot cacao recipe with me a few months ago. It has become a family favourite - especially when served with freshly popped popcorn! How could I not pass this deliciousness on?

Steph's Hot Chocolate

[i]

in a saucepan mix a heaped teaspoon of raw cacao powder with a little water

[ii]

pop the saucepan on the heat, add a generous spoonful of honey and stir

[iii]

add 500mls of milk and heat it all up to the desired temp!

[iv]

pour into your favourite mugs and strike up a conversation!!

PS The munchkins drink cows milk, but I make this for myself with rice milk and it's tastes just as luscious.

a peek into the past

I've been exploring old Norfolk homes and museums of late. I don't know about you, but I adore old things. I wish 'old things' could talk, can you imagine the story they could tell us? I've always felt I was born into the wrong era. I'm certain life in a Jane Austen novel would have suited me well. But the reality is, for most from this era, life didn't revolve around tea parties, grand balls and time spent painting watercolours in pretty gardens!  It's easy to romanticize the past, isn't it! A hundred years ago (and less), life for the housewife was far from glamorous, in fact I'd say it was back breakingly hard! So as much as I admire the good ole days, I'm rather thankful for electric irons and automatic washing machines and despite the enticing smell and feel of the old Box Brownie, I'm rather enamored with my fancy modern camera!