Hot chocolate, Anyone?

The paper this morning informs me that sub-zero temps are headed our way.........

not sub-freezing, but sub-fucking-zero!!

Time to stock up on firewood, break out the heavy sweaters, and maybe bring up the subject of that threesome you've always been curious about but never had the nerve to actually try.

Hey..........any port in a storm, eh?

At any rate, here's a hot chocolate recipe for those who might be entertaining over the holidays..........

Three boxes Hersheys Cocoa
1 five pound bag of sugar
5 gal. whole milk
2 gal half and half
1/2 gal. heavy cream
2 two oz. bottles pure vanilla extract

(the ratios of milk to half and half to cream are kind of arbitrary...........the more cream you use the smoother and richer this stuff is going to be......
you can also substitute a strong coffee for, I'd say, up to a gallon of the milk for a nice little caffeine boost and a rich aroma and flavor)

follow directions on cocoa box for mixing
be careful not to scorch

serve with little marshmallows or curls of shaved milk, white and dark chocolate or dollops of whipped cream or any garnish your heart desires

makes about 150 servings

This might rightfully belong in "Cooking with Gutz", but I thought I'd throw it in here so as to share it with as many people as possible.

Merry Christmas...........

Thus endeth the entry..........

Reflections in a Cave Man's Campfire...........

I have recently been divest of my internet connection at home.....

This is probably a temporary set-back.....still it is an inconvenience.
I copied, to a CD, all the pictures I wanted to post to this blog and to Cooking with Gutz only to find that the tool I use to post pictures to both blogs is not available on the public access computers I have been using.

Grrrrr.....

The upshot of which is, that the holiday entries I wanted to make are going to have to go begging for a while......which of course serves to set me behind at just the moment that I was beginning to catch up a bit.

I'll continue to make timely commentary in here, as I see fit......although, without my favorites list, I can't network some of the blogs that I had been visiting on a regular basis.

Both computer centers that I utilize have some odd restrictions on access to various sites which makes it impossible to visit some of my friends, or to leave comments, or some other such arbitrary idiocy.
For example: there is a site blocked as pornographic (a blog) that I have never seen so much as a "darn it" written in, however both centers allow access to "Beautiful Agony".
Not that I regard "Agony" as pornographic, but go figger.

Please, bear with me.......

When the going gets tough.......the tough get weird.

This, too, shall pass.

......and other such cliche nonsense.

Have a Merry Christmas.......and may all get what they deserve in the coming year.

Thus endeth the entry.........

Cobweb revelations in the wee hours........or Pop Goes the Weasel?

Another night of insane trudging from bed to sofa and back.
Cigarettes and aspirin.............
Tomblike silence broken only by the ticking of a digital clock that isn't there.

I have long since weaned myself of the internet escapism that,if it didn't create this whole bizarre struggle to re-establish a sane and productive sleep schedule, may have at least imprinted it onto my brain chemistry like the words on Moses' tablets.

If there are people in the world who are as desperate for sex as I am a single night's deep and unbroken sleep it rather explains the sodomizing of domesticated animals.

Thus endeth the entry..........

In the eye of the beholder.................behold!!

While you are waiting for something of substance from me......(which may be awhile, due to circumstances beyond my control at the moment)........

check this out!!

though I'd feel better if my "twin" were a little more discriminating about the company he keeps.

Thank you, Grace..........you're a darlin' for sure.

Thus endeth the entry...........