An evening well-spent
Mar. 18th, 2004 09:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jwghThis evening I headed over to the East Side to meet with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
simon44, something we've been planning to do for a few weeks but haven't had a chance to do before now. For dinner simon44 suggested Wings To Go, a restaurant on Thayer Street that I must have walked by a hundred times but for some reason had never tried out. The wings were quite good. Mmmm, wings.
He also suggested going to the 7:15 showing of Touching the Void at the Avon. I had heard good things about it so we went for it. Good lord, but that film is harrowing. Damn. In it two mountain climbers recount the story of how they went climbing in Tibet and almost died, with dramatic reenactments of what happened. (My description makes it sound cheesy, but it wasn't.)
Emerging from the theater after seeing that movie into wind-driven particulate snow triggered a deep-seated desire to go inside and get some hot chocolate somewhere, but that wasn't really an option, so I came home.
A good evening!
Tomorrow I go off to the wilds to visitmanfire, revjack256, and other Kibologists. Whee!
simon44, something we've been planning to do for a few weeks but haven't had a chance to do before now. For dinner simon44 suggested Wings To Go, a restaurant on Thayer Street that I must have walked by a hundred times but for some reason had never tried out. The wings were quite good. Mmmm, wings.He also suggested going to the 7:15 showing of Touching the Void at the Avon. I had heard good things about it so we went for it. Good lord, but that film is harrowing. Damn. In it two mountain climbers recount the story of how they went climbing in Tibet and almost died, with dramatic reenactments of what happened. (My description makes it sound cheesy, but it wasn't.)
Emerging from the theater after seeing that movie into wind-driven particulate snow triggered a deep-seated desire to go inside and get some hot chocolate somewhere, but that wasn't really an option, so I came home.
A good evening!
Tomorrow I go off to the wilds to visit
manfire, revjack256, and other Kibologists. Whee!
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Date: 2004-03-18 08:40 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2004-03-19 06:26 am (UTC)I am not talking about Swiss Miss either.
One way I like to make hot chocolate is using hot fudge sauce which I make from the recipe in the Ben & Jerry's ice cream recipe book. More often I'll just make it from good quality cocoa powder (we try to get ours from Penzey's Spices, and if that runs out we sometimes get Girardelli locally; if that becomes unavailable, then we fall back on Hershey's), sugar, and milk -- I don't measure, I just use what looks right, and I tend to keep the cocoa and sugar ratio close to 1:1 but that may not be sweet enough for some people. Usually I heat a little milk in a cup in the microwave, then mix in the sugar and cocoa (ideally with a little whisk, if I'm feeling ambitious enough to look for it), and when they're mixed in well and the lumps are gone then I fill the cup with milk and heat that. Add vanilla, almond, mint, or orange extract as desired.