Decadent Hot Chocolate

Recipe:

1/3 cup Killer Fudge Sauce (recipe below)
1 cup milk*

In a small sauce pan, over medium heat, combine ingredients. Slowly whisk until desired temperature. Pour into your favorite mug. Top with whipped cream and dark chocolate curls.

*skim milk or 2% works best for this richly decadent hot chocolate

Killer Fudge Sauce

12 oz. Evaporated milk
14 oz. Sweetened condensed milk
2 Tbsp. Special Dark Cocoa Powder
½ cup butter or margarine
½ cup semi sweet chocolate
1 tsp. vanilla

In medium sauce pan, combine condensed milk, evaporated milk, cocoa powder, and margarine. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly. Bring to boil, cook for additional 3 to 5 minutes. Remove from heat. Add vanilla and semi sweet chocolate. Stir until smooth and glossy.

Strange Dream *only for readers with strong stomachs

I’ve had quite a few strange dreams over my lifetime. Lately, I’ve been dreaming about spiders, which–I’ve learned through dream study–is supposed to be a good thing. Spiders are somewhat a signifier of approaching enlightenment. Of course, I don’t know if that’s true for me, but I hope it is.

The strange dream that I can’t seem to escape even during wake hours has to do with getting sick (which has so many euphemisms that I must explore them for a just a moment…ralph, up chuck, hurl, riding the vomit comet, and many others). In my dream, I could not stop vomiting this green mass of capsule shapes that made a plastic clicking sound as it poured onto the ground. It was very vivid and odd and over very quickly.

And in analyzing the dream, I realized that it had to do with a purging of some sort. The only thing is, I don’t know what I purged, or perhaps what I still need to purge. But in the dream it was very disturbing and goes along with my long-time fear of spontaneous vomiting.

Yes, I know, it’s a very strange thing to fear. But I find that especially when I’m nervous, I think, “Wouldn’t it be horrible if I vomited uncontrollably in front of everyone?”

Some people have the repeated nightmare of being naked in public, while I have the far-too-awake fear of doing something nightmarish with no bathroom or trashcan in sight.

And whether you wanted to or not, now you know my secret. Well, one of the tamer ones anyway. Happy dreaming!