Get Outside, Go To The Farmers' Market

I looked back on my blog entries and I realized how much I talk about the weather. Actually it's about how chocolate and the weather go together. When I'm outside for so many hours a week talking to customers at the various Farmers' Markets, it is easy to see how people's appetites and moods go with the temperature. So that explains why my hot chocolate only lasted a few minutes at the cool, foggy, Wednesday morning market at College of San Mateo. I'm offering 72% Dark Chocolate, made first into a water infusion, then blended with hot milk. It resembles a traditional cup of hot cocoa. But if you try it you'll quickly see how rich and exciting it is. Of course, I sell the 72% Dark Chocolate wafers so that you can also make it at home. At my house, however, the favorite drink is to have the 72% Dark Chocolate/hot water infusion straight. There is no other chocolate experience quite like it. The flavor is all right there, no hiding behind milk or other ingredients. It is liquefied, warm chocolate. It delivers the full force of the chocolate flavor sip after sip. The recipe for this is on the bag of 72% Dark Chocolate when you pick it up at the market.