i want a stand mixer, a food processor, a silpat, a pastry brush and a candy thermometer.
i made hot chocolate today with a swiss miss packet... or something. i forgot the name of the company. anyway, it's just the individual packets without the box (because i feel like having the box around is just a waste of space. i'll use a packet, and then it'll be replaced by air. essentially, i have a box holding air for me. like i said, a waste of space). i was reading the packet, though, and realized that under the great "Swiss Miss" sign with the mountains on the background, it says "hot chocolate flavor."
hot chocolate flavor. flavor? what?
this had me thinking... does hot chocolate flavor indicate something? that there isn't actually chocolate in there, just little chocolate flavored powder. but not actual chocolate. of course, this made some sense because i assume chocolate flavored powder probably lasts longer than chocolate itself and melts much more quickly in hot water.
but i'm getting tired of eating chemicals. sure, it tastes just like the real thing but in the end, the problem is, it's not the real thing. just because my tongue has been tricked by the chemical poser flavors doesn't mean i'm going to be happy about it. like, if you gave me thin shards of glass covered in potato chip flavoring and i ate it, then it's nice that i thought it was a potato chip but you know what just happened? i freakin ate glass. i'm going to die.
the hot chocolate flavoring, of course, isn't as extreme. or else swiss miss wouldn't do really well in the cocoa flavored drink world, but i'm still not happy that i drank flavored powder when i wanted hot chocolate.
how do i solve this?
make my own hot chocolate. which i will do, with homemade marshmallows as well. i won't be drinking any of it (except once, as a trial run) but i will probably be giving it away for holiday gift giving so that'll be fun :) and it'll be real chocolate. i hope it's real. please don't eat glass.
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