Hot Chocolate

	Chocolate. There are few foods that people feel as passionate about -- a passion that goes beyond a love for the "sweetness" of most candies or desserts: after all, few people crave caramel, whipped cream, or bubble gum. Chocolate is, well, different. For the true chocoholic, just thinking about chocolate can evoke a pleasurable response. You may want to grab a bar or make a nice cup of hot cocoa before you begin exploring here.

June 23, 2012 Reed Lessing and I visited this Belgian Chocolate and Coffee Shop in the Midlands Meander where he bought me a very special treat. 

My treat was something I've never seen before ... a hunk of milk chocolate on the end of  a stick. It was winter that day in June when my friend bought my gift.

 And while it was cold in late June, today it's 23 July and the dead middle of a freezing winter.

Our flat, nor any other dwelling has central heat so when it's cold outside... it's cold inside.   Very cold.

So this wonderful sweet treat was marvelously fun and delicious on this dead center - middle of winter night whilst watching one of my favorite television shows.

Can't see the steam rising from the hot mug of milk... chocolate is waiting patiently.

In dives the block of chocolate and begins to melt.

Specks of sweetness begin to appear and the yummy begins.

Getting smaller and the milk is getting darker.

Tiny

licking the goodness - self portrait.

Wearing long underwear and a flannel shirt and wrapped in a wool blanket, drinking my warm, sweet bedtime snack.