{"id":872,"date":"2007-02-16T07:32:29","date_gmt":"2007-02-16T11:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=872"},"modified":"2007-02-16T07:32:29","modified_gmt":"2007-02-16T11:32:29","slug":"hot-cocoa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=872","title":{"rendered":"Hot cocoa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re expecting an Arctic mass coming through the Gulf and to Florida overnight, so it might be freezing overnight, but right now it&#8217;s a Florida-freezing but everywhere-else-toasty 50 F. In sympathy with everyone who&#8217;s reading this from snow country, and because I have a head cold while trying to ignore my e-mail and finish a manuscript today, it&#8217;s time to fill our covered mug with the type of cocoa that can be justified as Good for You:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2 heaping T. cocoa<\/li>\n<li>3 T.&nbsp;milk powder (mine is nonfat)<\/li>\n<li>sweeteners to taste (none for me this morning)<\/li>\n<li>a healthy sprinkling of chipotle chili powder<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Yes, it should be chipotle, if you want a liquid version of Moonstruck Chocolate&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moonstruckchocolate.com\/Images\/Truffles\/Ocumare100.jpg\">ocumarian truffle<\/a>.&nbsp; Trust me on this.&nbsp; The key to making cocoa with dried milk powder is to add just enough hot water at first to make a smooth paste.&nbsp; Get all the lumps out in the paste stage. Then add enough water to fill the regular-sized mug.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re expecting an Arctic mass coming through the Gulf and to Florida overnight, so it might be freezing overnight, but right now it&#8217;s a Florida-freezing but everywhere-else-toasty 50 F. In sympathy with everyone who&#8217;s reading this from snow country, and because I have a head cold while trying to ignore my e-mail and finish a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-comments","category-writing-and-editing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-e4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}