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 A new blog to contain answers to prompts |
Since my old blog "Everyday Canvas "  became overfilled, here's a new one. This new blog item will continue answering prompts, the same as the old one. Cool water cascading to low ground
To spread good will and hope all around.  |
| Prompt: “Hot chocolate is like a hug from the inside.” Do you like hot chocolate, and what are your most favored hot drinks? -------------------- Do I like hot chocolate or what! I'm drinking, no, cross that, I'm sipping one right now as I write this entry. This may be partly because my pleasures come in cups. Cups that do not demand speed or productivity but just only comfort. This is when the aroma of melted chocolate rises first, rich and sweet, preparing my mind for pleasure before that first sip even reaches my lips. In addition, I have a deep emotional connection to hot chocolate. Hot chocolate makes me re-live my childhood again, especially when coming in from the cold, to taste its comfort, warmth and sweetness, as offered from my grandmother's loving hands, in a ceremonial importance. So I enjoy it, still, its taste of each sip heightened with cinnamon and whipped cream. To me, therefore, hot chocolate is more than a drink. It is a ritual of indulgence that has spanned cultures and generations. I always savor it and the moment, as I slow down and let the cold and my worries stay outside. Are there other hot drinks that can live up to hot chocolate's favorability? Well, my second favorite hot drink is tea, followed by hot apple cider. This goes to show that hot chocolate sometimes shares its throne with other hot drinks. Coffee is perhaps the most famous among all those, but as much as I love coffee, my cardiologist has banned it for me. If you ask me it was for no reason but professional gobbledygook. If you ask him, he'll utter his many reasons, which would take pages and pages of paper, if they were to be written down. Granted, after my insistence, he gave a half-hearted okay to tea and a possible chocolate candy once in a while. So, in my mind, this clears out hot chocolate, too.  Surely, there are other beloved hot drinks liked by other cultures. like Chai, that has cardamom, ginger, cloves, and cinnamon in it as a spiced milk tea. When brewed by one who is from somewhere in South Asia, it is quite tasty. I bought the commercial tea-bagged kind of it, but didn't like it as much as the one a friend from India had once made for us, decades ago. Then, I heard, there is the South American "atole," made from corn but I never tasted it and I wonder if I did, I would like it as much as my hot chocolate and other hot beverages. So, as I reach again, smugly, for my cup of hot chocolate, all I can say is, "To each, his own!" . |
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