Simply Satisfying Hot Chocolate

I have never been good at "savoring" food. It probably stems from my brother and myself having food competitons. Actually we had everything competitions! Who could eat the most and who could finish the meal first...this came attached with endearing dinner games like: What's grosser than gross? I'll save you the details of the last one. My poor mother!!

We were both very active, competitive kids. What I mean by that is, we were involved in a lot of sports. Rarely just for the pure joy of it, we were there to win. If we weren't in sports we were pretty good at being near comotose. Who could be the quiestest was our off season game. He liked to read Tom Clancy, watch tv and epic movies. I liked to write poetry, draw and listen to music. When I was really young, ok not really that young, I would sit out in the woods and talk to woodland creatures, I still have a thing with dragonflies.

Late this morning, I was really craving hot chocolate. Hot chocolate is definitely one of those things you slow down and enjoy. Since my refined sugar ban, I don't buy premade hot chocolate mixes or use the typical home made recipe which is still full of sugar. This morning I just winged it because I really really wanted it.

It was amazingly delightful and hit the craving perfectly! I highly recommend you use the superfood raw cacao powder for its high nutrients properties rather than processed cocoa. Many of the antioxidants are removed in the processing.

As far as slowing down and savoring....I am afraid I gulped it down in record time.