driphoney
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Have you people actually made any of these recipes? Because most of them seem like they're just copied from one damned cook book or another, and that a lot of them aren't going to work.
This one for example: have you ever actually tried to melt white chocolate in milk on a stove stop without scalding the milk? It's almost impossible. The best way to melt chocolate on a stove is with a double boiler, which will keep you from scorching the sugar, and that takes like half an hour. A long time to wait for a damned cup of coffee.
An easier way to make this kind of chocolate coffee is to use regular coffee and an envelope of pre-sweetened cocoa mix. Just dump it in. Saves like two hours of potchkying in the kitchen brewing espresso and melting chocolate, with nothing to clean up.
In an earlier recipe for beef barley soup, I noticed there was no beef broth used. Supposedly you made your own broth out of the bones from 1- 1 1/2 pounds of meat. You can't make beef broth out of raw bones. It has no flavor. The bones have to be browned overnight in the oven first, and the bones from that amount of meat aren't going to flavor that much water. You're going to end up with beef-in-water soup with a layer of fat on it. Voice of experience.
Hey, I like to cook as much as the next guy, but how about some recipes we've actually made that don't take 4 hours in the kitchen?
I melt white chocolate every holiday season in the microwave. You have to watch it, but it's quite easy. You do have to be careful to slowly add liquid. I haven't done white chocolate in milk on the stove as an additive to coffee, but I have done other chocolate. If you're just doing a small amount as flavoring, it works pretty well. I wish they would come up with white chocolate instant powder, I'd be first in line and I'd definitely add it to my coffee. I've done what you suggest, however, with the regular chocolate and it works.
I am going to try Di's pumpkin cheesecake recipe (shall I report back?) and I can only really defend my own pumpkin puree, which I do nearly every year and the first time I did it, I did look it up in a cookbook. Pretty easy though.
Perhaps you could add some legitimacy and add a family favorite.