Oh what the heck. One more post about food. Tonight I whipped up some hot cocoa, one of our favorite cold-evening desserts. Usually we rely on the instant stuff, no sugar added.

Instead, today I combined sugar and dutch-processed cocoa, with water, milk and vanilla over the stovetop for some homemade goodness.

Just enough for two mugs of yummy chocolatey goodness, without the false sweeteners, and without the ginormous calories of a chocolate pie that we contemplated getting from the store tonight.