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Last Chance To Party It Up, Folks!

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Let's Start The New Year Off Right With A Hot Toddy

This being the end of the year 2017, as well as the end of the @blacklux Holiday Party today, I thought a small celebration was in order. And what better way to celebrate the 'out with the old ' and 'in with the new ' than sipping a warm, tasty drink on New Year's Eve. So...without further ado, which seems like a fancy-schmancy way of saying "this is what I did last night", well, this is what I did last night:

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The Setup, and Eventual Finishing Touches

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New Year's Eve Flaxen Irish Cream Cocoa

Ingredients

~ 2 Cups Flax Seed Milk
A Big Old Dollop of Powdered Cocoa Mix
Some Irish Cream Liqueur(Cask & Cream 'Temptations')
Stirring Spoon
Very Stylish, 3 Pound Neanderthal-Era Mug

The How To :

Pour the Flax Seed milk into a measuring cup. Microwave the milk for 1 minute. Pour steamy milk into cave-man mug. Spoon in cocoa powder. Stir cocoa. Stir cocoa again. Keep stirring cocoa. Then stir dumb cocoa some more, whacking the little surface-globules with the back of the spoon. Wipe up counter. Repeat.

Thrash about in the cocoa with a larger spoon some more, like an old Evinrude 25 hp motor, till the dumb, UN-sinkable, life-raft-like lumps of cocoa finally settle into solution. (Ms. McGinnis, my Chemistry II teacher would be proud.)

The All-Important Next Step

Next, pour in the Irish Cream. Add a bit more, or as much as you want. Whatever properly floats your New Year's Eve boat. Then stir again. Keep stirring. (There must be a reason all the books say "put cocoa powder in first, then add water or milk". No matter WHAT you do, those goofy little round blobs of powdered chocolate are everywhere on the surface.)

Speaking of boats, these things remind me of little brown icebergs, floating on the dark, North-Cocoa Sea. Just waiting for any UN-suspecting ocean liner to scuttle on past at 18 knots, full of clueless New Year's reveler's. A real party-disaster waiting to happen. Except, the water is really warm. And you can drink it. And you'd be so looped after an hour in the 'drink', you might not really care. So maybe this analogy is not quite as strong as I'd hoped when I started.

On with our drink.

Time To (Finally) Relax

After much work, I finally (sort of) defeated the cocoa powder globule difficulties. And soon settled into a nice, warm chair in front of the fire, disguised as a Saft-T-Heat, upright heater by De-Longhi, with a relaxing mug of Flaxen Irish Cream Cocoa. Aahhh, nothing could be finer, to shuffle in a New Year. Plus, with all that heavy spoon activity, I really got a workout in.

YES!! Here's to my FIRST New Year's Resolution completed, that I can cross off my list:

More exercise!

Gotta love the art of multitasking on the eve of the New Year of 2018.

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What Better Way To Bring In A Spanking-New Year

I highly recommend this little drink. It warms you up from the inside out, and tastes pretty darn good as well. Smooth, creamy, a bit Irish, and all-around chocolate-tasty. Maybe make yourself more than one.

~ Finto ~

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Thanks for stopping in and viewing the art of a New Year's Eve Drink. If you have any thoughts about Flax milk or Irish Cream, those hard-to-corral, sediment-based, air/water interface-affected-by-particle-dynamics choco-spheres, Holiday drinks in general, or anything else this post reminds you of, please feel free to comment away in the spaces below. I'd love to hear from you.

Also, Go Check Out The @blacklux Party by @haphazard-hstead - While You Still Can

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_{Posted: 01/01/2018 @ 16:09}

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Excerpts From Late-Night Conversations With A Mechanical Cat