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BBAC 2015, Day Ten: favorite winter drinks

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I have coffee just about every morning, but the rest of the day - spring, summer, even autumn - I'm much more likely to reach for a glass of ice water when I want something to drink.

Winter is the exception. Winter is when the kettle gets heavy use. The kettle and the thermal mugs and the thermal pump pot, all get used a lot in winter. Part of the reason is that my house is slab-on-grade, so the first floor is routinely colder than the upstairs. (Seriously - there's a 15-degree temperature differential halfway down the stairs.) Once I'm upstairs for the day, I tend to want to go back downstairs as little as possible…and when I do, it always includes getting something hot to eat or drink. Partially, the warm drinks are compensation for having to be down in the cold!

BBAC 2015, Day Ten: favorite winter drinks

<h3>Peppermint cocoa</h3> <p>Stephen's Peppermint Cocoa, with actual bits of candycane in the cocoa and milk in the mix. I like this over, say, Swiss Miss, because I don't have to try and heat up milk to get something that doesn't taste like vaguely chocolated hot water. This brand isn't cheap, but it's very good. They apparently make a whole range of hot cocoas, including a Mexican Chocolate (semisweet with cinnamon.)</p> <h3>Apple cider (and mulled cider)</h3> <p>A mug of apple cider is another good way to end my day...or at least, to begin to slow down my evening. To me, apple cider doesn't work as well for dunking cookies; but it's got a little tartness that can be a nice change from the sugar-saturated-everything that's available at this time of year. Sometimes - rarely - I'll take the extra time and effort to make a batch of mulled cider, and enjoy that for a while.</p> <h3>Eggnog...in my coffee</h3> <p>I'm not a coffee gourmand, but I am something of a coffee purist. I like my morning java black like the depths of my soul. I don't add cream, sugar, or anything else to my coffee. Even the occasional Starbucks drinks that I get are mid-day "treat" drinks, rather than my morning cuppa. But around this time of year, I'll get a pint of eggnog and put a generous dollop of that into the second mug of the day. I have tried drinking eggnog straight, usually when I've ended up with half a container of eggnog with less than a day before it starts to go bad but I didn't want to just waste it. So I poured it in a glass and tried drinking it. It's just too frothy, too sweet. It's like drinking a partially melted milkshake. My brain can't handle that.</p> <h3>Drinking Chocolate</h3> <p>It really is like drinking un-set pudding! Not an everyday occurrence, and I completely understand why the mugs are so small: after drinking half of a regular "coffee mug" of this stuff, the rest would either start to cool and gel, or you'd just...run out of room. I will drink a little, then pour the rest on a semi-hard cookie like a biscotti, let it soak in and soften it up, then eat the cookie. Not a daily thing, not even in winter! More like my own personal New Year's Eve ritual.</p>

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