Month 5 day 6: Frozen hot chocolate

One of G's favorite restaurants, a whole-in-the-wall Sichuan (despite being named "Thailand Cafe") place about a block away, will be closing sometime this month because the whole area is going to be torn down and redeveloped as more space for Novartis. Since he'll be away for the rest of the summer, this was G's last chance to eat there for ever. They're not even moving-- they're just closing. So we had to eat there for dinner instead of cooking.

Another thing G loves to have is iced hot chocolate at L.A. Burdick. They serve rich, creamy, decadent hot chocolate, and he found out once on accident (when he ordered a drink and it came chilled) that they're offered both hot and cold. He wanted to go-- to round out his only-in-Boston favorites before leaving-- but there was a tropical storm out and it was just rainy and wet and miserable. But I had a trick up my sleeve:

Frozen hot chocolate, Every Day with Rachael Ray, June 2012

G was so excited to get a little taste of L.A. Burdick at home, and he definitely wanted to save the recipe. Our blender isn't good enough to really chop up the ice, so there were still small pieces of ice in this. We think that next time, we might want to add extra water or milk to compensate for the volume, and then instead of adding ice, we'll pop it in the ice cream maker for just enough time that it gets milkshake-thick but is still drinkable. I thought it might be fun to try putting some cherries in, but G wanted it just the way it was. This was super easy and delicious.