Chocolate Syrup

You will need:


1 cup of boiling water
1 1/2 cups of sugar
3/4 cups of cocoa powder
pinch of salt
2 tsp vanilla

Bring water to a boil in a tea kettle. Combine dry ingredients in a sauce pot. Measure out 1 cup of boiling water and add to the mixture. Bring to a rolling boil, stirring constantly for 3 minutes. Remove from heat and add vanilla. Let cool, ladle into a jar and refrigerate.

Admin Notes: My wife makes this all the time for our son, we get our milk for free through the WIC program, but he loves chocolate milk. One can of cocoa powder is worth three to four bottles of chocolate syrup you would buy from the store and it only costs us a buck and a half. This is a good money saver for those who love chocolate milk.

Dreks' Guacamole

You will need:

• 2 ripe hass avocados
• 1 green bell pepper - chopped
• 1/2 cup fresh cilantro - chopped
• 1 bunch of green onion - chopped
• 2 jalapeno peppers - seeded and chopped (keep seeds in for extra spiciness) 
• 2 large tomatoes
• 2 tbsp lemon juice

Combine all ingrediants in blender and blend until liquified. Refrigerate for a couple hours to let flovours blend. Serve with your favorite corn chips and sour cream if desired.

Note: If you want some crunch to it, liquify half of peppers, green onion and tomatoes. Then afterward add the remaining chopped ingrediants, stir in and refrigerate.

Creator/Admin Comment: I used to be crazy about making my own guacamole and salsa a while back. I just loved the stuff. This is my own recipe, it makes quite a bit, great for parties. If you don't want quite so much you can half the recipe.

There was one time I went to the grocery store to get some hot peppers to make a big batch of guacamole and they had habanero  peppers. I didn't know what they were, so in the spirit of experimentation I purchased  ten of them. I didn't eat one before using them, I just thought they wouldn't make the dip so hot because they were so small, so I put all ten of them in my dip. My cousin helped cut them up and he didn't wear gloves, of course he ended up touching his eyes, the next 15 minutes or so involved him screaming with watering and swollen eyes and me rolling on the floor laughing. When it came time to eating my marvelous creation I was stunned by the potency of the hot peppers, I could hardly get one chip down. It literally took my breath away and I spent then next 15 minutes or so eating bread and drinking milk. Fun stuff. Good times.