It all began when my sister let me borrow her book, Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson. I was humbled and amazed at the perseverance and pure determination that Mr. Mortensen showed throughout his life’s work.  

The following exerpt was taken from the Three Cups of Tea website.

“To honor his sister’s memory, in 1993, Mortenson climbed Pakistan’s K2, the world’s second highest mountain in the Karakoram range.

While recovering from the climb in a village called Korphe, Mortenson met a group of children sitting in the dirt writing with sticks in the sand, and made a promise to help them build a school.

From that rash promise, grew a remarkable humanitarian campaign, in which Mortenson has dedicated his life to promote education, especially for girls, in remote regions of Pakistan and Afghanistan.

As of 2009, Mortenson has established or significantly supports 131 schools in rural and often volatile regions of Pakistan and Afghanistan, which provide education to over 58,000 children, including 44,000 girls, where few education opportunities existed before.”

You can find out more information on the following websites:

Three Cups of Tea www.threecupsoftea.com
Central Asia Institute website www.ikat.org
Pennies For Peace website www.penniesforpeace.org

A portion of all Qassa sales will go to support this amazing cause.

I found this recipe, and wanted to share with y’all. Join me in the yummy goodness of it all!

 

Mexican Hot Chocolate

ingredients 

• 3 ounces (tablet or cone) Mexican chocolate or bittersweet chocolate
• 3 cups milk
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• Pinch salt
• Miniature marshmallows, for serving
• 6 cinnamon sticks (preferably Mexican canela), for serving

Directions

Using a sharp knife, break up the chocolate into smaller pieces. In a saucepan, combine the chopped chocolate, milk, sugar, and salt over medium-low flame. Heat and stir until the chocolate is completely melted and milk is very hot, but not boiling, about 10 minutes.

Remove from the heat and froth the chocolate milk with a mini whisk. Divide the hot chocolate among big mugs, top each with a few marshmallows, and serve with the cinnamon sticks as stirrers.

Recently, I got the idea of wanting to do a spicy chocolate scented candle.  So I set out on my mission to create the yummiest, sensual, hot ass candle I could make.  As I was scouring the net for ideas, I came across this pretty interesting blog. The post had some really great resources for hot chocolate, and although I’m really happy to find this post, I don’t know whether to be happy for the hot chocolate finds in NYC, throw the hot chocolate in the author’s face, or just find it all funny.

I kinda feel like break-dancing… lol

Judge for yourself.

http://www.pocketchangenyc.com/best-list.asp?nid=1134