A brand new day...started at 3:00 am. when my alarm went off. As my feet hit the floor my new day is off running. I shower, dress and all the things that goes with getting ready to leave the house, hurry down stairs to make the chocolate mix I use for our "HOT CHOCOLATE & MOCHA'S". It brought back memories of the days when I first bought the espresso shop. The espresso shop was and still is in a small corner of a lounge at a ski resort, so every thing has to be put away and locked up. I try to have as many "homemade" items as I can. One of those homemade items is the chocolate mix. Back in the early days I would measure out the cocoa, powdered milk, sugar and then sift it with an old time sifter. There would be cocoa dust every where. That was when the powdered milk was like powder (or flour). Then as things happen, I could not buy that same powdered milk any more, so I had to get the coarse grainy kind. To make it as fine as flour I had to put it in a blender. After a year of doing this the light bulb comes on....I can add the cocoa powder and sugar in the blender with the powdered milk and the process will be much faster. And it was, however now there is a lot of cocoa dust in the air. You just can't use dry products in a blender, open the top and not have a cloud of dust come out.
Or at least I can't, if someone knows how to stop it please don't tell me now...I have moved on and up. By the end of the ski season cocoa powder was hanging off my walls and ceiling. It would take a week or more to clean house in that one room.
The Best part of those "Good Ole Days" is that the chocolate mix makes the best "Mocha & Hot Chocolate" that can be found. Everyone who drinks one of these drinks not only keep coming back year after year, they also tell there friends that come here to ski to stop in my espresso shop. It still makes my day when a customer walks up and says "well I'm back for another one of your hot chocolates or a mocha" or "I had a friend tell me this is the best place to get a hot chocolate or a mocha."
The Good comes with the Bad...it all works out in God's plan....and makes for a wonderful day doing a fun job, meeting great people, making lasting friends and enjoying life.....See you on the flip side....Light Roast
