the idea:  add hot chocolate to a homemade chai steamer

I’m out of honey.

As a tea-drinker in the winter, this is a dangerous thing.

Tonight while I was making a chai steamer (by which this culinary artist means meaning milk in a pan with a chai tea bag), I decided not to add any sugar to replace the honey.  However, when I had my first sip it wasn’t enough.

As a New Englander I, of course, have hot chocolate mix.  Actually, I have some very fancy Godiva hot chocolate mix left by a former roommate.  “What the hell,” I thought, spooning hot coco into my chai steamer.

I should have been thinking, “INGENIUS!” because that’s what it is.  Now I just need to patent it and sell it to Starbucks.