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I’ve been making a lot of cocoa over the past year or so. Partially I blame Pete. When he was actively Atkins-ing he tended to rhapsodize about how wonderful a mug of cocoa with Splenda was. He’s right, so I got into the habit too. It helps that Mon Aimee in the Strip has very good Dutch-processed Guittard chocolate for something absurdly cheap like $4/lb, so I can make fancy cocoa as often as I like without really worrying about the cost.

The way I make cocoa has changed as I’ve discovered what I really like, and I’m pretty happy with the current method. It’s really a pretty loose recipe, shifting around to be soothing or spicy, thick and creamy or light and soft, etc, etc.

A few things stay the same each time: there’s always about a quart of milk, always about six tablespoons of cocoa powder, always some molasses, always some vanilla. The other seasonings vary wildly, including anything from cinnamon and nutmeg to powdered chipotle and star anise.

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Argh. The simple and stupid spam-fighting tricks don’t foil the vandals who go to the trouble of parsing the weblog page to figure out what the comment-post script is called.

So now I’m trying out Spam Karma instead, which at the very least sounds nice and had a really convenient install.

If it causes problems with comment posting, please let me know.

If it works out, I’ll probably install it on UDP too.

Still hating the damn spammers, though.

Edit: After a little fiddling to get it to work with the threaded-comments hack (it needs the same change that popup comments do), it’s working perfectly, and it installed really smoothly through the plugin-manager plugin. Excellent!