Listen, I feel just awful for abandoning all of you - my, um, imaginary readers, so I'm about to make it up to you Big Time with a hot cocoa recipe that is to-die-for and pretty healthy, at the same time! Here t'is…

Coconut Hot Cocoa

Ingredients (makes 2 mugs):

3 heaping Tablespoons cocoa powder

2-4 Tablespoons of raw sugar (or brown sugar, or honey) to taste

Pinch of salt

1 1/2 cups water

1/2 cup coconut milk

1/8 teaspoon vanilla extract

1/8 teaspoon almond extract (optional)

Directions: 1. Combine cocoa, sugar and salt in a small saucepan. Add a few tablespoons of water and stir until cocoa mixture is a smooth, non-lumpy, syrup; Add the rest of the water to mixture and heat over medium heat until boiling. Cook for two minutes.

2. Stir in coconut milk and remove from heat. Add vanilla and almond extract and mix well.

If you're not big on coconut (weirdo) or if you have food/nut allergies, you can substitute the almond, vanilla and coconut with rice milk. I haven't tried it, and it sounds kinda sad compared to the original recipe, but I'm sure somebody out there (who's also not reading this) will enjoy it nearly as much.

Oh, and I just had another thought… Rum!! I don't have any around here at the moment (and if I did, this post would probably never have been written), but I bet this beverage would taste GREAT with rum!

Enjoy!

Yeah yeah. So I promised a review "shortly". In the meantime however, I moved, and have also been dealing with some deadline-related pressures, so I haven't had a chance yet, to write a full-blown review of the 17" Macbook Pro. I can say this however... In the short time I've had it, and with the minimal amount of work it's been subjected to - mostly social networking, the odd photoshop crop and a couple of animated web banners - it's a dream!

More to come, I swear.

I ordered a new 17" Macbook Pro i7 last Friday, and because it's a custom build (Upgrades? You bet!) it's shipping from Shanghai.

Of course I'm tracking the entire journey online... Exit papers were just signed in China and it should be here within the next week, however the remote arrived today! It shipped separately, from a warehouse in the slightly less exotic locale of Concord, ON.

Anyway, I've ordered the new i7 model, with extra RAM, extra processor speed and a bigger hard drive and I couldn't be more excited if you told me I was getting a pony for my birthday.

Expect a full review shortly!

While the interwebs are all atwitter lately over the release of the new iPad, I've been drooling over the prospect of a new MacBook Pro, and waiting, ever so patiently, for the launch of Adobe's new Creative Suite5. Bearing this in mind,  I'd like to take a moment now to give the lowly 13" MacBook a well-deserved plug...

Never let anyone tell you this little machine isn't good enough for 'serious computing'. Over the past year, I've run my entire business on it, hooked up to a 17" screen.

I maxed out the RAM a while back, to give it some extra oomph, and since then, it's had no problem running the entire Creative Suite (and MS Office). Even with numerous applications open simultaneously it still manages to chug out 100mg+ photoshop files, with nary a complaint.

Not bad for a computer that I bought on a whim, so I could have the luxury of checking my email from bed.