Christmas Coconut Eggnog

So Christmas this year was great :) It was a nice small Christmas with just my family.  It was nice to be all together for the holidays since I'm not sure if I'll be able to come back home for Christmas next year! You never know what life has in store or where you'll be.  But anywayyyyy, Santa was good to everyone this year.  No one got any coal :)  But I have to say that this eggnog was a big hit this year.  No one else in my family eats dairy free but they enjoyed it as well!

I can't really take credit for this recipe.  It was my mom who came up with it.  We usually just buy eggnog so I didn't know she knew how to make it.  But apparently my Grandpa used to make eggnog every year when she was young so the recipe was hiding in her head!  Here it goes

Coconut Milk Eggnog

5 cups of coconut milk

5 eggs

about 1/2 tsp of cinnamon to a full tsp depending on your taste

1 tsp of vanilla

1/3 cup of honey (or 1/2 cup of sugar)

grated nutmeg on top

This recipe is so easy.  Rule of thumb is that you use 1 egg per cup of milk, no matter what kind of milk you use.  You can easily substitute regular milk in for the coconut milk in this recipe.  You just throw everything into the blender straight out of the fridge so everything is cold, and blend the hell out of it.  Our honey is super duper sweet from our bees so I decided that 1/3 of a cup would probably be better, but if your honey isn't super sweet or you would rather use sugar, use 1/2 of a cup.  This was so yummy with our Christmas breakfast and while we opened presents, I hope you enjoy it as much as we did!

Snow Day! and Hot Cocoa

Gotta love a snow day!!! This weekend was the perfect time for a snow day after the week I just had.  We started staging for La Calisto at school and I sang in Marilyn Horne's masterclass at Carnegie Hall that was part of The Song Continues.  It was an eventful week! 

It was so nice to wake up to everything being quiet and snow covered.  The whole city pretty much shut down for a full 24 hours.  The cars were off of the streets, kids were sledding on side streets, people were using the main roads as side walks, and almost everything was closed! It was a perfect way to be forced into relaxation. Michael and I went out and braved the storm in the afternoon just long enough to explore a bit.  It was so beautiful!

After our snowy adventure we came back to warm up with some home made hot chocolate.  This recipe is perfect for those who want to use dairy for some in addition to non dairy.  This is more of a hot cocoa mix, just liquid instead of powdered like the ones that you find in the supermarket.  Here we go!

Hot Cocoa Mix

3 cups of water

1/3 cup of sugar

1/4 cup of honey

3/4 cup of cocoa

1/3 chocolate chips

creamer/milk of some kind

mini marshmallows :)

Put water, sugar, honey, cocoa, and chocolate chips into a sauce pan and melt it all together.  Once everything is super hot and melted, mix one part cocoa mixture with 1 part creamer.  Michael used half and half and I used coconut milk.  Both were fantastic!

Of course we put some mini marshmallows on top, that's pretty much a necessity with hot cocoa!

I hope you enjoy it as much as we did!