Life on the Vine

A few things to know before I get to the point of this post.  I am a big fan of Rachel Ray and the Food Network.  That's one thing I am missing here in Germany - the Food Network - but I did bring along several Rachel Ray cookbooks though.  Rachel used to have this show called "40 Dollars a Day" where she would travel to a tourist location or popular city and eat on the town for less than $40 a day.  A show ran several years ago where she went to Spain and in the show she went to this little cafe and had the thickest hot chocolate I'd ever seen and she enjoyed it with a churro, a Spanish fritter.  I thought, and told Tom then, that when we made it to Spain I was going to have one of those thick hot chocolates.  Well, I didn't have to wait until getting to Spain to try this luscious dessert.  Last weekend Tom came home after being gone for a month.  We had planned that I'd take a few days off from work and that we'd travel to Garmisch, here in Germany,