homemade horchata

every time i eat a taco 

(which is two or three times a week--

it's kind of insane.)

there are two choices of beverage:

horchata or jamaica.

both of which are awesome. 

so we decided to try to make our own horchata. 

(we'll try to make the jamaica later.)

so rcg found a horchata recipe

and we went to work.

first, you soak rice and cinnamon sticks in water

overnight.

 

1 cup long grain white rice

4 cups water

2 cinnamon sticks

the next morning you put the mixture

sans the cinnamon sticks

into a blender.

once it has been blended,

you strain it through cheese cloth

to get all of the small rice particles 

that didn't get blended.

then you add:

milk 

brown sugar

vanilla extract

and cinnamon

1/4 tsp. ground cinnamon

1 cup milk

1/3 cup brown sugar

1 1/4 tsp. vanilla extract

stir it up. 

enjoy. 

of course it would be great

if we weren't so flippin' dumb:

we totally forgot to use bottled water. 

idiots.

so we made it again.

and it was totally worth it.