Welcome to the second ImprovCooking Challenge of 2017. This group is now headed up by Nichole of Cookaholic Wife . The idea behind Improv Cooking Challenge: we are assigned two ingredients and are challenged to create a recipe with those two things. This month's items: chocolate and chiles. I considered a lot of different things from spiced truffles to chile-flecked chocolate cremeux. But, in the end, the boys reminded me of a chocolate drink we made when I taught a six-week elective class at their school about chocolate! We had read a book about the Mayans. The Mayans made chocol haa ; the Aztecs, after they conquered the Mayans, made xocolatl. Xocolatl comes from the Aztec language, xococ meaning sour or bitter, and atl meaning water or drink. Bitter water. That's a far cry from our modern day, milky hot chocolate drinks. And since we remembered not really liking xocolatl ,...