bitter dark or sweet,
liquid or in solid form
more than just a luscious treat
it’s really food porn
one taste is pure bliss, endorphin steeped
~kat
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February Poem #14
Chocolate-Dipped Shortbread Rounds
I don’t have sweets around very often, but when I do, I prefer a plain baked crustless cheesecake, strawberry rhubarb pie or shortbread cookies. Fortunately the latter does not take a lot of fuss to bake from scratch. The basic Scottish Shortbread (shout out to my ancestors!) is a mildly sweet, buttery cookie, perfect for dipping in one’s tea, or a tall glass of ice cold milk!
I’m betting you probably have all the ingredients on hand. It only takes about 45 minutes or so to whip up a batch! Here’s all you need:
Ingredients
1/2 cup sugar
1 cup room temperature butter
2 cups all purpose flour
Some recipes will have you fussing with unsalted butter, adding salt separately along with other ingredients like powdered sugar and vanilla, but I like to keep my shortbreads simple, except for maybe a bit of chocolate. This is optional though. If you’re not into chocolate (I’m not sure I can trust you! JK!!!) you can add a bit more sweetness to your cookies by sprinkling the tops with sugar before you bake them.
Preheat your oven to 325 degrees F. Cream the sugar and butter together until well blended. Add the flour a 1/2 cup at a time blending to ensure that the dry is well incorporated into the dough.
Turn out onto a flat surface and kneed the dough for a few minutes so that it is smooth enough to roll out (it has a consistency of pie crust).
Roll to 1/4 inch thickness and cut your cookies in your desired shapes, placing on an UNgreased cookie sheet.
These cookies don’t spread or expand in size so you can place them fairly close together. This recipe yields about 2 dozen 2 inch rounds. You can also cut them into “finger” shapes if you prefer.
Put in the oven, set your timer for 25 minutes (give or take a few – it’s always a good idea calibrate your oven’s cooking time the first time to try a new recipe.) The tops of your cookies will be a pale golden brown and the bottoms will be a darker golden hue.
While your cookies are cooling melt semI-sweet chocolate chips according to the package instructions. I like to use a cup or a short drinking glass in the microwave to make dipping easier. Take care not to burn the chocolate (a lesson learned from personal experience!).Dip your cookies halfway and place on waxed paper to cool. I had thought about doing a nice plated view for you, but I was afraid they might not last that long…so here they are! Enjoy!!!
Sunday’s Week in ReVerse ~ 14 February 2016
Photo Credit: Kat Myrman 2014
Happy Valentine’s Day Sunday! If I may wax poetic, this week’s ReVerse is rather poetic…poetic in its melancholic musings, sentimental walks down lanes of memories wrapped in chocolate and flowers. Did I plan this? Most certainly not! It is a game the Muse plays with me. How very clever of her, don’t you think?
Not to worry, the week wasn’t all sappy and sweet. There were hints of poetic justice as well. Enter the scoundrels…the handsome blind date (or was he just a rude stalker!), politicians (no comment…), time…if time was a scoundrel (I have no doubt that our modern electronic clocks have an evil plan to drive us all crazy!), scary nature (requiring a safety net of creature comforts for those brave souls who venture off the grid), the corporate scoundrel…jerk! creep! *#%%%*#!!!!! (forgive me…too soon), and finally Jack Frost (well, he was certainly implied. Soon to sweep the blush from the daffodils.) As exciting as all this has been…what do I do? I take photographs!
I’m going to digress for a bit…but I promise to bring it home…trust me.
The greatest technology of the 21st Century for me is the phone camera! A few decades ago, I did labor in the bowels of my amber-lit basement, elbow deep in smelly chemicals developing my own photographs. Editing required cutting and pasting (really!…cutting with scissors and pasting with glue), re-photographing and developing. All things being digital has opened up a whole new world to us all.
But here’s the thing…yes, there is a thing…
My last story this week reminded me of a lost art that needs a revisit…letter writing. Lovely handwritten notes on pretty paper penned by one’s favorite pen (for me it is a fountain pen loaded with cerulean blue ink). I even read last week that schools are considering dropping cursive writing lessons from their curriculum! A very sad turn of events indeed!
And so as I look forward to next week, I’m planning to pen a few letters to those friends who do not frequent social media…and maybe even a few who are digitally savvy. I have become woefully out of touch with them. What better day for inspiration than today, Valentine’s Day! Join me if you’d like. If there is one thing I’ve learned in life it is this, those who love you don’t want your chocolates or flowers…they want your words…<3
Sunday’s Week in ReVerse ~ 14 February 2016
A treasured timepiece,
here or hereafter.
sweet dreams to all you dreamers.
They are forever etched on my heart
She always reserved room for chocolate.
He knew she was lying.
fair blooms in waiting.
you certainly cannot win
abstaining from all pleasure
take a moment to breathe
proving their own lack.
She had the last laugh.
to appear able
a luddite’s nightmare!
But not without a backpack of creature comforts.
He took credit for her work.
So I took a photograph for you.
~ kat
If you’re new to this blog, a bit of background to explain the verse above. It is a line from each poem or prose from the previous week. Lifted and placed in the order written. A snapshot review of the week. It helps me to prepare for the upcoming week with a clean slate.
Pleasure – A Six Word Story
Photo Credit: Pixabay Public Domain
She always reserved room for chocolate.
kat ~ 9 February 2016
A Six Word Story based on the Prompt:” Pleasure”. Thanks to Nicola Aukland a “Sometimes Stellar Storyteller” for hosting. Read more HERE.
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