![]() ![]() I varied each delivery, too - sometime just soup, sometimes both soup and cookies, and if I haven’t seen someone in a really long time, a little something extra. In the beginning of my run, I had homemade Valentines I delivered with the goodies. ![]() If none of my friends were there, I’d drop a treat off on their doorstep and sent them a photo text of it to let them know someone was thinking of them. I’d already done half that by ten a.m., so I just started driving around, stopping at people’s houses and leaving deliveries wherever I went (four cookies for a family = four persons impacted). Sipping a latte and planning my day, I thought - I’d like to feed or touch base with fifty people today. I didn’t want to bring any home and I thought what now? Tuesday night I baked up the shortbread so that Wednesday morning I could finish up all my soups (adding a touch more lemon, Greek yogurt and herbs for added last-minute flavor) and hit the road earlyish with my stash.įirst, a huge batch of soups went to all Charlotte’s teachers and front office staff at school they all got a pint of soup to either enjoy at lunch or bring home for a light supper.Ī lot of cookies were distributed, too –and sometimes just left on a chair if the teacher wasn’t in the classroom at the moment.Īfter I was finished at the school, I still had lots of cookies and soup left in the car. The dough is ridiculously easy to pull togetherĪnd then you wrap it in Saran Wrap and form it into long logs - perfect for cutting into slices after a complete chill. I had to buy the salted butter as I usually only have unsalted at home, but I did have that enormous dark chocolate bar I’d bought over the holidays and this was the perfect time to break it out. It’s a simple recipe and chances are you probably have the ingredients on hand as we speak. I thought Valentine’s Day was the perfect time to give it a test run. In the past month or so, it seems like every blogger, baker, and Instagrammer has waxed poetic about this cookie, a hybrid combining the best elements of both chocolate chip cookie and buttery shortbread. Salted Dark Chocolate Chunk Shortbread Cookies.Īpparently this recipe from pastry chef/cookbook author Alison Roman came from her book but this particular recipe really took off when published in the New York Times late last year. I made a colossal mess, because not just it was all that soup I made, but I also decide to tackle another recipe this time for one that’s been taking the Internet by storm. So this past weekend, I cooked up a storm, making twelve quarts of soup - both Roasted Carrot with Quinoa and Fennel and Gingery Chicken Dal. I thought back on those eleven years of joy he brought us all and I thought what was most fitting was to spread some of that love around to those who might need a lift or I hadn’t seen in a long while. This year was obviously going to be different and in the weeks leading up to yesterday, I thought what I could do to celebrate and honor my dear friend. He was our sweetheart, our furry Valentine. We were told he was probably born in February (he was a rescue with hazy background details) and we jointly decided to make Valentine’s Day his birthday, and every year since we celebrated and feted him on that day. The vintage cards.Īnd then, a handful of years into parenting, we got Bailey, and our connection with Valentines Day deepened. Having kids returned me to the joy of this holiday. If I was single, I felt particularly unlovable on that day, and if I was with a certain someone, I hated the pressure - was this relationship “The One“? It’s like the holiday always set up unrealistic expectations around me and then brought out the worst in my insecurities.Īs a teenager, I felt like I had to question my worthiness as a mate: was I beautiful or unique enough to inspire undying devotion?Īs a young woman, in and out of relationships, I felt like the romantic utopia was unrealistic, unattainable. I’ve never been Team Rah-Rah when it comes to Valentine’s Day as a romantic holiday I’ve always bristled at the forced frivolity and cloying sentimentality of it. As Valentine’s Day approached, I tried to think what I should do that day. ![]()
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