Culinary Cred

I’m not sure if I will rate more or less of that once this gets posted. In my refrigerator when I first wrote this were way too many house made Sour Watermelon  Gummy Bears. I had very little to do with the making of them and even less to do with the eating of them, but apparently I was the inspiration for them. My husband swore (well after Valentine’s Day had come and gone) that the ingredients for them (including the romantic container of grass-fed gelatin) and the gummy bear mold were purchased as my Valentine’s present. The fact that I eat gummy bears only at miles 16-26 of a marathon run (and I’ve run only one marathon and will likely leave it at that) didn’t come into play in his present planning.

Appetizing

My participation included buying a small watermelon and laughing at his time-consuming preparations. Also tweeting about it. And now this.

Gum yum?

There’s something wrong about using my baking mold that spells out chocolate for the overflow of this abomination. They actually had very little taste–probably due to the out-of-season tasteless watermelon we employed. Luckily our daughter was in mile 9 of her student teaching marathon so she actually appreciated the gummy delivery and the knowledge that her father is still sweet–in a sour watermelon, grass-fed gelatin sort of way.

Hearty

Happy Valentine’s Day to all and to all some dark chocolate! I am not a traditionalist, so there will be no red roses today.

Orchids are lovely. Sadly the pot is empty now. My bad.

 

 

I made it myself only in the sense that my sister Mary Eileen wove the basket and my daughter made the heart magnet. I did purchase the Pantone postcards and put them in here though!

A chocolate or 16 from Gearharts? Sadly these are not in my possession.

Heart be still. It’s a beef heart from my heart throb. 

BaconHeart

Make some Whoopie!

impressive, no?

that’s all she wrote

heart art

Trees are often romantic–

that's all she wrote

Of course, this romantic flourish didn’t work out all that well for the tree in question as its heart art meant its wound didn’t heal. Ouch–let’s not read too much into that. Romanticism is overrated; handily dark chocolate is not.   But this bit of rustic love is a sweet touch for my neighbor girls’ treehouse.