Going down in mysterious ways

[sovay]

Our oven failed to light twice tonight, so I decided discretion was the better part of not being blown out a window and made a kind of peanut butter oatmeal no-bake cookie from a family recipe of spatch's. Basically, you start with penuche and then add protein. They came out deliciously. I am mostly existing at the moment, but my godchild called this evening to tell me about their day and the present they are painting for one of their grandparents and a couple of parcels arrived in the mail. I am cooking with a lot of tinned fish and regret nothing. I wish bell hooks were not dead.

Comments

[lauradi7dw]

That sounds very much like a dessert from the school cafeteria of my boomer childhood.

[sovay]

That sounds very much like a dessert from the school cafeteria of my boomer childhood.

I wouldn't be surprised—I don't think it's a recent recipe. The original formulation calls for chocolate to be added after the brown sugar/butter/milk stage, but since I can't eat chocolate, they come out very peanut butter penuche.

[minoanmiss]

I wish alongside you. But/and hooray for cookies and for your godchild, who always shines in your chronicles!

[sovay]

I wish alongside you.

*hugs*

But/and hooray for cookies and for your godchild, who always shines in your chronicles!

They are a shining godchild! I still hope for a future where they can actually just come up and visit and I can take them to the sea.

[kore]

Man, your oven is a menace.

It is selfish but I just personally did not need that news about bell hooks at nearly the end of a terrible year. And she was only 69!

[sovay]

Man, your oven is a menace.

It's our new stove, too: it was installed in the spring of 2019 and I can guarantee we have done nothing extraordinary on it since but cook for two people and cats. The burners are still working, but I haven't tried to use the oven since. If it does not light uncomplicatedly when I do, I am going to have to deal with the property manager about it, and I am really not looking forward to that.

It is selfish but I just personally did not need that news about bell hooks at nearly the end of a terrible year. And she was only 69!

No one needed this news! She was not an appropriate age.

*hugs*

[asakiyume]

I vicariously love both your niece and your godchild.

I am sorry bell hooks is not with us anymore. You would have thought the universe could have given her more time.

[sovay]

I vicariously love both your niece and your godchild.

I consider this only reasonable, as they are very lovable.

I am sorry bell hooks is not with us anymore. You would have thought the universe could have given her more time.

I was saying to spatch that I wanted her to go like Sondheim. Twenty years from now.

*hugs*