Coinciding with Valentine's Day, this week, @missy and @rambo want to know our secret recipes for love. With a caveat... it's a contest and the winner(s) get some sweet SG goodies. I wonder if they'll consider members for the prize or just SGs and SGHs. Maybe they'll award a prize to one of the ladies and a prize to a member. Maybe they'll read so many good blogs that they'll award multiple prizes. We shall see...
Anyway, my secret recipe for love was mixed up in the sink by the gypsy with the gold capped tooth. It smells like turpentine and looks like Indian ink. Love Potion #9.
Ha Ha!
Everyone has certain qualities they look for in a love interest. They are different for everyone. There's the old cliche, but it's got truth to it... "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder." Everyone has their own definition of beauty. There's a second cliche, "Beauty is only skin deep." There's less truth in this one, I think. Often inner beauty outshines outer beauty. And in a society that often has a narrow definition of beauty, outer beauty can be fleeting. But inner beauty lasts a lifetime.
A little more than a year ago (January 2017) I wrote a rather lengthy blog, The Courtship Of Mrs. DeadGuitarist. Read it if you like. I think there's some good insight to a lasting love and marriage there. And there's this nugget of wisdom in there too: "Keep looking for the qualities in a mate you think you want. But don't dismiss someone who doesn't have one, two, or any of them at all. You might find that your dream person is nothing like what you expect."
Enough dilly dallying. Here's my real RECIPE FOR LOVE.
Hershey's Kisses (as many as needed)
1 cup sugar, brown sugar or equal amounts of each
1/2 cup crushed potato chips (try salt and vinegar)
1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
1 egg
1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
1.2 cup butter or margarine, softened
3/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 cup powdered sugar
4 tablespoons cinnamon
2 teaspoons chili powder or cayenne pepper powder
Sugar represents the sweetness of romance. Without romance, love cannot blossom.
Crushed potato chips represent honesty. Honesty can often be salty and taste of vinegar... sometimes the honest truth is hard to swallow. But love is but a lie if there is no honesty.
Peanut butter represents joy. I don't know about anyone else, but peanut butter gives me joy. I love peanut butter. Love is joyous! Love cannot exist without joy.
Butter/margarine represents tolerance. No one is perfect. Partners must be tolerant of each other's faults or love slowly dies.
Flour represents trust. It is the foundation of love. Love crumbles if there are cracks in the foundation.
Baking soda represents patience. Sometimes love needs time. Sometimes you must be patient for true love.
Baking powder represents respect. If you cannot respect your partner, how can you love him/her unconditionally?
Powdered sugar represents kindness. Lack of kindness breeds cruelty. Love cannot tolerate cruelty.
Cinnamon represents humor. Humor can be flat out funny, but it can also be cutting, biting and fiery. But humor always invokes laughter. And laughter is the spice of love.
Chili (or cayenne pepper) powder represents excitement. Love is exciting, fiery, unpredictable, passionate, just like spices made from hot peppers. Without it we may take our partners for granted, which can cause resentment and drifting apart from one another.
Finally, the Hershey's Kisses represent a lifetime of kisses. Kisses can be sweet. Kisses can be passionate. Kisses can be hot and fiery. Kisses can be tender. Kisses can be healing. Kisses are loving. Kisses are an expression of love.
Beat together the egg (self like/love), crushed potato chips (honesty), sugar (romance), butter/margarine (tolerance), and peanut butter (joy) until well blended.
Stir in flour (trust), baking soda (patience), and baking powder (respect) until the dough forms.
Mix the powdered sugar (kindness), cinnamon (humor), and chili/cayenne pepper powder (excitement) until completely mixed.
Shape dough into 1-inch balls. Roll the balls in the powdered sugar, cinnamon, chili/cayenne pepper powder mixture until thoroughly coated.
Bake for 8-10 minutes or until love begins to form on the edges (the edges start to turn brown). Remove from the oven and immediately plant a Hershey's Kiss firmly on the lips (into the center or the cookie). Place each cookie on a wire rack to cool. Then enjoy the beginning of a loving (hopefully tasty) relationship.
[EDIT] Some readers may think I forgot communication. Not really. Several of the ingredients I did specify, such as honesty, require communication. So communication is a vital ingredient for love, but since it’s integral to many other ingredients, I decided not to call it out.
Hope you enjoyed my recipe for love. If not, try Love Potion #9. Hold your nose and take a drink. Just don't kiss a cop. She'll break your bottle of Love Potion #9.
Stay tuned...
DeadGuitarist
PS I don't know if these cookies would actually taste good. But they might. If anyone actually tries this recipe, let me know how they turn out.
