I will continue the holiday baking with Chocolate Oat Bars, requested by my daughter, a recipe from Joy of Cooking, (stained) pages 702-703 in my particular edition. These are the cookie bars I gave to my husband early in our courtship, which, evidently, made him think I could cook. (I can't, except accidentally.) The theory is that the rolled oats will roll away the sweetened condensed milk, chocolate, and cholesterol. No worries.
And there's a nice picture of the sun and moon on the same horizon, a thing that happened during that recent eclipse, over at Escape Into Life, in the blog, where I have posted a mini-review of Killing the Murnion Dogs, by Joe Wilkins, decorated with art by Phillip Compton. It's a wonderful book that crunched and unfolded my origami heart.
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Thank you for highlighting Wilkins's work. I'm not familiar with him, and your review shows him to be a poet to put on my list and read.
Anytime you want to send a batch of those bars down south, we'd be ready for them. ;)
Nuts or no nuts, Sandy? Just for future reference... I am almost all baked out. Tonight: corn muffins to go with the taco soup my mom's making. Tomorrow, well, that's a secret, somewhat tropical.
Thanks, Maureen. I do hope you will seek out Joe Wilkins's work. He's a wonderful poet.
No nuts! I'm a purist. :)
I wonder how many marriages are built on a foundation of cookies. If you throw in cakes and pies too, probably about half.
We always used the Tollhouse recipe...
I did not know that that was what solstice meant, so now you've taught me one.
Seana, I learn everything from you, The Writer's Almanac, Wikipedia, books, and NPR. That gets mixed in with stuff I can remember from all those years in school, plus purists and nuts.
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