Snowball is one of the simplest blocks I've ever made; with a triangle in each corner. This block is simpler still, with only two triangles. It may not look like much right now, but just wait until I get 168 of these babies together!
Magic Valentine’s Pudding
4 cups frozen cherries, thawed
2 cups sugar, divided
1/2 cup of butter
1 cup self-rising flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/3 cup Dutch-process cocoa
1 cup milk
Stir cherries and 1 cup of the sugar together in a saucepan. Cook over medium heat until sugar dissolves. Use microwave to melt butter in 2-quart glass baking dish. Combine remaining ingredients and stir into melted butter. Spoon cherries on top of batter and bake at 350 F for 35 minutes. The cherries will sink as they bake, just like magic. Serve warm with cream or ice cream.
I made Swedish meatballs for Sunday supper. In my own kitchen this is a simple meal to prepare. But without a cookie sheet for the meatballs, a stockpot for the noodles, or a wire whisk for the cream sauce, it was unbelievably complicated. I would have liked to make a nice sausage lasagna or double chocolate brownies for Valentine’s Day, but dishes like that will have to wait a few weeks. The suite we’re renting while we wait for our furniture to arrive has an oven but no baking dishes. When we stayed in Florida last December our suite had plenty of baking dishes but no oven. Six weeks ago today the movers packed my whole kitchen except for the kettle, two mugs and a teaspoon. These they left for the very last because they needed them to make tea. It didn’t take much to keep those sturdy Yorkshire lads happy. They had their cuppa; what more did they need?
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