Life of Wry

Remember that episode of That Girl back in the 60s when Marlo Thomas got a call from her boyfriend Donald who said he was going to bring over some business associates and expected her to be a good hostess, but she had no food in the house?  Remember she searched her pantry and all she had was a box of Corn Flakes and some peanut butter and in desperation spread peanut butter on individual flakes of corn, arranged them artfully on a serving platter.. and pulled the whole thing off?

I didn’t do that.  But I was reminded of that show this morning as I spread melted chocolate on my putty-colored almond toffee, in an effort to dress them up a little.  The really teeny ones, especially, reminded me of Marlo carefully spreading peanut butter on her flakes.

Here’s the chocolate spreading operation:

And close up:

I really liked them.  My kind of candy.

Here’s some rocky road up close (also pretty good!):

And here’s a look at the whole enchilada (well, minus the stuff I baked a couple weeks ago):

So, ya know, it’s the Christmas season…. but at least there’s BAKING.  And delivering.  And talking to people when you deliver the goods.  And bringing stuff home that they give you in return.

That’s all pretty damn fun.