HAPPY ALMOST VALENTINE'S DAY
I have a sweetheart giveaway below, but first...

You know how authors are often doing something promotional nowadays? We make bookmarks, we write blogs, we interact on social media. We give trinkets like mugs and kitchen jar openers and spatulas as "swag."
Well, the group from Mystery Lovers Kitchen annually make recipe cards that we give out as "swag" packets at Malice Domestic Mystery Conference in April. I am in charge of putting all those cards together. We make 250 packets of about 12 recipe cards (each with a cover from our current book titles). For the last 5 years, Krista has lovingly attended to the duty. This year, I said I would take charge. So everyone sent me their cards. They're beautiful. The recipes look delicious!

Well, here's the mini-disaster. This weekend, I decided to make the recipe on my card. I'd made it before, of course, but it was easiest to grab a card and follow instructions rather than search for the recipe on my computer. It's a recipe from GRILLING THE SUBJECT.
Yes, you're going to get a sneak preview and it's PERFECT for Valentine's Day.
Why was it a mini-disaster? Because when I read the recipe card, lo and behold, the directions were WRONG. A mess. I obviously did not proof-read! I've been a little addled lately.
So...
I have to make a whole new set of them because I refuse to put out a card that is a mess. My other card for FOR CHEDDAR OR WORSE was perfect, so at least I wasn't a total disaster when it came to concentration.
But, yes, you guessed it, I get to bring out the box of 250 sets of cards, set them all on my coffee table, turn on Downton Abbey (this time), and pull out 250 GRILLING THE SUBJECT recipe cards and replace with "new" GRILLING THE SUBJECT recipe cards. By the way, that was a costly mistake. You can bet I will be proof-reading with a much keener eye in the future! Until I don't, of course, because I am mistake-prone lately.
Did I mention I had a freak accident a few weeks ago? Tune in for that story! LOL
Here's the RIGHT recipe for Jenna's Mom's Chocolate Pudding. It is SUPER EASY. Luckily it turned out so well that it has been assuaging my feelings of total and utter stupidity.
Jenna’s
Mom’s Easy Chocolate Pudding
[4 servings]
2/3 cup
sugar
1/4 cup
cocoa
3
tablespoons cornstarch
1/4 teaspoon
salt
2 1/4 cups
milk
2
tablespoons butter
1 teaspoon
vanilla extract
Whipped
cream
In a medium
saucepan (no heat yet), stir together sugar, cocoa, cornstarch, and salt. Now
stir in the milk. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until the mixture
boils. Remove from heat and stir in the butter and vanilla.
Pour into
individual dessert dishes. Note! To keep a skin from forming on the
top, press some plastic wrap on the surface of the pudding!
Refrigerate at least 2 hours. When ready, remove the plastic wrap,
and top each with whipped topping, if desired.
NEWSLETTER

TODAY'S VALENTINE GIVEAWAY!

Daryl Wood Gerber aka Avery Aames
Tasty ~ Zesty ~ Dangerous!
Something sweet = receiving my favorite flowers, red roses, as a "just because I'm thinking of you" gift. So sweet, indeed. Liz Stark EMS591@aol.com
ReplyDeleteAwwwwww. So sweet! Lucky you.
Delete~ Daryl / Avery
Watch those apostrophes. Love the recipe! Dspinlexo@aol.com
ReplyDeleteWell, I don't see an apostrophe problem, so fill me in. But I repeat medium saucepan in the first sentence. And then I also have "and 1 minute" - um, what the heck does that mean? LOL
Delete~ Daryl / Avery
Oh Daryl/Avery, sorry about the error! I guess it was a good thing you were the one putting them together...the pudding looks beautiful.
ReplyDeleteGood for me. Mind you, I did not read everyone else's cards. LOL I'm just so glad my other one was "fine." Sigh.
Delete~ Daryl / Avery
Welcome to the land of addle-pated beings! (Not surprisingly, spellcheck is confused over my choice of words)
ReplyDeleteThis sounds like a wonderfully easy pudding. Thanks
And it's wonderfully delicious, too! Addle-pated. I love that word!
Delete~ Daryl / Avery
Yikes! Well, it's a good thing that you decided to make some pudding - lol! It just proves that chocolate really is good for you because if you hadn't had a craving you might have missed the error. p.s. I must be missing the error, unless it's "medium saucepan" twice in the first sentence....not awake enough yet! :-) p.p.s. Pudding looks decadent!!! :-) Nicole nicolev.girldetective@gmail.com
ReplyDeleteYep, that's it. Twice I need a medium saucepan. Really? LOL I wasn't awake when I wrote it and reread it, apparently! ~ Daryl / Avery
DeleteLol! :-)
DeleteStuff happens, so don't beat yourself up (at least you caught the mistake in time!). We see what we expect to see, and two saucepans are better than none. Looks delicious!
ReplyDeleteHa-ha! Just like two heads... LOL
Delete~ Daryl / Avery
My mother, who died when I was in high school, made the best chocolate pudding - and I liked to eat it warm. Chocolate pudding always reminds me of her.
ReplyDeleteKarlene, I'm sorry your mom passed away so early (I lost my father young - a great loss), but what a lovely memory to have about the pudding.
Delete~ Daryl / Avery
Glad you caught it before the cards went out! Something sweet that happened: Every year, I give my employees holiday gifts but don't expect gifts. A new employee went to the trouble of learning which candy bar is my favorite and giving me a bouquet of them! cheers@marjimmanor.com
ReplyDeleteOh, wow, what fun is that! Nice employee.
Delete~ Daryl / Avery
It's good that you caught it before you gave out the cards.
ReplyDeletesgiden at verizon(.)net
Yep. I have learned my lesson...I hope.
Delete~ Daryl / Avery
I received an amaryllis from the lady I do grocery shopping for every week. The best present this year were tickets to two performances. suefoster109@netzero.net.
ReplyDeleteNice. 2 performances of what? Love theater.
Delete~ Daryl / Avery
Yummy!! Reminds me I need to get cocoa on my next shopping trip. nungwa@hotmail.com
ReplyDeleteShelli, yes. I used Penzey's, but I'm sure any high grade cocoa