Hubby and I on a vacation in Europe |
At any rate, since being sweet to your husband is this year's outrageously offensive behavior, I thought I'd be even more scandalous and advocate cooking again.
I know this cooking habit of mine is downright stereotypical of me, but I can't help myself. My husband eats. My children eat. Even I have been known to eat. My family is referred to as the "Plague of Locusts" among our friends. We descend upon a kitchen and leave dishes spinning in our wake. If I didn't cook, just imagine the effort entailed in feeding the Martin Hordes. I'd have to strap five children in their age appropriate car torture devices and appear with them in public. I'd have to comb hair, wipe faces, and even wear shoes! Anything but that! Have you seen my shoes? Cooking is my only recourse against such horrors.
I wear them because he likes them! |
It doesn't help that I'm cheap. To move Martins, we must use a vehicle. The vehicle has about 6 round trip town runs in its tank. I have to tell you that what I cook, for the most part, is better than the food we can afford once we feed this member of the Martin Family.
Most restaurant food isn't worth the gas. |
So, now that I've got my daily recommended allowance of snark out of my system and have once again implied that I seriously believe that wives should at least act as if they like their husbands, I guess I should give you the candy recipe. I adapted it from a magazine that advocates, among other anti-happiness propaganda that wives should have boyfriends to practice being nice to. I guess that makes sense. Since we gals are supposed to treat our husbands authentically (i.e., rudely, impulsively, irrationally), we have to make nice somewhere or we'd lose all social skills before our divorce.
Gumdrops
6 tbs (8 envelopes) of unflavored gelatin
1 1/2 cups cold water
2 1/4 cups boiling water
6 cups sugar
Sugar to coat
extract to taste (5 drops butter extract, 3 drops mint extract is super yummy!)
food coloring as desired (try some of the neon colors)Don't hate me because I'm sweet! |
Very fun article! I'm excited to try the gumdrops!
ReplyDeleteI am so glad you enjoyed both. I was in a bit of a mood when I wrote it. The gumdrops are good, though, even if I was a bit ornery.
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