"Life..."

Chuckling here

"Life..."

 

Sometimes Chocolate cake is less confusing than Devil's Food .  I mean it.  Just go shred some Macadamia nuts, mix in some Dove dark chocolate bits, Hershey's Cocoa, some Land o'Lakes butter, sweet cream milk, Pillsbury's Best, a touch of Crisco, a couple of farmer's market fresh eggs, a dash of real vanilla (go figure?).  Hand stir with a FORK - no mixer bull - for a coupla minutes.  Pour into a Bundt pan and bake for 47 minutes... my oven doesn't do 45.

When its done - A lil powdered sugar mixed with butter... glaze the top.  And voila` - sit there and listen to all those voices inside telling you "NO!...NO!... " as you slowly and with full malice of forethought chew your way through a SLAB of "Goodness" and afterward stare with longing at that lil ice-chiped full glass of milk awaiting your pleasure. 

See - its so not confusing at all when you take life that way...

Chris

Author's Note

feel free

Reviews

[Jasmine]

SLAB OF GOODNESS......this is what you and this poem are.

[Chris]

...and it's only Monday...

[Jasmine]

Fancy baking up some of this delight and emailing chocolate cake to us all? Want to invent a way to do that while you're at it? Or turn into Willy Wonka...?

[Renée]

Oh Dear! This is quite evil .. I must indulge !

[Chris]

we DO indulge ...with every breathe.

[Chris]

Breathe and breath... sigh

[Rene Velez]

true indeed, I'm not a chocolate ice cream kinda guy, but love chocolate cake over vanilla any day, this sound great on a day like today, hand over a slice buddy...

[Chris]

anytime Rene, anytime at all man...

[Eve]

Surrendering to the chocolate, this sounds delicious, I am going to save this recipe for the next time I need a guilty pleasure to make me feel better about life in general.

[Chris]

Never scrimp on the ingredients of a recipe... you only shortchange your self. I'm glad you paused...Hope you come back sometime.

[B. Maaitah]

sophisticated yet not complex, detailed yet not redundant, unpretentious yet not simplistic, sweet yet not sugary... your chocolate cake, your life..

incredibly original work... a tasty treat to indulge my literature buds with...

[Chris]

The nicest thing about a surprise is having her pause with you and leave her thoughts as a remembrance.

[Emily B]

oh, yum! warm chocolate cake on a cold and rainy day, there ain't much better

[KAOlmsted]

...now I want cake. And nothing else matters. I see what you mean. Everything just...stops...when the oven is going and there is a warm sweet treat inside. The clock is merely an instrument to gauge how much time remains before the timer goes off. The only anxiety felt is whether or not it will rise properly; whether or not it will turn out moist; whether or not the top will burn. Whoever stopped to pay a bill or watch the news or fume over some perceived wrong-doing with cake in the oven? Cake. And nothing else matters.

Well done.

[Chris]

I share... bad me...

[KAOlmsted]

I was pleased the beverage of choice was milk and not coffee *laugh*

[Chris]

Coffee is for the "later" moments while you think on your "sins" of the day and the ones you'll commit after you put down that empty mug of "ambrosia"... There is something about three and four day old coffee ...it talks back with "Tude" so damn clearly - ya know?

[KAOlmsted]

Chris. Friend. Brilliant Poet. If I am not going to drink your freshly brewed coffee, what makes you think I would know what sort of 'tude your four day old coffee has. *laugh* Oh hey, I just came up with a new Starbucks flavor: Chris' Brewed Tude! (I get half the royalties ;-) )

[Chris]

You should see what I do to tea!!...