I guess I could come up with some pretty good excuses:
1. I battled a gnarly sinus infection for about 8 weeks there. No lie. Nothing would get rid of it. The netty pot became my best friend.
2. Then I got the flu. For the first time. Ever. It was awful. 103.7 degree temps are no fun.
3. Because of the aforementioned excuses I lost my sense of smell and thus taste. And when you can't taste you can't cook.
4. Who wants to eat food prepared by someone who's sick??? Even if I had cooked something, I wouldn't have felt right asking someone to eat it.
5. I still haven't been able to transfer all of my old food photos onto my new laptop and thus can't blog them.
6. By the time I get home and cook something there is ZERO daylight left which means I can't take photos in our sunroom the way I like. I've tried shooting with artificial lighting and I never can get it to look the way I want it to.
And honestly I just needed a break. I tried to take a break here and there for a while, but 1 or 2 weeks just wasn't enough. I needed a breather. This blog is just a hobby, but it takes a great deal of time and I think I just got burnt out.
I felt like every post there was an apology for the week of silence followed by a promise that I was back in action. But really I just needed to step back from everything a bit.
So for my return post I wanted to feature something that I absolutely loved. And these red velvet s'more bars fit the bill :) I always loved sitting around a fire, whether I was camping or just in someone's back yard, and toast a marshmallow until it turned that perfect golden color. That meant it was just crispy on the outside, but still warm and not burnt to a crisp on the inside. And of course you always had to have half a Hershey's bar for each smore. I don't know how some people can use just one or two of those tiny little squares.
5. I still haven't been able to transfer all of my old food photos onto my new laptop and thus can't blog them.
6. By the time I get home and cook something there is ZERO daylight left which means I can't take photos in our sunroom the way I like. I've tried shooting with artificial lighting and I never can get it to look the way I want it to.
And honestly I just needed a break. I tried to take a break here and there for a while, but 1 or 2 weeks just wasn't enough. I needed a breather. This blog is just a hobby, but it takes a great deal of time and I think I just got burnt out.
I felt like every post there was an apology for the week of silence followed by a promise that I was back in action. But really I just needed to step back from everything a bit.
So for my return post I wanted to feature something that I absolutely loved. And these red velvet s'more bars fit the bill :) I always loved sitting around a fire, whether I was camping or just in someone's back yard, and toast a marshmallow until it turned that perfect golden color. That meant it was just crispy on the outside, but still warm and not burnt to a crisp on the inside. And of course you always had to have half a Hershey's bar for each smore. I don't know how some people can use just one or two of those tiny little squares.
This recipe is the perfect solution when you want to have a great comfort food-type dessert for a get together, yet you don't have a fire pit in sight. These little guys were super easy to make and certainly won't last long once you bring them out!
*More pics coming tonight! Apparently they didn't save on the draft, but I didn't want to delay the post just for that reason.
