The highest week of April’s theme of the Taxman Cometh.
Taxes are due on Monday.
I know it.
My husband reminds me of it DAILY.
My email knows it because it reminds me of it DAILY.
Last week’s cookie was Millionaire Shortbread.
Are you picking up on the way the cookies are going?
This week’s cookie is the Billionaire Bites.
This is a no-bake recipe.
11 oz caramel, melted over low-medium heat with 1 tbs of water until smooth
1 c rice krispies
1 1/2 c pecans. The recipe didn’t call for toasting. I did that all on my own.
Mix all of these together and portion out by the teaspoonfuls. The mixture is very sticky.
I let them dry overnight before I covered them in chocolate. They were still very sticky. The humidity of days of rain did not help. I am not sure if it is the fact that it’s been raining for days but the melting of 2 c melting chocolate wafers did not go smoothly until I added about a tablespoonful of coconut oil.
Dip the bites into the chocolate.
Start running out of chocolate halfway through. Decide to call those ones half-naked billionaires.
Get mad at the existence of billionaires. These are people who have billions of dollars when there is suffering and do little to help. You know the ones.
Let chocolate dry and package them up in a container for the trip to the hospital.
I don’t think anyone is going to get the half-naked billionaire joke. Perhaps if I named them the emperor is half naked they would get it. Maybe not.
Back to taxes being due on Monday. I will do the groundwork of the taxes tonight and file them. I won’t pay until Monday. The government will get my money when it is due. And not before. Even if is is only four days before. It is the principle of the thing.
Dispatches from the Evening Shift 