Lonesome Furniture and Shredded Cheese: Use Your Words

 

 

Today’s post is a monthly writing challenge. If you’re new here, this is how it works: participating bloggers picked 4 – 6 words or short phrases for someone else to craft into a post. All words must be used at least once. All of the posts will be unique as each writer has received their own set of words. That’s the challenge, here’s a fun twist; no one who’s  participating knows who got their words and in what direction the recipient will take them. Until now.

At the end of this post you’ll find links to the other blogs featuring this challenge. Check them all out, see what words they got and how they used them.

 

 

 

 

I'm using: shredded cheese ~ capital ~ lonesome ~ furniture ~ lopsided ~ future

They were submitted by Jenniy of Climaxed.

                          
We were coming to the end of PurDude's visit {{sob}}. I had finalized the assignments or this Use Your Words post, and was looking at my prompts without a thought in my head.

 

It's no secret I've asked my boys a million times to write me a guest posts, always to no avail {{sigh}}.

 

Nothing wrong with a little persistence though, right? In the spirit off nothing ventured, nothing gained? Although with these boys, so far something ventured is also nothing gained.

 

Me: I could use a little help here.
PurDude (looking at me skeptically): Help in what way?

Me: Well, I have to write a post, about anything at all, but it has to use certain words.

PurDude: What words?
Me: I'll show you the list.

PurDude, who doesn't cook, even needs specific detailed instructions, and copious amounts of cajoling to heat up the leftovers I send home with him (along with disposable pans, btw), looks at the first prompt: Forget it, mom, you don't need any help. Shredded cheese, really? You'd know what to do with that better than I would. Just put it in your recipe.

Me: Just put it in my recipe? Do you know much work is involved with the food? I have to develop a recipe, name it, cook the food, photograph it, edit . . . that requires working a month out. I already have a recipe for his post, and there is cheese, but it's not shredded.

PurDude: That's easy then, just add shredded cheese over the top. Everything tastes better with shredded cheese spread over the top.

Me (exasperated): Ugh! It doesn't work that way.

 

Apricot Mozzarella Crostata

Me: And anyway, what about my lopsided future? My lonesome furniture?

PurDude: It's OK, Mom, you're not alone, since covid, everyone's future is a bit lopsided. And the furniture is only lonesome because we'd all spent so much time at home with it and now we're going out more. it'll get over it. And if not, there's always therapy.

Me: That may be (illogical) logic, (lopsided) advice even, but not so much a blog post.

PurDude: Listen, Mom, I've done what I could here. And you're welcome. But for the rest of it, you're on you own.

 

A lot of help he was. Although . . . I guess I could capitalize on the whole conversation . . .

 

Here are links to all the other Use Your Words posts:

On the Border 

The Diary of an Alzheimer’s Caregiver 

Climaxed

Part-time Working Hockey Mom

 

Apricot Mozzarella Crostata       

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Printable Recipe

Ingredients:
1 refrigerator pie crust

2 oz prosciutto wrapped mozzarella (can substitute chopped prosciutto and sliced mozzarella)

1/4 cup chopped pecans

about 4 dried apricots

Directions:
*Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cover baking sheet with parchment paper.

*Unroll the pie crust onto the parchment paper and, using a rolling pin, roll out to about 13 inches in diameter. Roll the edges in, just barely, then roll once more to form a border. Your crust should now be about 12 inches in diameter

*Slice the prosciutto wrapped mozzarella into about 1/3 inch slices and spread around on the crust. Top with the pecans.

*Bake for 25 minutes. 

*Chop the dried apricots and sprinkle over the crostata. Cut and serve.