MONDAY'S CHILD #35

WILL TERRY

This little poem is for the prompt at Monday's Child #35.   We are asked to write a piece of children's poetry or prose, based on this wonderful illustration by Will Terry, and to post it for all to see!!

X MARKS THE SPOT

Oooh and aaahhh, 

alas and alack,

steady on guys,

there's no turning back!

X marks the spot

we're finally here!!

So if you were sniffling,

brush away that tear

The Wizard's map

showed us the way

to a mountain of candy,

a treat fine and dandy !!!

Hurray, this is the place

of lemon drop dreams

and enough chippy chocolate

to mess up your face.

The Wizard was right,

it's like winning the lotto.

Lucky for us,

X MARKS THE SPOTTO !!

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CHOCLAT SIN #23

IT'S BEEN A WHILE SINCE I POSTED a chocolate recipe.  I can't actually call this a recipe, but it does involve chocolate.  Perhaps you're familiar with this product..I must have had my head in the clouds for the last year, but I'm catching up. 

It turns out that Le Whif is a small tube of pure, organic chocolate powder that you breathe into your mouth.  Whiffing is happening all over the world.  A quick puff from the patented lipstick sized tube starts the taste experience.  Chocolate flies through the air from the end of the cylinder and sprinkles onto your tongue through small holes in the mouthpiece.  AAhhhh....

Invented by Harvard Professor David Edwards with the help of engineers, designers, and students, Le Whif was launched in April 2009 in Paris.  Le Whif contains hundreds of milligrams of tiny food particles.  Place the tube between your lips and breathe in gently.  The particles are picked up by the air stream, and they fall on your tongue.  You suddenly have the experience of flavor! 

Other inventions may have a slow road to popularity, but chocolate fills a universal need and the quicker we can have instant chocolate gratification, the better.  You can buy this all over in mixed packs of 3 or 18.  The flavors are raspberry chocolate, chocolate, and mint chocolate.  What's next for whiffing?  You can whif coffee, and get the kick of caffeine.  And no cup to wash.

I don't have one yet.  I can run down to Dylan's Candy Bar, (Dylan's daddy is Ralph Lauren, just saying), where they keep Le Whif in stock.  I think I'm a bit resistant.  Call me old fashioned.  I sort of like the sensation of dark chocolate melting on my tongue, calories and all.  I will lick my fingers if no one's looking. 

But there is something tempting about chocolate air.  I dream of a roomful of sexy, wafting chocolate.  No, make that a planet, where the atmosphere is serious bitter sweet.   


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CHOCLAT SIN..#4

WHAT IS THIS THING CALLED CHOCOLATE? Think about a world in which it had never been discovered. Imagine that the ancient Mayans never climbed a forty foot tree on which grew a pod, and found in the pod, not a pea, but a bean they christened Cacao, which they eventually called," food of the spirits". Unthinkable!
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The Mayans worshipped the cacoa bean as a heavenly gift. I'm not arguing against that...I do not worship false idols, and certainly am careful about what I place on a pedestal. Yes, I fell for chocolate a long time ago when it presented itself as a kiss. The beans were used historically to heal many ailments. The Mayans drank hot cocoa in its bitter state. Spices such as chili peppers were added. The Aztecs were the ones who added vanilla beans and honey.
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Skipping ahead a bit, currently scientists are studying chocolate and how it changes the brain. In it's raw form, chocolate is more addictive than heroin. Recent research in Sweden shows victims of heart disease are 70% less likely to have cardiac problems if they eat chocolate. Even eating it once a week can help. Dark chocolate is rich in antioxidants, but there is a caution..and that's the sugar that helps to make it what we want it to be.
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Let's pause here to give a nod to Christopher Columbus, who did more than discover the New World. He returned with the first cocoa beans. And by 1528 Cortes returned to Spain with the equipment to brew chocolate. Originally the "heavenly gift" was available only to royalty. Finally by the 17th Century, the beans became available to the masses, and Chocolate Houses became popular in England. In the 1800's Johannes Van Houten, in Holland, produced cocoa powder, and candy companies made fortunes producing chocolate candy, as well as cocoa powder for beverages. Van Houten still is known for their product.
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I salute the first Mayan who decided to climb a forty foot tree, perhaps out of curiosity to find a pea, and instead discovered a universal obsession. And I want to leave it in your hands to choose your chocolate of choice today...no recipes...just indulgence. Go ahead, melt some chocolate, lick a spoon..or pop a truffle, serve some double chocolate chip ice cream...have a slice of devil's food cake...just do it, do it, do it...I'm with you all the way...
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Hi Mom !

TO LITTLE MOTHERS DREAMING AND
BIG MOTHERS ALREADY THERE, HAVE
A LOVELY DAY OF CELEBRATION! C'MON,
HOLD HANDS AND GET SMOOCHY...
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Last year, the gift, a box of candy, beribboned
like a Maypole, started to speak to me. The
candy said, "I belong to the category of bliss.
Special grouping: chocolate. Now your small
desires can be indulged".
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And they were.
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This year, a ripe peach would be just fine !!
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Also, my first year without my Mom...but we'll be waving
at each other. Wasn't it an interesting life we had together?
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XXXXXXXXHAPPY MOTHER'S DAY