tapioca
i started off mothers day good making a full menu breakfast complete with home fries, biscuits, bacon, eggs and grits. but then i got side-tracked trying to install a truck bed cover on my honda. this task i assured c would take 30 minutes. she was certain it would take 3 hours and a trip to the store. well… it took probably more than 3 hours and a trip to the store but it should have taken 30 minutes. but i ran into a few snags along the way… anyway, i admitted she was right, and then i picked up liquid ginger take-out for dinner, which was good as usual. but there is no dessert in the house and i wanted to end mother’s day with a treat and make some dessert but time was short and butter was scarce. “what kind if decent dessert can you make without butter anyway?” i wondered out loud… then i asked ,” do we have the stuff to make fudge?” c laughed and said we needed a lot of butter… “well, i just want to make you something baby,” was my response. she laughed again, because she doesn’t even care about fudge… “allright, make tapioca,” she said, knowing that i really just wanted to make myself a dessert. then she got on the phone and was walking outside. i was jonesin’ for chocolate and searching the back off the pantry for jello pudding or something! what do i see, but a half used box of tapioca. i followed the instructions on the box, figuring that if my wife liked it – it must be good. then, i noticed that it was something you put in fruit pies as a thickener, and saw a photo of a parfait on the front of the box. i found a bag of frozen mixed berries, heated them up quickly, and layered berries and tapioca and a touch of honey in her stemmed glass and canned whipped cream, berries and tapioca in mine. she shared with cada and me with silas. that tapioca and fruit was the bomb i tell you. warm tapioca pearls with blueberries, strawberries, and raspberries… we were pounding it. i never would have guessed tapioca would have been such a good dessert choice. but you know what they say about what is behind every good man….
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