We think you’re great
So we left you a plate.
Fill it up with a treat
This afternoon when you meet.
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Please bring your plate
to the faculty meeting
and enjoy snacks
compliments of the PTSA.
Liz and I have been in cahoots organizing monthly mailbox treats for the teachers. For December we planned a sweet and savory afterschool snack, thinking they’d appreciate a pick-me-up right before Christmas break. We were right!
We planted invitations in their mailboxes this morning and hoped they would remember to bring their plates to the meeting.
Liz did not disappoint in the cookie department. I asked her to make a batch of cookies but she made three: sugar cookies, peanut butter kisses and monster cookies.
For those preferring something savory, we had cheese and crackers, mixed nuts and clementines.
I made Uncle Bob’s Dessert, a recipe I have had in my recipe binder since high school but which I just tried for the first time last week. Uncle Bob is my dear friend Mary’s uncle and I remember when she gave it to me oh, some 30 years ago!
Here is Uncle Bob’s Dessert aka Chocolate Éclair Dessert.
1 box graham crackers
2 small boxes French vanilla instant pudding
3 1/2 cups cold milk
1 package (9 ounce) cool whip, defrosted
3 tablespoons butter
2 squares unsweetened chocolate
2 1/2 tablespoons white corn syrup, like Karo
1 teaspoon vanilla
3 tablespoons milk
1 1/2 C sifted powdered sugar
Butter a 9×13 pan and line the bottom with graham crackers broken in halves.
Combine pudding and milk and mix until thick.
Fold in the cool whip.
Pour half of the pudding mixture over crackers.
Add a layer of crackers, the rest of the pudding and top with final layer of graham crackers.
Meanwhile make the glaze:
Melt the butter and unsweetened chocolate in a pan.
Stir in the white corn syrup, vanilla and milk.
Add in the sifted powdered sugar and mix well.
Pour over the top of the graham crackers and chill overnight.
A sweet note about Uncle Bob—he was Mary’s mother’s brother and a retired lieutenant commander in the Navy. He left home when he was 16 and lied about his age to enlist. He fought in Korea and Vietnam and somehow was promoted from enlisted to officer. An amazing man, he passed away in 1988.
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I say it all the time when I speak at the PTSA meetings but I’ll say it again. The teachers really do just love and appreciate any gesture of warmth and appreciation. It makes it ever so much fun to do this for them.
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