S'mores (Karen's recipes)

As dusk falls in the forest,

Daddy is busy chopping.

Carefully the sticks are laid out

resembling some prehistoric hut.

The match is struck and set inside,

instant inferno as the pine needles ignite

and the structure is engulfed.

"Now, mommy, now Mommy???" the three children plead

as they sit in their camp chairs

holding their roasting sticks.

Their angelic faces are beaming in the flickering firelight.

"Yes" she says

then places that soft white marshmallow on their sticks.

"You want it nice and golden brown" are the instructions.

"Don't put it directly in the flame" she warns as the flame jumps on the oldest one's mallow.

"Put it out"......."blow on it"......"not in your sisters hair".."watch out!"

The hot gooey mess is placed on a graham cracker,

then chocolate and another graham cracker are placed on top.

When the process is repeated twice,

quiet consumes the camp

except for the sounds of the crackling fire

and the occasional call of the loon,

and three children munching and enjoying

a snack before bed in the great outdoors.

(I always keep a container of wet wipes handy when we do this, you can just imagine the sticky little faces and hands)

(this is a spin off of yesterdays entry....warmer weather is coming)