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Peppermint Meringue Kisses

The plan was to make Peppermint Meringue Kisses. The end step before putting the kisses in the 250° oven is to put the meringue mixture into a pastry bag and squirt the kisses onto the greased baking sheet.

Now, I was using a spatula to like scoop the meringue out of the copper bowl into the plastic bag with the decorating tip. My better half grabbed a spoon. I admit that the spoon was like a pretty good idea. More efficient, less messy, and like none of those drips I had to eat, which was the good part about the way I was doing it.

Stacey was having like a hard time with the pastry bag. I admit that I had put on the wrong tip, so I volunteered to change it to the one that would like make those cool swirly things. On her next try, she like squeezed a couple out. I wanted to do that job -- you know how it is when you're a little kid and how you like really want to like drive the car but your dad won't let you -- that's what it was like. She was doing this cool thing, and I was just standing there watching and I really wanted to do it; but then a small piece of pulverized peppermint got like, you know, stuck in the tip, which she like got out with a toothpick, one of the, you know, sharp ones.

Same exact thing happened the next try. Good thing, I'm thinkin' -- I told her I'd take over -- you know, like now I got to do the cool job. I saw Martha Stewart, you know, making the meringue things once before she like went to, you know, like shovel shit on that pig farm prison in West Virginia; and she said it was like, you know, easy to do, while she was squirting out the little kisses onto the greased baking sheet. She really, you know, yammered in that. you know, Martha Stewart kind of way to make sure the baking sheet was well-greased. It was like the only thing she like talked about, so, you know, the meringue things wouldn’t like stick. That was something how like she used to be talking the whole time she was doing something, like she could do it in her sleep, y'know. And, well, now, she's, you know, down in prison.

Back to what I was sayin' before. It was like real easy to use the pastry bag, mostly, you know, considering this was like my first time. It was pretty damn cool, I must say. You gotta admit that a pastry bag is like a pretty neat thing. But yaknow, it shouldn't explode. Not like that anyway. Not so peppermint meringue goes like all over your shirt and pants and bare feet and the floor. But those dogs, they do like their peppermint meringue.