So, everyone who knows me  in real life knows I have these amazingly vivid dreams.  Sometimes when I wake up I have trouble figuring out what is real and what is not.  I think I have reality issues anyway.

But, some of my best recipes have been created from a dream that I was eating something.  My dream last night was amazing.

Apparently I was staying at a small, country inn to help create a menu.  The room where I was staying was incredible with fresh cut bourbon roses on the antique dresser, a beautiful antique bed and embroidered duvet.  Much like my own bedroom, everything was decorated with roses.  The windows were small panes of glass and they opened outward, and I would guess by the color of the light that it was June.

The inns kitchen was vintage but was a dream, with double wall ovens, and a a wood burning oven in the outdoor kitchen which was flanked by the kitchen garden.  There was a huge  commercial stove, and counter space everywhere, yet it still looked like an old and charming kitchen; with a copper apron sink, butcher block counters, and a pave stone floor.  I would love to be able to replicate it.

All of that was very nice, but why am I telling you about it?

Well the main part of the dream was cookies.  Yep…cookies.  As I was walking through the meadow a man came up to me and handed me a plate of lemon cookies like I have never had before.  They were almost like macaroons with lemon curd and white chocolate..the cookie simply crumbled away and melted in your mouth leaving the tangy richness of the lemon curd behind.

The weirdest thing was that the guy was not the dark, brooding, romantic Heathcliffe sort that I would expect to find in my dream…he was very average, middle aged and not particularly attractive..but he made the most seductive cookies I have ever experienced.

So, guess what I will be doing over the next few days?  No! I am married…I won’t be looking for the guy..I will be trying to come up with the recipe for those darn cookies!

I’ll post it when I get it.  And if you happen to see a plain, middle aged man with a plate of lemon cookies? Get the recipe!

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