'Smores Dip

Well, this is an unusual blog for me.  I don't usually blog recipes -- I am not a bad cook, extraordinarily enough, since I did not make any effort to learn until relatively late in life, and eternally regret not taking my mother up on the offer to learn to make pie crust.  She was not a good cook, but she could make beautiful flaky piecrust every time and I long to go back in time and when she came out of our little kitchen and found me reading on the couch, I would jump eagerly up and say, "are you making pie, Mom?  Can you show me how?"  But we can't go back in time, and must try to learn to grab those opportunities when they come to us the first time.

Anyhoo, William found a photograph of this 'smores dip on Instagram and so we looked up how to make it (easy-peasy) and last night we had some friends over and we did, and it was very nice.  You take a cast iron skillet (or if you don't have that, a baking dish with a rim).  You put some butter in the pan and put it into a 450 degree oven, until the butter melts and greases the pan.  Then you put about a cup and half of chocolate chips in the bottom of the pan (make sure they cover the bottom of the pan evenly).  Then you take about 15 marshmallows, which you have cut in half, and arrange them on top of the chocolate chips.  Pop it back into the oven and bake for five minutes (keep watch over it!)  If the marshmallows aren't nicely golden at that point, put on the broiler very briefly (like 15 seconds -- keep watching it!)  Take it out of the oven and let it cool for about five minutes (the chocolate will be SUPER hot).  Then you use your graham crackers to dip into the soft gooey marshmallow/chocolate arrangement and it is better than smores around the campfire!  Really!