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Rodalena Recipes: Summer Songs and Afternoon Delight

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Summer has its own sound track, headlined, of course by Ella’s “Summertime.” That’s The Summer Song, dang it, the American Anthem of Summer.

"Well, you get down the fiddle and you get down the bow,  Kick off your shoes and throw 'em in the floor..." -Alabama

“Well, you get down the fiddle and you get down the bow,
Kick off your shoes and throw ‘em in the floor…”
-Alabama

But, there’s others. Summer songs, for me, are porch songs, listened to and sung along with at twilight while drinking iced tea barefoot and wearing old sundresses. They’re campfire songs of simplicity and contentment, songs with tight harmonies and simple rhythms, sung after the supper dishes are done and the leftovers put away. Summer songs are gentle tunes, easily remembered. Summer songs are the songs that cause your feet to tap unconsciously, songs that one dances to with a child:

Don’t Need Much to Be Happy-Mary Chapin Carpenter

They are songs of songs of lazy poetry that you’re still mulling over tomorrow, songs of deceptive depth and poetic genius that leave you sitting quietly, thinking as fireflies dance. They’re songs of contentment and grace and beauty. Summer songs are honest songs, mostly acoustic, and never synthesized. The music of summer is spiritual. It’s hidden hymns almost never heard in a church:

One Voice-The Wailin’ Jennys

The Ballad of Love and Hate-The Avett Brothers

Summer music is also loose and sweaty and loud. It’s sexy and fun. Often it’s pure perfect instrumentation, other times, it’s homemade harmonies and fiddles and plays on words. It’s got hound dogs in the background singing along and kids laughing.

Lil Jack Slade-The Dixie Chicks

Such songs call to mind open roads, sweet cool treats, and romance. Summer music is the timeless music of life, and love, and grace. Summer music is deceptively easy, yet cool and refreshing, and like Afternoon Delight, once you’ve had it, you just want more. Enjoy:

Afternoon Delight

For the crust:

1 cup all-purpose unbleached flour
1 stick butter, slightly softened and cut up
1/2 cup chopped pecans

Cut together and spread in bottom of a 9×13 pan. Bake at 350 for fifteen minutes, or until crust is golden brown. Cool completely.

The simple beginning of something really good...

The simple beginning of something really good…

For Cream Cheese Layer:

1 cup powdered sugar
1 small container Cool Whip
8 oz. cream cheese

Mix well, and spread on cooled crust.

For the pistachio layer:

2 packages instant pistachio pudding
3 cups milk

Pan full of yum

Pan full of yum

Whisk until thickened, and spread on top of cream cheese layer. Top with more Cool Whip, and garnish with chopped pecans. Refrigerate at least four hours, and serve it cold to someone you love on a hot summer night.

Go ahead: use your fingers.

Go ahead: use your fingers.

Afternoon Delight-Starland Vocal Band

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