Did You Ever Love Me? by Rithvik Singh is a tender contemporary poetry collection about love, heartbreak, longing, self worth and learning to let go. Its greatest strength is emotional accessibility: Singh writes directly to readers who feel intensely and care deeply. The collection offers comfort without pretending heartbreak is simple, though its simplicity may occasionally feel familiar to seasoned poetry readers. Did you Ever Love Me? Have you ever loved someone so completely that, after they left, you were left wondering whether they had ever understood what they had been given? Not merely whether they loved you, but whether they ever noticed how much you loved them, how much patience you offered, how many small things you remembered, or how often you chose to stay when leaving might have been easier. There is a particular loneliness in that question because it rarely arrives at a dramatic moment. More often, it finds you while you are doing something completely ordinary. Yo...
Prep: 30 minutes
Bake: 20 minutes
Makes: 10 servings
Pastry
2/3 cups butter
2 cups flour
4-5tbsp water
Filling
250g cream cheese or hung yogurt (low-fat)
2 tsp lemon juice
2tbsp sugar
1 cup green-fleshed melon, sliced
1 cup orange –flashed melon, sliced (replace with green and orange fruits such as kiwi and peaches or apricots)
2tbsp apricot jam
1. Grease a 9-inch pie dish.
2. Cut butter into flour until it resembles small peas (do not mix).Sprinkle in water a tablespoon at a time .Gather pastry into ball. Shape into flattened rounds and roll out into small puris. Fit in 9-inch pie dish. Crimp edges. Chill for about 30 minutes.
3. Cover the pie dish with foil and bakes 20 minutes at 200°C.uncover and bake for another five minutes
4. Beat together cream cheese, lemon juice and sugar. Pour into baked pie crust. Decorate with fruit. Melt some apricot jam and pore over to glaze.
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