Saturday, October 24th, 2009
Over the past few months I have taken to baking quite a bit. Not really anything in particular. Most of my treats have been made from some sort of box infused with a special zinger that I just throw in there for fun.
Baking out of a box can be boring so I like to throw random ingredients into whatever it is I am making. Like the other night I had a box of yellow Lowe’s Foods cake mix in my cabinet and I felt the urge to bake some XL cupcakes…so I did! I did a few plain, then some with blueberries, some with banana slices and some with chocolate chips. May I note that the boys at work, particularly Jesse, love it when I go on a baking spurt. And I made the off side comment that if one day I am a stay at home mom I would totally open my own bakery.
Baking is therapeutic for me most of the time…unless I’m cooking for a bunch of people I like to experiment with my foods. Jennie Scoggins gave me this recipe for Sweet Potato biscuits, which I’m going to try making with Pumpkin instead.
So now, I’m looking for a few different home grown recipes for bread. In particular the kind I can bake as loafs. White, wheat, pumpernickel, give me what you’ve got. If your grandma’s mother had some notes scribbled on a piece of paper with ingredients that look relatively close to bread, give it to me! I want to try it. Even if I have to bake with lard, I’ll try!
xoxo
Wednesday, October 14th, 2009
I was just looking up the word woe on my mac dictionary app. and under the definition of the word woe was the line “they had a complicated tale of woe.” I found it rather amusing and decided that in lieu of titling this post “winter woes” the above would suffice.
Here we are, it’s October 14th and it has suddenly become winter! I must say that the weather has been teetering on the verge of summer for the past few weeks and now it feels like winter has arrived. I’m some what torn, honestly. I like the fall. I like the smells of fall, the look of fall, the taste of fall. It’s nice. And today felt like a typical winter day in NC: rainy and cold. Not freezing, because it never really freezes around here until spring (ironic right?). Then I looked at the 5 day forecast and what,
pray-tell to my eyes behold?
It’s going to be this way all flipping week! Except for Friday, the day I have to be inside for 9 hours it will be decent outside and I will envy all those who get Friday’s off at my office. What a bummer!
But on a positive note, I will assisting one of our volunteer’s in a shoot for the 10 year anniversary of PC3 on Friday and will have some sweet things to post afterward!
Winter and I are a twisted tale of delightful woe!
Sunday, October 11th, 2009
Well some of you may have figured out that you couldn’t comment on any of my posts…well my wonderful friend Jesse Bond has now fixed that glitch
commenting my now begin 
