If only I had an excuse to buy this..

Yesterday I hiked to the supermarket, across vast expanses of ice, to buy yeast. I had the strongest desire to bake bread even though I had never baked with yeast before. I figured if I was stuck inside for most of the day I might as well bake.

I have a wonderful baking cookbook by Abigail Dodge called The Weekend Baker. In the book there is a ( Read more... )

This is for all you Hitchhiker's fans out there:

In an odd baking coincidence I have managed not once, but twice this week, to bake exactly 42 cookies. And I promise I didn't even try.

This morning I woke early to go out and shovel. There wasn't as much snow as I had expected and, at the time, I thought all the surrounding school districts were over-reacting by closing. I changed my mind when I drove to work a few hours later. My regular 8 mile drive took me 40 minutes. And I narrowly avoided an accident (caused by a large ( Read more... )

So my "Random Fridays" lasted all of two weeks before I missed a week. That's what I get for trying to do something regular/interesting/out of character. I was all over the library on Friday, with no break to even attempt a post. I'm sure I had plenty of random thoughts, they just didn't make their way online. Oh well. There are plenty more ( Read more... )

Yesterday was my day off. Scott had the day off as well, so we slept in and then had oatmeal cinnamon pancakes for breakfast (a house specialty).

After some routine errands in the morning (during which I started A Brief Chapter in My Impossible Life by Dana Reinhardt) I spent the afternoon baking. I made the spicy chocolate cookies posted by fasterthanlight, ( Read more... )

Being really excited to not be at work makes everything seem fabulous!

Last night when I got home from work I promptly began to make cupcakes. Scott's been craving cupcakes for quite awhile now and I had had one of those weeks. In my book, those are two darn-good reasons to make cupcakes! I wanted to be somewhat healthy, though, so I made the ( Read more... )