speed up the tempo and i'll go faster
i seemed to have forgotten what happens every time i try to bake something--disaster.
although my energy has been completely zapped and every muscle on my body is sore, i felt good enough to go out and buy groceries today. the motivation was carrot cake with berry cream "cheese" frosting. so i went out and bought all of the food items i needed for this project plus a couple of others, came home, immediately start the process because it's almost like i'm excited or something. so yeah i forgot to get ginger, but no big deal because i can just substitute with ground, dry ginger. and then as i'm standing there waiting to be able to mix the dry and wet ingredients together i realize the oven is taking a long time to preheat and when i check the temperature it's only at 200 degrees. well, there's not much i can do with a broken oven, might as well just try to bake this fucker anyway. oh what's that? no cake pan size specification and the one i've already begun pouring the cake mixture in is way too big? great. oh well, i'll just shove it all up to one side, that works, right?
then the frosting. silken tofu...baaaaaaaaaarf. i had some though and it called for it so i used it. i'm not sure if they've tasted this recipe before because silken tofu is too sick to have almost all on it's own that way. but yeah, so i put in my raspberries that aren't even organic and i paid 3 dollars for and cashews (also not cheap) and sweetner. well it didn't taste very sweet after it was all mixed together. still tasted like shit (silken tofu), so i thought i'd add more sweetner, but liquid sweetner and all i have is molasses. bad idea, of course, but i think i knew that and just laughed at myself while i did it because i knew this entire project was fucked. yup. piece of cake!
the thing that sucks the most is that i would be content if i could just bake something else. i'm still in the mood, but the fucking oven isn't working. i could make oatmeal raisin cookies or apple crumble. both of those sound delicious. i also have been craving pizza for days now but...no oven. i bought yams and sweet potatoes and bell peppers and onions and tofu to roast all together (my favorite wintery food) but...no oven.
and now my stomach hurts. great.
mmmm...life.
although my energy has been completely zapped and every muscle on my body is sore, i felt good enough to go out and buy groceries today. the motivation was carrot cake with berry cream "cheese" frosting. so i went out and bought all of the food items i needed for this project plus a couple of others, came home, immediately start the process because it's almost like i'm excited or something. so yeah i forgot to get ginger, but no big deal because i can just substitute with ground, dry ginger. and then as i'm standing there waiting to be able to mix the dry and wet ingredients together i realize the oven is taking a long time to preheat and when i check the temperature it's only at 200 degrees. well, there's not much i can do with a broken oven, might as well just try to bake this fucker anyway. oh what's that? no cake pan size specification and the one i've already begun pouring the cake mixture in is way too big? great. oh well, i'll just shove it all up to one side, that works, right?
then the frosting. silken tofu...baaaaaaaaaarf. i had some though and it called for it so i used it. i'm not sure if they've tasted this recipe before because silken tofu is too sick to have almost all on it's own that way. but yeah, so i put in my raspberries that aren't even organic and i paid 3 dollars for and cashews (also not cheap) and sweetner. well it didn't taste very sweet after it was all mixed together. still tasted like shit (silken tofu), so i thought i'd add more sweetner, but liquid sweetner and all i have is molasses. bad idea, of course, but i think i knew that and just laughed at myself while i did it because i knew this entire project was fucked. yup. piece of cake!
the thing that sucks the most is that i would be content if i could just bake something else. i'm still in the mood, but the fucking oven isn't working. i could make oatmeal raisin cookies or apple crumble. both of those sound delicious. i also have been craving pizza for days now but...no oven. i bought yams and sweet potatoes and bell peppers and onions and tofu to roast all together (my favorite wintery food) but...no oven.
and now my stomach hurts. great.
mmmm...life.