1. the smell of baking (followed by eating whatever it is) 2. a beautiful day (sunny, blue skies, mild temp, slight breeze) 3. visiting my friends 4. a great book 5. a good writing day 6. listening to music 7. cooking for people I love 8. driving up the coast with the windows open and my radio blasting 9. long, chatty, catch-up phone conversations 10. my niece
1. I had a friend who worked at a bakery and they didn't like eating whatever they made so much as making it. Do you think this is generally true? 2. was tempted to roll my eyes-- you're in California! When do you guys not have a gorgeous day? 7. Which do you like better, cooking or baking? I'm okay at cooking, but I'm terrible at baking. chocolate chip cookies have never been so rock hard. as for brownies, a friend of mine roped me into baking brownies for the entire graduating class in high school. suffice to say I hated brownies after that. 9. I never know how to hang up. 10. She's as cute as a button.
1. I think most food workers who deal with the same thing all day long start to get a bit sick of it. 2. Hey! We get rain in the winter. And then the world ends because no one in LA knows how to drive when the roads are wet. 7. I like cooking better because you don't need to be so precise. It's easier to screw up baking. That said, I like making cookies and pies. Not so much with cakes and such, though mostly that's because the oven in my apartment is uneven and it's hard to judge when things are done. 10. Thank you. :) That calls for her icon.
2. Pssh. Rain. We're about to hit with a hurricane. This Earl business is kind of exciting, kind of "damn, there goes Labor Day Weekend" 7. That's interesting because my friend said that baking gives more leeway, not less. She also said she has a good feel for the ingredients, what she can substitute and what she can't. It sounded like it was kind of soothing thing for her, being able to bake something and share it with her roommates the next hour.
7. Well, you can definitely substitute ingredients in baking, like using different sorts of flours or things like applesauce to cut down on sugar and shortening. But there's still a certain chemistry to it so the proportions need to be right. Otherwise you get cakes that sink or never fluff up or batter that tastes soapy (too much baking powder), etc. Regular cooking (except maybe very fancy dishes) is a little more forgiving. Plus a lot of times you can taste as you go. :)
2. a beautiful day (sunny, blue skies, mild temp, slight breeze)
3. visiting my friends
4. a great book
5. a good writing day
6. listening to music
7. cooking for people I love
8. driving up the coast with the windows open and my radio blasting
9. long, chatty, catch-up phone conversations
10. my niece
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2. was tempted to roll my eyes-- you're in California! When do you guys not have a gorgeous day?
7. Which do you like better, cooking or baking? I'm okay at cooking, but I'm terrible at baking. chocolate chip cookies have never been so rock hard. as for brownies, a friend of mine roped me into baking brownies for the entire graduating class in high school. suffice to say I hated brownies after that.
9. I never know how to hang up.
10. She's as cute as a button.
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2. Hey! We get rain in the winter. And then the world ends because no one in LA knows how to drive when the roads are wet.
7. I like cooking better because you don't need to be so precise. It's easier to screw up baking. That said, I like making cookies and pies. Not so much with cakes and such, though mostly that's because the oven in my apartment is uneven and it's hard to judge when things are done.
10. Thank you. :) That calls for her icon.
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7. That's interesting because my friend said that baking gives more leeway, not less. She also said she has a good feel for the ingredients, what she can substitute and what she can't. It sounded like it was kind of soothing thing for her, being able to bake something and share it with her roommates the next hour.
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and what you said makes sense. I've never been much of a baker, so I've learned something!
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