Baking!
Categories: Cooking, Food & Drink, Travel
Marathon baking requires the proper footwear. So I put on my sneakers and started baking. On Sunday. It’s good that I wear my sneakers for this. I’m done now. I have slain many pounds of various sugars, flour and butter. And popcorn. For my next trick, I’ll go gift shopping. On second thought, can I just bake more? I really really really love marathon baking. It’s just totally fun. Being sick last week put me behind schedule, but I finished up tonight and everything’s all packed up ready for driving and shipping as the case may be. I have a couple tiny little burns on my fingers, and I did drop an entire cookie sheet of cookies (with the onset of tiny burn number 1), and I might have RSI in my shoulder from stirring so much boiling sugar…
But those minor incidents aside, I’ve had a very successful baking marathon! And I really have done very little else other than bake so far this week. Which wouldn’t be a problem if I hadn’t lost last week to a cold. Tomorrow I need to go do some strategic-strike gift shopping for family and wrap gifts. Friday, if all goes well with health and weather, I’ll leave for my traditional holiday road trip to the North with the hot little car. The Fop will join me Monday night in New Hampshire. Christmas in Maine then we’ll meander home again.
Monster Cat will be traumatized by our absence, I’m certain of it. He’s already terribly confused by me spending so much time in the kitchen. (Though he is comforted by cereal milk. Ahhh… to be a cat.)