I am normally quite the laid back person. Even when I get into an argument with someone I don’t raise my voice. When I taught school I never yelled at the kids. In fact, the opposite, being completely quiet seemed to scare the crap out of them more than a stern cut it out ever could. But I have this one person. This one person that gets on my very last nerve (no, not my husband :P) that causes me to blow up and yell. I always feel bad after I do it, but It really seems like it is the only way that I ever truly get my point across to him. For example he asked to do something (I wont go into specifics) and I said no. He kept re-asking in about 15 different ways. All 15 times I told him no. Just when I thought he had got the point he basically went behind my back . So I blew up at him. The funny thing is he is a nice guy. He just doesn’t seem to get it. He’s like a salesman that just wont give up. Which after awhile you want to say, if you were the last person selling water on this … [Read more...]
End piece….
I am an end piece kind of girl. It’s the perfect piece. Three out of the four sides are covered in frosting. One day I want to make a cake that has frosting on the bottom as well. :D But for now I must settle with the end piece. I’ve been known to wrestle a kid to the ground (yes, as an adult...hangs head in shame) to get the end piece. Only exception being if it’s their birthday cake...then I’m nice...that time. I was the one who always went for the large and gaudy frosting rose that topped the cake as well. I love me some frosting. And in all of the frosting world, cream cheese frosting is what makes me...hmmm, no comment. ;) Many joke that you could put cream cheese frosting on top of cardboard and they would eat it. I’m not sure I’d go that far, but truth be told, that circumstance has never come up , so I can’t really say. :) The best thing ever about my mom’s carrot cake was the cream cheese frosting. It was always piled high, and being the awesome mom … [Read more...]
Bakers curse…
Glad to see so many of you agreed with me in the last post, and if you didn't that’s cool too. :) But one thing several people said, and I agree, is that sometimes being a good baker is a curse. You can’t ever just bring store bought cookies to a party and be done with it because you had a busy day. People look in horror at you when you do that. It’s perfectly fine that they always pick up the Albertson’s fruit platter, but God-forbid if you slack out. And it’s not even just that it can’t be store bought. I have people actually get disappointed when I “just” bring cookies or brownies. “I was hoping for something from your blog”. Well, those cookies or brownies were probably on the blog. Somewhere in these people’s minds the ability to bake means you also have the time to bake, which as you know is well, NOT THE CASE! Recently I’ve been strolling though the beginning of this here blog. Most of my current readers have really only been with me over the last two … [Read more...]
Baker superiority complex…
Well, I haven’t gotten much hate mail in awhile so clearly I am being too politically correct as of late. So to rectify that, I shall bring up a topic that my friends and I were discussing the other day. We were watching Top Chef and they all had to make a pie. The immense fear that was in the eyes of the contestants was too funny to me. It’s the fear that they all seem to get when they tell them they have to make a dessert. Now don’t get me started on the whole you know they do a dessert every season just memorize a recipe thing that I go off on every season, that was not the discussion my friends and I got into. The discussion topic was this….is it better to be a great cook or a great baker? So I think we can all figure out where I stand on this one, but here is why...most people who can bake seem to be okay in the cooking department as well. But I have met way too many a chef who is an awesome cook but can’t bake or make desserts to save their life (there are … [Read more...]
