Last weekend I started baking again.� I made an enormous batch of whole wheat bread dough, enough for four loaves, but forgot I only have two bread pans.� Luckily, I was able to borrow two more from my neighbor.� I returned the bread pans that day with a loaf still warm from the oven.� I recommend this technique to everyone because when I gave her the bread she turned around and gave me freshly canned tuna from her son’s latest fishing trip.� If you have never tasted freshly canned tuna, oh my, try to find a way to do it soon.� It tasted nothing like chicken of the sea.� In fact, all it needed was a sprinkle of salt and freshly squeezed lime juice before I tossed it into a delicious spinach salad for lunch.
On another note, Tristan and I are counting down the days until we can launch Besotted Brand.� (Soon, we promise!)� We will have a number of lovely things, not the least of which are proper labels.� There will be very fancy ones, yes, but we will also offer what we hope you will consider the perfect baked goods label.� Look at my poor label above.� It’s from a national craft store and not a good thing, if you catch my meaning. For me, a good baked goods label should offer enough space for someone with large, loopy writing (ahem) to write something as brief as “Whole Wheat Bread.”� Not everyone writes in a microscopic print, you know.� Some of us like to live large, Palmer Method style.� And, please, how frustrated was I when the label refused to stay down?� Any baked goods label worth its salt has to accommodate the lumps and bumps of a good kitchen outcome.� Wouldn’t you agree?
God willing, we will have something respectable up and running in time for all that holiday baking!
Mmm yum. I was on a huge baking spree when I was pregnant. It was weird. Now it’s gone, thanks god.
This makes me wish I was your neighbor.
yay! need the labels. i have big dreams of cookie swaps and lots of baking this winter. also knitting. will you have handmade labels for those type of items? still laughing at the “living large, Palmer Method style.” i hear it as a line from an episode of MTV Cribs. ok, a little batty at work already :)
I wish I was your neighbor too! I think it’s weird that I have suddenly developed a craving for tuna sandwiches at 9:30a.m….
me too. sigh.
Like the thought of Besotted Brand wasn’t exciting enough, now you add baking labels?! Perhaps this will be the year I actually bake treats and deliver them to my neighbors … instead of, you know, thinking it would be a grand idea …
Roni–Yes, I believe JayZ was the first well known hip hop artist to encourage a penmanship from the 1800s. It’s how he signs all those fat checks. :)
Miss B–that tuna was something else. The difference in taste and texture was shocking…and you always have food cravings! The difference between you and me is that you don’t follow every urge to eat that crosses your path! :)
Amy–With all the orange trees we have, I end up baking tons of orange cakes every year. I think I might enjoy it even more if I had some pretty labels to go with them!
Yum! That sounds so good!
Orange cake? ORANGE CAKE?!!!
You know, this summer I tried fresh halibut for the first time … some of which was tossed with buffalo sauce. Now everytime I see a bottle of the stuff my mouth waters, my eyes glaze, I start mubbling, “Mmmm… halibut … ” and then I drool a little bit.
So great. Now I’ll be struck with the same impediment when I see an orange. A once innocent fruit … packed with vitamin C and juicy goodness … has now become cake! :)
Amy, I guess this means I should mention the cinnamon sugar crumbly topping? ;)
Wow. Just Wow! I’m so impressed by you! I think the attention from Ohdeedoh has you steppin’ up your bloggin’ game ;)
And I second the sentiment of your other readers. I do wish I was your neighbor, both for the rad homes on your block & the potential for freshly baked bread or canned tuna. Yum!
Hah! :) Like I said in my Friday post, I just want to be as creative as I used to be (law school really zapped that all out of me) and get away from the computer. I have a tendency to read about life, rather than actually live it.
Believe it or not, I used to make homemade pasta, sauce, bread, cookies, ice cream (anything homemade, actually), upholster furniture, do crafts, pottery, photography, and on and on. Then once law school started I stopped, and didn’t do much after that other than read.
WHAT?!!!!! I’ll send you my address …
very impressive list of craftiness! it’s nice to get back to homemade stuff…that’s why i’m still fretting over halloween costumes (none yet!) still thinking i’m going to make something. can’t wait to see your new venture!