Every week i bake.

I meal plan and i bake. I mean i cook and plan our meals but i MUST bake. Cakes, muffins, biscuits, slices, healthy stuff, wickedly sinfull stuff, stuff just to use up fruits and things that are over ripe or close to expiry. I can certainly do without the added effort and calories but its so nice to have that gorgeous aroma of bread, pastry, cake, biscuits wafting through the house and collecting in little windowless pockets like the stair-well or the back bedroom.

I love being able to pick up a strawberry muffin on the way to my desk or grab a handfull of peanut butter cookeies when i sit down to watch a TV show. Even better when someone drops in and theres a fresh slice of banana cake ready to accompany a hot cup of tea. When we first moved into this house in July. I was a crazy baker. I didnt realise it then, but i was baking to get that comforting homely smell into the house and sweep away the aroma of new carpet and paint.

I once stumbled into Crabtree & Evelyn and found a room spray that was named “Baked Goods” or something to that effect, i gave the sample a small spritz and was assulted with the aroma of a freshly baked apricot danish. It smelled warm and sweet and very much like pastry! Of course i put it down and backed away because whats the point of having a house smelling of delicious patisserie delights when there is actually none to offer! What a tease!

So then i guess baking is the one thing i can do without… but choose not to!

…the little hungry mice will invade the pantry and organise lunch for themselves.

Lunch, by the way, consists of, marshmallows, choc cream filled biscuits, Marie biscuits and a failed attempt to get into a packet of nougat! I was outside doing some gardening, weeding and re-planting the poor Agave that the dogs have dug up 3 times now!

Im constantly trying to provide them with healthy food for their 3 standard meals and i do stock biscuits because 50% of my diet consists of them everyone deserves the occasional treat. And becuase im buggered from all the digging and uprooting… they can just have the damn biscuits! I know in about 40mins there will be the inevitable sugar rush so im hoping the sun will still be out long enough to take them for a walk to burn it off.

I guess i could compensate by making them have lentils for dinner!

ETA: i added a LOL cat to the begining for the Hubby who said i must post a pic before the ‘read more’ link… happy now?!