baking

Good morning!
Today will be a good day. My sister is back for the summer and I am so excited to run around LA with her. Huntington gardens, LACMA, Getty, oh the fun we will have. But with her in town my diet has slipped. And I have started baking. I love baking. It may be a continuation of my love of bread but I love it. I don't even have to eat it. I give most of my baked goods away. But making them gives me pleasure.

I have tried two different recipes for dough. I have never really made anything that required dough before so it's all new to me. I can't tell you how crazy the whole freeze then un freeze then freeze again thing makes me. Besides it taking hours and hours. The first recipe I tried was a cornmeal base for raspberry tarts. It worked well and corn is better then flour but it didn't have a lot of flavor to me. Others liked it just fine. Then I made peach hand pies. This was a much harder dough to work with and had a high butter content. Again not a lot of flavor in it's self. Everyone loved the pies though. Today I am going to use up the rest of the dough (currently in the fridge so it might be workable.) and makes something with chocolate and raspberries. My sister loves chocolate so I thought I would make her happy and use up the dough at the same time. A good idea I hope. I won't be working from a recipe as I have before so it may turn out a dud. I'll let you know.

A few days ago I had people over to my place. Now this may not seem like a huge deal to some. And they were only my sister and her friend is is almost like a sister to me. But it was a big deal to me. I don't have people over very often. Scratch that, I don't have people over at all. The last time I had guest was xmas morning and it was family for breakfast. Since then no one has come over. Mostly because I don't like where we live. I'm not happy here and not comfortable so I don't want others to see it and be uncomfortable too. But it was so nice to have people over. We watched movies and I made dinner. It wasn't as bad as I had thought it would be. Given it was just family who don't bat an eyelash at anything I do now. I may have my sister over more often.