It dawned on me about 3 weeks ago that I have never used yeast in my entire life, and for the first time in all my 28 years of living, that saddened me! Of course it made perfect sense because I hate to bake & cook, (because it makes a GINORMOUS mess), and my whole reason for living is to clean up messes, so I was rarely found in the kitchen. But, after a long and serious talk with God one day, I asked him for the tiniest desire ( I mean tiny) to try this thing the world calls cooking. I even asked my Mom to pray for me because I was on the brink of a huge life adjustment if God really did answer my plea! Me, cooking??? NO way, it just couldn't be done! Could it? I was still in shock I was even talking about the subject, let alone beginning to thumb through my cook books late at night. After a few VERY long weeks I, Emily, have begun to cook and bake using foreign recipe's I've never seen before in my life. I am even reading the cooking magazines in the check out lines, and I am even contemplating going to our church recipe exchange tomorrow! What is happening to me??? I bought a kitchen aid, which I love (a red one!) and I have made Cinnamon rolls (that turned out BEAUTIFULLY YUMMY!!!), cheesecake squares, this horribly sad looking marionberry pie, and 5 other dinner items!!! I'm still not enjoying the whole process and I still can't believe the mess it makes, but I am proud to say that I'll be making bread next! This may not sound like a big thing, but let me reassure you, this is HUGE in "Emily land," this just never happens! So, here is a picture of my first pie ever made. It was a horrible experience and the dough would not stop crumbling! Seriously, I was almost crying! I had envisioned a beautiful criss -cross top looking thing, but I couldn't even roll out the stupid stuff out. So, this is the end result... pretty pathetic.
Thursday, June 19, 2008
I'm trying this new thing called cooking & baking...
It dawned on me about 3 weeks ago that I have never used yeast in my entire life, and for the first time in all my 28 years of living, that saddened me! Of course it made perfect sense because I hate to bake & cook, (because it makes a GINORMOUS mess), and my whole reason for living is to clean up messes, so I was rarely found in the kitchen. But, after a long and serious talk with God one day, I asked him for the tiniest desire ( I mean tiny) to try this thing the world calls cooking. I even asked my Mom to pray for me because I was on the brink of a huge life adjustment if God really did answer my plea! Me, cooking??? NO way, it just couldn't be done! Could it? I was still in shock I was even talking about the subject, let alone beginning to thumb through my cook books late at night. After a few VERY long weeks I, Emily, have begun to cook and bake using foreign recipe's I've never seen before in my life. I am even reading the cooking magazines in the check out lines, and I am even contemplating going to our church recipe exchange tomorrow! What is happening to me??? I bought a kitchen aid, which I love (a red one!) and I have made Cinnamon rolls (that turned out BEAUTIFULLY YUMMY!!!), cheesecake squares, this horribly sad looking marionberry pie, and 5 other dinner items!!! I'm still not enjoying the whole process and I still can't believe the mess it makes, but I am proud to say that I'll be making bread next! This may not sound like a big thing, but let me reassure you, this is HUGE in "Emily land," this just never happens! So, here is a picture of my first pie ever made. It was a horrible experience and the dough would not stop crumbling! Seriously, I was almost crying! I had envisioned a beautiful criss -cross top looking thing, but I couldn't even roll out the stupid stuff out. So, this is the end result... pretty pathetic.
I LOVE it!! And I hope you do come to recipe exchange tomorrow, even if you don't bring anything. I'm all about not making big messes when cooking, but it still happens...
ReplyDeleteI think your pie is absolutely beautiful...and yummy looking too!
ReplyDeleteThat pie looks great. I don't mind cooking, but I've never made a pie! Great job. By the way, when I cook I keep the dishwasher open and try to put things away as I go. For instance, when I turn my kitchen aid on to mix, I hurry and put away all of the ingredients I just used while it's mixing. It makes a difference! Good luck!
ReplyDeleteWow, ggod for you!
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