As I said, baking is therapy

[wiseheart]

So, after emptying the last shelf of the unsteady book cabinet (and climbing onto a ladder in the process, which is a nightmare for me) and a food run in steadily falling rain, I baked this today:



Or rather another cherry cake with chocolate drops exactly like this one. With the only difference being the flaked almonds on top of today's cake. It's a quick and easy bake, with excellent results. Mum and I agreed that after all the excitement of the recent days we deserved to indulge ourselves a bit.

Other than that, I talked to two other retired colleagues on the phone, which was nice. As usual, today a massive GBBO marathon is planned. Thank God for baking shows. What else would I watch on the telly otherwise?

In unrelated yet unhappy news: it's rained all day and the balcony is leaking again. *sigh*

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I love cherry cake, but I won´t do another one as long as hubby won´t bring frozen cherries from Metro market. We used to buy frozen ones in Germany, but here they don´t have it in popular shops. Daughter-in-law number two gave me a lecture of all those dangerous ingredients which went into the jar together with the cherries. And since I bake the cake when family number two is on visit I will have to bite the bullet and purchase the frozen ones. :((

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I usually buy them in the jar — so far the dangerous ingredients haven't harmed either me or Mum... or any visitors who happily gobbled up my baked goods. This time they were frozen cherries, though; my friend Evie has cherry trees and gifted upon us a whole bucket of cherries last summer — at least three or four kilos, which would have cost me an arm, had I wanted to buy them in the supermarket. Since we couldn't eat them all at once, I froze two or three boxes of them for later use. Today I opened one and we enjoyed the results very much. *g*

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I have survived my baking skills, too! That´s what I tried to tell her. But you never know with pregnant women...

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Young people in general tend to believe that we're all idiots because we don't follow their fairly hare-brained dietary requirements. I don't care for paleo diet or keto diet or vegan diet or all that crap. Grandma cooked whatever foodstuff were available at any given time — and in my childhood in Transylvania that was rather poor and one-sided indeed — but she made it all taste delicious and we grew up just fine. And she lived 96 years and would have seen her 100th birthday, had she not fallen and broken her hip, so I don't think that the food I eat would kill me... unless I manage to swallow it into my windpipe and suffocate.

Forgot to add: I find paleo diet particularly ridiculous, since they offer cakes and chocolate and all that. I seriously doubt that Homo Erectus or Ausralopithecus or any other proto-humanoids had cake or chocolate. So, why don't these paleo reformists eat raw meat instead?

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The young ones will learn, Covid will teach them! Sorry about your grandma! My gramp jumped out of my uncle´s car, because he was so angry at him, and broke his thigh. He died two weeks later because of bacterial infection. He was 99 then.

[meathiel]

Hmmm ... cake ... during the week? Scrumptious! ;-)

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

We have cake whenever I'm in need of baking therapy. *g*

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

I meant to sympathise over the book case — but realise I forgot to post it. I do hope you can get it sorted out soon.

In the meantime, cherry cake is a comfort for all things.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Loose book-case, leaking balcony and Mum's condition... our lives are really full of joy at the moment. *sigh*
So yeah, cherry cake was a necessity.

[elwenlj.livejournal.com]

Oh dear, your balcony. I hope that one day you find a cure for that. I like the sound of your cake, but would probably eat the entire thing in two days.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I don't think you'd manage the cake in two days, but I'd love to make you one if only we got the chance to meet in person.