I am mostly grouchy this week. Therefore I have not much to say, except to expound upon the soothing power of sugar. Yesterday at exactly 7:16 pm, I realized what I was craving. I had been thinking upon this subject for quite sometime, having not been able to lay my finger upon what it was my body needed. Then, it struck me- carrot cake. No I was not struck by a carrot cake, although that would have been yummy. I realized my life would not be complete unless I had a huge carrot cake with pineapple and coconut and cream cheese frosting sitting in front of me screaming "EAT ME!" Of course this had to be homemade carrot cake. I think I surely must burn more calories if I cook my sugar before I eat it.
Unfortunately I had no pineapple. Or cream cheese. I could have improvised and made a simple carrot cake. But dammit, I wanted pineapple in my carrot cake. Lucky for me I have a husband who likes to make trips to the store for me. What a guy. By 10:30 I had carrot cake, completed and frosted. I had carrot cake for breakfast this morning. And lunch. And every snack in between.
Is it any wonder I am grouchy? By dinner time all I wanted was a salad.
Anyway, one of these days I WILL start to exercise again.
2 comments:
Ahh--I love my sugar as much as you do, possibly more, but unlike you, I cannot stand food in my cake.
Carrot cake? What a waste of good cream cheese! or pineapple, for that matter.
CARROTS in CAKE? I love carrots well enough and lord knows i live for cake, but CARROTS in my CAKE? eeeyuck. Leave it for the bunnies.
I know you to be a tolerably good baker--find that stashed bag of sugar, grab the butter out of the freezer, sift the white flour, add the vanilla and make use of that huge collection of cookie cutters i know you possess. Treat those boys to sugar cookies!
It is, you know, Christmas and it comes but once a year. And as you know, cookies are the reason for the season.
(can you send me that recipe?--the one for cookies, NOT the "cake.")
I am with Nancy when it comes to food. I like my sweets sweet and my not sweets not sweet. Give me a carrot or give me cake! Don't give them to me together.
Except I did kind of like those carrot cookies your mom used to make. I haven't had those in a long time.
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