If you know me at all, you know I like to bake.
Big understatement.
I LOVE to bake.
But I often find myself repeating the same or similar recipes. So to challenge myself a bit, I just joined this online community called the Daring Bakers. Don’t you love the name?
The idea is that at the beginning of the month you sign in and download the recipe for the month, and then can bake it any time during the month. On the 27th, all the members in the community post their photos of the recipe on their own blogs and link to it on the homepage…. 2000 versions of the same recipe!
It sounded fun and a way to try new recipes that I might not have got around to.
This month I downloaded the recipe when I got back from Denmark and have been waiting for a good moment to bake it. That moment was yesterday, and it went pretty well! But you’ll have to wait until 27th to find out what I made and see the pictures!
One clue, I did love that in a mostly American-member community, the first recipe I get to bake is a traditional British one, which most of the commenters from the States had not even heard of!
The worrying part is that this will only add to my monthly calorie intake. The answer? Make sure I bake on a night when I have four friends round for dinner! I had such a good evening eating and drinking and chatting and laughing.
I served up chicken and apple burgers with new potatoes and steamed veggies, and then the surprise dessert… complete with one candle to celebrate Christie’s brithday last week. And there is only a small portion of the surprise dessert left over: perfect for my Friday afternoon tea time!
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you are the most precious thing!
The Daring Bakers blogroll is how I found your blog in the first place so I look forward to seeing your reveal!
And that’s a good idea about having friends over to help eat whatever your bake; make a gathering out of it. I’ve been too busy to actually join Daring Bakers yet but I was thinking about it after my wedding and having people over to help eat seems like it could be a good way to open up my new home.
Hey Marianne! It would be so dangerous for me to not have friends to eat what I bake!! Luckily they always seem to be in adundant supply every time I open the oven… I even once had my window cleaner comment on how good my banana bread smelled – it was such a clear hint I took pity and gave him a piece!
Marissa, you are precious too. Remind me, when are you coming to visit?!
Haha! That’s really cute about the window cleaner…
Oh and I meant to add, marianne, that you should definitely invite lots of people round to your new home! I’ve learnt over the last few years that good hospitality is not about everything being perfect (the food colours matching the table runner etc!) but just about a having a spirit of welcome and generosity, with whatever you have…
That’s very good advice.
*sigh* Another core value honoured in the next generation! There is nothing left to teach you my lovely daughter – you understand that love encircles hospitality which is so important in life!