This is the season for the things that I love to do the most. Fall weather just screams baked goods and handknits to me. Sure, I knit my way through the summer, doing sweaters even (fingering weight ones), but the baking really fell off. Truth be told it's been off for a long time, something about doing it as your job can put you off doing it at home too, and it hasn't come back much in the time since I quit.
I have baked since I was old enough to be trusted with the oven. I mostly baked sweet stuff, since that is so much fun to 'quality control'. I learned early on to ask my dad if I could bake; his answer was never no. Mom would always ask things like "Didn't you just make brownies? Do we really need cookies too?" and "Are you going to clean up afterwards?" I totally get where she was coming from now, I would be asking the same ones, but then it was so much easier to just ask dad....
The most likely things to come out of my oven these days are scones, muffins, or cookies. Still the sweet stuff. I get a kick out of the fact that my 5 year old will request scones. Chocolate chip ones, but still. Muffins are another go-to around here when the baking mojo is with me. I have one recipe that I memorized a long time ago after making it dozens of times. It can become chocolate chip muffins as easily as it can become the brown sugar and cinnamon that I made this morning. Gotta love quick, easy and yummy!
I'm hoping to jump back onto the bread making bandwagon soon, there is nothing quite like bread fresh out of the oven with a little butter on it. I'll have to wrestle the kids for it, and make about three times what I need so that I have some left for sandwiches or another snacktime, but it will be worth it.
To fall, when my loves shine :).
