Domestic Inclinations

It's been a while, but not to worry, the cooking fever has not left me yet. I've just been busy I suppose. I had graduation, my dance season and work. Of course the work never ends but now that the other things have I can devote more time here.

I love shopping for cooking things. Since I last wrote I've acquired two whisks (one big, one small), a candy thermometer and a spatula. Each purchase gets me more excited than the last and I had to resist the urge to buy a third whisk simply because it's the baby version to my big one. Have I used any of the things yet? Well I have used the big whisk and spatula, but the baby whisk is waiting on me to make chocolate mousse. In the meantime, I'm on the hunt for heavy cream which refuses to be found anywhere. Tomorrow I will go searching again because today is already very crazy.

Over time I have found that whenever I like someone my domestic side comes out, it's so weird because generally I despise cooking, cleaning and the like. My cooking thing is a recent development, hopefully one that will stick. Since Christmas is coming I told my mother that I want her to teach me how to make Christmas cake/pudding this year. She in turn told me that I should go to my grand-aunt's house and have her teach me because her cakes are amazing, and at age 97 she can't make them anymore. This is what I should be doing at some point today. I'm not quite sure how that will fit into the already hectic schedule of today but I'm still excited.

I also bought a journal to write my random recipes in. It's such a pretty book and it's one that is ring bound so that way it will lie flat when I'm reading a recipe from it. I've written in about four recipe's so far. Eventually I want to write the ones I put on this blog in there because that way I'll have them at the ready when I need them. Like during the past week, I went home to the country and for some reason the internet wasn't working so I couldn't access the cheese and bacon biscuits recipe. That was the first recipe I wrote from the blog into my book. I figure eventually if the book lasts that long then I'll pass it on to my daughter or something like that.