but there aren’t always photos.

The trade show job necessitated some baking. Banana bread, oatmeal cookies, chocolate cookies, banana/raisin/chocolate chips squares, cornmeal & cheddar mini muffins and my favourite carrot cake.

I love baking, the smell says “I love someone”. I didn’t taste anything, of course ’cause of my low carb diet.

Funny isn’t it, as a chef I taste and season just about everything that I make but when I bake I can’t. Imagine getting a cake with a wedge missing and the little note “tasted the cake, it’s fine”. Baking is where you really have to trust your recipes. I have some favourite authors but my most favourite baking book is an obscure one called Secrets of a Jewish Baker. This book is foolproof, wether you are baking their bread recipes or muffins or loaves, it’s just wonderful. It doesn’t have pies & cakes but I have other cookbooks for that .

We are cooking vegetarian this week as well as a host of other little projects. See you tomorrow.