If you know me or have read this blog for any amount of time, you may have ascertained that I love to bake. I take pride in my baking. I enjoy trying new things, and have a natural curiosity for well, sweets. Cause they're just so curiously good! Who's day can't be brightened by a little chocolate?!
Here in Flat 2, Road 199 (or our 'cell' as I believe Emily would refer to it) the oven is my friend, but not Em's. In #4 Muhamed Abu Salem, the oven did not agree with me, however Emily had perfected it.
So here's how my relaxing, stress-relieving baking goes.
1. Get groceries delivered by my favs, the Mirry Men of Miriam.
2. Hope the cookies will mix well enough since the beater on my brand new $40 not-even-that-good-but-good-for-here mixer decided to break on me after like a month, so mixing is now a bit one-sided.
3. Stop hoping and actually try to control the crazy, one-sided, mind of it's own mixer.
4. Did I preheat the oven? Oh yeah, I remember turning the gas on, opening the door, striking a match and dropping it down a hole at the bottom of our oven. I remember that this time I didn't have to jerk my hand back as it lit immediately, instead I had to press the oven door shut for dear life because it doesn't quite close so the gas escapes and it won't light and oh my goodness that's a run-on sentence and if I taught above inventive spelling, capitalizations, and putting periods on a sentence I might actually care. But then, soon enough, the familiar "BOOM" of the oven lighting allows me to release the oven door from it's forced close.
5. Check oven thermometer (left off the import list from yesterday, but was most certainly imported from the U.S.).
6. Put cookies in oven. Under bake by a few minutes. This is the secret to amazing baking.
7. Take cookies out. Before putting next batch in open oven door and watch thermometer drop until desired temperature is reached. Do this before each new cookie batch.
Oh, that's because I forgot to tell you the oven has ONE setting. No, let me be generous. It has TWO. Ready?... You sure?... This is life altering people!...
My oven can be:
OFF
or
ON!
Yes, I will certainly not miss the uncertainty of baking here in Egypt, however, it will take some of the challenge out of it. I wonder if it will be as good a stress reliever in the U.S. once the puzzle part is removed from the picture. Anyone willing to try it out and see? ;)
Here in Flat 2, Road 199 (or our 'cell' as I believe Emily would refer to it) the oven is my friend, but not Em's. In #4 Muhamed Abu Salem, the oven did not agree with me, however Emily had perfected it.
So here's how my relaxing, stress-relieving baking goes.
1. Get groceries delivered by my favs, the Mirry Men of Miriam.
2. Hope the cookies will mix well enough since the beater on my brand new $40 not-even-that-good-but-good-for-here mixer decided to break on me after like a month, so mixing is now a bit one-sided.
3. Stop hoping and actually try to control the crazy, one-sided, mind of it's own mixer.
4. Did I preheat the oven? Oh yeah, I remember turning the gas on, opening the door, striking a match and dropping it down a hole at the bottom of our oven. I remember that this time I didn't have to jerk my hand back as it lit immediately, instead I had to press the oven door shut for dear life because it doesn't quite close so the gas escapes and it won't light and oh my goodness that's a run-on sentence and if I taught above inventive spelling, capitalizations, and putting periods on a sentence I might actually care. But then, soon enough, the familiar "BOOM" of the oven lighting allows me to release the oven door from it's forced close.
5. Check oven thermometer (left off the import list from yesterday, but was most certainly imported from the U.S.).
6. Put cookies in oven. Under bake by a few minutes. This is the secret to amazing baking.
7. Take cookies out. Before putting next batch in open oven door and watch thermometer drop until desired temperature is reached. Do this before each new cookie batch.
Oh, that's because I forgot to tell you the oven has ONE setting. No, let me be generous. It has TWO. Ready?... You sure?... This is life altering people!...
My oven can be:
OFF
or
ON!
Yes, I will certainly not miss the uncertainty of baking here in Egypt, however, it will take some of the challenge out of it. I wonder if it will be as good a stress reliever in the U.S. once the puzzle part is removed from the picture. Anyone willing to try it out and see? ;)
1 comment:
Um, at least it's not brick?! :) I look forward to something a little bigger than a 9x13 pan size. And my mixer, otherwise known at the Greta, also cost me more hryvnia but I think it was for the name only and it wore off.
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