The Baking Brain

Learning about myself while experimenting with baking.

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I spent a lifetime telling myself I did but like cooking and how hard it was, so, of course, learning to bake was pointless.

It would be even more difficult, and everything I made would be a failure.

So, thoughts became real, and I avoided the oven at all costs. It was a vengeful creature, after all, and if I so much as looked at it, why, I'd burn down the kitchen, perhaps even the house!

Except... what if that wasn't true? What then?

I woke up one day with the conviction that the oven would scare me no longer. I would show it I could bake!

Of course... I've had a few failures. Biscuits that almost didn't cook because the dough was too short, a banana cake I took out of the pan too soon to cool on a wire rack which collapsed in on itself and became banana crumble... And each time it happened, I was ready to quit.

But I was a big boy now, and I would never surrender! Since then I've made biscuits, carrot cakes with frosting, roasted veggies, and more. And I continue to learn.

Who knew baking could teach me so much about life itself?

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