Confessions of a bakeaholic and a sorcerer's apprentice
Sometimes life gives you lemons. What you make of them is what defines who you really are.
Truth be told, I love lemons. I had my share of failures - in my kitchen as well as in my professional and personal life - but whenever I fail, I grab my apron and set to work. My kitchen is my portal to another dimension of hard work and dedication but also of successes and yes, sometimes failures. For all the wonderful recipes I've tried and perfected, there have been times when I wondered if I shouldn't simply quit.
I never did. I never do. Because I'm a bakeaholic. That's what makes me happy. And proud. And though sometimes I do feel like a sorcerer's apprentice, I also know that if at first I don't succeed, I'm allowed to try until I finally do and that truly warms my heart. Hence the name of my blog - seasoned with love. I truly feel my life is indeed seasoned with love. Not thanks to extraordinary events but by small bits of happiness and baking has its fair share in those.
So here I will honestly recount you my failures and successes. Tell me about yours ;)
I have cooked and baked more in the last few months than in my whole life. To be honest, baking is my lifeline. Not because I love food - I do - but because when I bake, I forget about anything else - good and bad alike. As I discovered the hard way, baking is about perfection. You need a hundred percent concentration or whatever you're preparing is a disaster in the making.
Take today. July 12th. Two days from Bastille Day and the sudden urge to bake something blue, white and red. I choose cream puffs with colored glace royale and set to work. I mean - I must have made choux a million times. And glace royale? So easy you could make it in your sleep. Yeah, sure, you betcha! My first attempt at choux was a disaster. The second time, they were uneven. So many things can go wrong actually, it has to happen once in a while. It did today! I'm totally jinxed! No, I mean, really! 'Cos when I made my glace royale, I was aggravated I had failed at my first recipe. I did not measure my confectioners' sugar properly and ended up with a runny icing. The vanilla pudding was good though and even if the result doesn't look great, I had fun and it does taste delicious. Next time around will be better. No, scratch that - it will be perfect or I'll die trying ;)
Publié le 12 juillet 2016 par Laurie