Beneath the Surface

Another day of baking. I've finished a double batch of blueberry muffins and a double batch of double chocolate muffins, and am almost finished with the three nisu (Finnish cardamom bread). A nisu and a few muffins will stay home, the rest will go with me and a friend tomorrow.

I'm torn between being really impressed with myself for getting this much done at all since I can't run any water down the drains at the moment (plumbing problem, don't ask, makes washing dishes an interesting job though :)), and feeling that I should have managed to do more cooking anyway. One of those "one must always bring masses of food when going to a gathering" things. Generally I enjoy it, which is kind of odd since I'm not all that fond of cooking. I had all these great ideas for stuff to make, ended up going with (mostly) those that created the fewest dishes to wash. I eliminated one item (carrot bread) from consideration because it requires a food processor and cleaning the food processor is such a pain even if you haven't been using it on instant-stain carrots!

Then again I also enjoy being feastocrat for our local SCA group, at least on rare occasion, and always wonder why that is because, well, see above about me and cooking :). I'm a fair cook, but a practical cook--function over form, as with just about everything else. Well, ideally function and form but if you can only have one...