Being Married to a Woman who bakes has it's advantages

Both Anita, my wife, and I love to cook. Well let me rephrase that. I love to cook. She loves to bake. The funny thing about how we look at both crafts are that they are easy. I personally think that if you know how to read, you know how to cook. Obviously there is more too it but that is the basic necessity. You just need to follow a recipe and there you go. Food.

There are differences between cooking and baking. The major one is the ingredients and how you use them. What I mean by that is that with cooking, you can add more of something on the fly just for kicks. With baking, the majority of the ingredients must be exact. You almost never substitute something in baking. That is for the most part. Yes you can change certain acids and certain bases and get similar results, but everything stays the same for the most part.

So as I was saying, whipping up something for Anita and I is pretty easy. For example, this morning Anita realized we have no cookies in the house. Her signature cookie is the Chocolate Chip. I personally like them frozen with a very cold glass of milk. With each holiday, she whips up something appropriate. Ruggalah and Bobbka for the Jewish High Holidays and Pecan Meringue's and coconut macaroons for Passover. She is also known to make a fabulous Cheesecake at a moments notice.

Back to today, she made up a batch of Chocolate Chip cookies and peanut butter cookies. Take a look why I'll never be known as slim.

Yeah, waking up or just sitting down somewhere close by can be so rewarding when these are being baked.  Really.  In the back you see the signature chocolate chip cooling down before being placed in a baggie and then put in the freezer.  In the front are her peanut butter cookie.  Playfully done with a Hershey's Kiss in the middle.

I've been messing around with photographing some of the food I make so hope this makes you water.

I made sure I have milk tonight when I get home from Dinner.