Posts tagged: do more of what makes you happy
Today I tried baking with cups for the first time. It is truly an alien concept to not be putting ingredients onto scales and knowing the exact weight of each ingredient as I add it to the mixture. I thought that using cups would result in some kind of disaster due to lack of exact measuring. The good news is that it didn’t.
I made berry-walnut upside down cake, from the lovely magazine Jordi sent me. It tastes amazing.
Whilst I was running around the kitchen trying to work out which head of a Russian doll I was supposed to use for 2/3s of a cup, and trying to work out what 2/3 cup was for liquid measurement, I panicked that I would probably be measuring it wrong, that my flour was packed down or that Canadian cups weren’t the same as American cups and I’d end up with the wrong quantities of things. I definitely prefer ounces, or grams if I’m feeling metric. But it wasn’t as daunting as I’d originally expected - and after working out what 2/3 cup for liquid was, I realised that my measuring jug has cup measurements on it. Fool.
All in all I’m glad I made the time today to bake something, that it wasn’t all work.
NaNoWriMo starts in 11 days. After signing up I decided I wouldn’t do it, but now I think I’m going to give it a shot, and see what happens.
On the 17th October every year I make resolutions. A list that for most people would be written at the end of the year is, for whatever reason, not what I do. I always feel like things change more in autumn than they do in January - on 31st December it’s the middle of winter, and it’s the same on 1st January, but on a randomly selected October day such as the 17th, the seasons are changing, summer to winter - it’s cold some days, warm others, and so it makes more sense to me to start again here with things I want to achieve in the next 12 months.
A few days ago I reblogged this thing I saw, which is somewhere below, that says “DO MORE OF WHAT MAKES YOU HAPPY”. This resonated with me, having realised lately that there are things I love to do that I don’t do frequently enough. So that is my main resolution for the next 12 months. Do more of what makes me happy. Along with the trying to read more books and listen to a wider variety of music and graduating, I will be thinking about those words.
It was quite apt today, because a package arrived for me all the way from Canada, from my friend Jordi. She sent me a baking magazine, with all these amazing recipes in for autumn - recipes involving pears and apples and maple syrup, all of which looked amazing, and a request from her that we share what we’ve baked. My first thought was “I won’t have time”, and my second thought was “No, I will make time”. Because I know that I can. In between working and studying there are gaps, and these gaps will be filled with things that will make me happier. That will make working and studying go faster because I know I’ll get to make maple cheesecake or go take photos of autumn leaves. Yes.
