Day 8 of Decembermeme!
Dec. 15th, 2013 08:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mmmdracoToday's topic: Baking or cooking?
If I look at this solely as a case of which am I happier with the results of? Cooking. However, which do I enjoy doing more? Baking.
It's easy enough to season something. It's pretty hard to screw up a lot of things when cooking them unless you get distracted. For baking, though, it's amazing how it all comes together. Earlier this evening, I decided to throw away the idea of recipes for pizza dough. Instead, I went by the techniques I knew and made what ended up being some of the best pizza I've ever had (my husband and a friend also agreed it was really tasty). But I also made a cake today. It's a simple one. Just a coffee cake. But I get a lot more joy out of the process of baking. Even when the final result is pretty horrendous, I enjoy the process of watching a dough or batter come together. I like combining flavors and figuring out where I can make substitutions. When it comes to baked goods? I'm usually perfectly fine to just have a single serving of whatever I've made and then to watch other people enjoy it. Especially if they tell me how much they like it.
When people like anything I've cooked for them, it makes me smile. But baked goods are such an iffy beast sometimes that it's far more rewarding to be told I did something good there, I guess?
(If you'd like to make a suggestion on something for me to post a day this month, add it as a comment here. C'mon. I only have 1 more days worth after this!)
If I look at this solely as a case of which am I happier with the results of? Cooking. However, which do I enjoy doing more? Baking.
It's easy enough to season something. It's pretty hard to screw up a lot of things when cooking them unless you get distracted. For baking, though, it's amazing how it all comes together. Earlier this evening, I decided to throw away the idea of recipes for pizza dough. Instead, I went by the techniques I knew and made what ended up being some of the best pizza I've ever had (my husband and a friend also agreed it was really tasty). But I also made a cake today. It's a simple one. Just a coffee cake. But I get a lot more joy out of the process of baking. Even when the final result is pretty horrendous, I enjoy the process of watching a dough or batter come together. I like combining flavors and figuring out where I can make substitutions. When it comes to baked goods? I'm usually perfectly fine to just have a single serving of whatever I've made and then to watch other people enjoy it. Especially if they tell me how much they like it.
When people like anything I've cooked for them, it makes me smile. But baked goods are such an iffy beast sometimes that it's far more rewarding to be told I did something good there, I guess?
(If you'd like to make a suggestion on something for me to post a day this month, add it as a comment here. C'mon. I only have 1 more days worth after this!)
