Penny’s Baking World
December 19, 2008
Instead of showing you a picture of me in a cadillac yoga position, I’m tickled to show you an article about me and something I made. In my actual kitchen.With food items combined to make what’s known as a recipe. My children and those who know me best understand the mind-boggling irony in any article featuring me cooking ANYTHING. I really could use a Baking Personal Trainer. But if I can make the newspaper for cooking something, then the hope of Christmas is alive and well. ANYthing is possible.
We had a snow day today, more Christmasy than Isthmus and conditions were perfect for baking. I love the idea of holiday baking. I just think that it is one of those activities that is wonderful as well as dangerous if cookies happen to be your trigger food, meaning you can’t eat just one.
These holiday treats that I made are a heart attack disguised as a peanut butter ball. They are delectable. It’s just that one small ball has almost 400 calories, most of them saturated fat and all of them empty (meaning no nutritional value at all) and as much as I adore them, the two bites it takes to eat one is not worth the 40 minutes of sweating that it would take to burn them off.
Scrooge? Maybe. My point though is to just have one (this year) and to enjoy it.
Sit down by the fireplace with a good book and a glass of milk(skim) and make it last a few minutes. Really taste and enjoy.
This is the opposite of what usually happens which is popping a few in my mouth as I head out the door. Let’s call it Holiday Mouth Minding.
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