From scratch.

I am the sort of person who feels content when the cupboards are full, the laundry is done & put away, and we have enough toilet paper in the house to last a month.  I also love the feeling of having the week's menu planned, something I carve out 15 minutes for, here and there.  Last night I made a loaf of bread to go with our leftovers:

and a cheesecake berry pie to use up the expired graham crackers:

 
and as long as the oven was on, I threw in a banana bread with those tasteless bananas I got last week.

I don't usually do this much baking in a day, though I seldom let 2 or 3 days pass in a row without baking something.  In the book Food Rules Michael Pollan suggests that one way to cut down on "special occasion foods" is to make them yourself, because you won't go to that much work every day.  Obviously, this man has never heard of melty cookies (the homemade single-serving gooey peanut butter chocolate chip cookies I make for my kids after school).  And before you get to thinking I'm high on my own accomplishments, take another look at yesterday's messy desk photo....

The April giveaway ends tonight!

Comments

[Michelle]

Cheesecake berry pie sounds delicious. Can you share the recipe?

[Cori Berg]

Can I come stay at your house a few days?

[Tiffani]

Um, that food rule wouldn't help me because I like making "special occasion foods" as much as eating them!