The Lazy Baker

Hi, I am Marie & I am a biscotti-aholic.

This is the 3rd time in 2 months that I have made a new biscotti recipe.  I cannot get enough!  While most people are making resolutions to eat less baked goods, I am making resolutions to eat more.  Honestly the better quality of food I eat, the better I look & feel.  That's my reasoning & I am sticking to it.

The thing I should be working on though is not being so lazy in the kitchen.  Examples?  I have plenty:

Sometimes I forget I can't do more than one thing at a time and when I get the itch to bake I can end up juggling 2, 3 or 4 things at once.  Following that many recipes simultaneously can make for a few mistakes.  I guess this isn't so much lazy as delusional.

The first rule of thumb any good cook knows is to read through the whole recipe first.  Of course I admonish everyone to do this.  Do I?  Of course not.  Usually it's not a big deal but on more than one occasion it's come back to bite me in the behind.

Sometimes instead of softening my butter I zap it for 8 or 9 seconds in the microwave.  Bad baker, bad, bad, bad.  I know softened butter creamed with sugar results in a fluffy creamy mixture full of air bubbles and melting even ever so slightly can ruin that.  I have no excuse.  Yeah I do, I am lazy.

Not sure if this qualifies as lazy or a stroke of genius.  I've learned I don't need to wash my measuring cups, teaspoons or cookie sheets.  Just wipe em all off with a dish towel.  It has literally changed my life.   Unless honey or oil is involved, those babies are getting a quick wipe and back in the cupboards they go.

Halfway throug making granola I think, who needs a silly recipe

I can be so busy thinking about when I'll have time to watch my DVR'd  Bachelor and whoops, too much baking soda.

I have about 100 recipes piling up on my cookbook stand even though I claim to be organized.  At least I am not too lazy to make them.

I used all white flour in the Biscotti today because my kids weren't home to grind wheat...........

.............which is ironic seeing that first thing this morning I was on the phone to all the health food stores in Temecula to see if they carried whole dried corn so I could grind my own cornmeal for the biscotti.  They don't.  Frowny face.  (The lazy baker is also lazy with technology and doesn't know how to add in those yellow frowny faces.  Or happy faces for that matter.)

The lazy baker has tons of cute aprons from every goodwill in CA.  I never wear any of them.  Too lazy.

The lazy baker would rather be a lazy baker than a bad baker.