I LOVE to cook, but I hate baking. Weird? Well, I can take a lot of liberties with cooking, it just seems to come natural... I can modify recipes, make up recipes and a lot of times I can recreate dishes I've had at a restaurant just by knowing what different spices taste like. Not so with baking. I ALWAYS mess up something when I bake. Tonight's baking adventure was Amish Friendship Bread. This is the second starter batch Suzanne has brought me...all the way from Raleigh! Last time I added ingredients before I divided up the starter and had to throw the whole thing out. Tonight, I think it will turn out okay, but I was doubling the recipe (so if I messed up, I'd really waste a lot of ingredients) and I needed to add 3 tsp. baking POWDER and 1 tsp. baking SODA.... well, I read it like 3 times, and then added 3 tsp. of baking SODA. Plop, it was in there and then I realized I screwed up. Too late to fix it. So I'm baking it anyway. I don't know... maybe it'll be fine, but I hope it doesn't taste funky. I think after tonight, I'll stick to cooking and leave dessert for someone else. I do have 3 starters if anyone would like them!
