pretty in RED

I love rainy days. They are such a nice change of pace. There is something so nice about waking up to the rain, lying in bed and realizing that for the moment you have nothing to do. Curling up on the coach with a good book and watching shows on the Style channel is awesome. For a couple of hours…. Then boredom sets in. And whenever I get bored on rainy days for some reason I get the urge to bake. Now for most people that’s completely fine. Then can figure out what they want to bake, bake it with no problems, and enjoying eating some of what ever they made. This however, is not the case when I decide I want to bake. OOOOO no. When I decide that I want to bake, I can never decide what to bake. I will spend HOURS on foodnetwork.com looking at recipes. Eventually I get overwhelmed and either A. give up on the whole baking idea or B. chose something at random. If at this point I still want to bake, things start to get really interesting. You see, I firmly believe that some people are born with “baking genes”. Someone born with “baking genes” is amazing at baking. They can cook, and I’ll go as far as saying that they can clean. I, Angela, do not have this “baking gene”, I suck at cleaning, I’m horrible at cooking, and I’m even worse at baking. I rush and never measure anything correctly, I burn myself if not the food too, and it never looks right. Sometimes I can make something that actually tastes ok… but it looks disgusting. All I can say is thank god it’s not 1940 anymore, because there is NO WAY I would make a good house wife. The final step of baking (not including cleaning up- because I’ll be honest anything that falls under the cleaning category I try to ignore) is eating whatever has been made. If I’ve made something that taste good, I can get over how it looks and eat it. If it tastes really good I end up eating way more of it then I should. Hence why I am not a size 0 and never will be. I have no self control when it comes to dessert. :)
Fortunately for me, and everyone else who would have been subjected to my baking, I gave up on the whole baking idea after not being able to decide what to make. However the picture below is from my last rainy day baking adventure when my friend Tim and I made a Coca Cola cake. Even though it looked disgusting it was delicious.