Though I love to cook (and totally enjoy eating!), I’ve never found pleasure in baking.\u00a0 When push comes to shove, I’ll put together a bundt or upside-down cake (I despise frosting!) or a pie (nut, fruit cobblers, cream or meringue) but I simply don’t enjoy the process.\u00a0 Other than making bread in a machine, I avoid making pastries completely.<\/p>\n
Today’s an exception.\u00a0 After watching half a dozen YouTube videos, I’ve decided to try my hand at making cinnamon rolls.\u00a0 I love eating them and since we often have overnight visitors on the weekends, they would be a welcomed addition to our breakfasts.<\/p>\n
Thus far, the process has been simple.\u00a0 The ingredients are basic and it’s almost magical to proof yeast and watch dough rise (as it’s doing now).\u00a0 Before long, the dough will be rolled around brown sugar\/cinnamon, cut and baked.\u00a0 I’m looking forward to the heavenly baking smell.<\/p>\n
With today being St. Patty’s day, I will make traditional corned beef with cabbage, carrots and potatoes for our dinner.\u00a0 My Scotch\/Irish red-gone-grey-haired DH and I will feast!<\/p>\n
Recently, I’ve been working on another rug.\u00a0 The scrappy colors in this one are more muted than the last.\u00a0 I’m about half finished and planning the next.\u00a0 In the evenings when I grow tired of ‘rugging’, I pick up String Pyramids and continue the quilting process.\u00a0 It’s coming along nicely too.<\/p>\n
Later:\u00a0 <\/strong>Was hoping to snap photos of the finished cinnamon rolls but as soon as they were frosted, DH dug in and ate 3.\u00a0 I had 2 myself and can confirm they are YUMMY!\u00a0 I’ll make these babies again soon!<\/p>\n Shirl<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Though I love to cook (and totally enjoy eating!), I’ve never found pleasure in baking.\u00a0 When push comes to shove, I’ll put together a bundt or upside-down cake (I despise frosting!) or a pie (nut, fruit cobblers, cream or meringue) but I simply don’t enjoy the process.\u00a0 Other than making bread in a machine, I (continue reading…) <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,14,40],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3100"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3100"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3104,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3100\/revisions\/3104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}