New Year, new resolutions... don't we all? There are several things I mean to do differently in 2019, and I am going to track them here, but baking is the first one.
I am so beyond excited that I received a KitchenAid stand mixer this Christmas from my wonderful hubs! It's been a wish for years, but I always dismissed it as a frivolous purchase we did not need to make. I used to love to bake, and did a fair amount of it. I haven't baked in years, and there are several valid reasons for that, among which is Celiac Disease. Everything has to be gluten-free, and let me just tell you, that's no fun on the baking front. Additionally, I have been following a keto protocol for a year, so that eliminates sugar and carbohydrates. Take out grains and sugars, and baking gets more complicated. Fast.
But, I have new resolve to do things for myself this year, and baking is one of them. Especially with that mixer!
And my work-in-progress baking station crafted from an odd corner built-in kitchen desk:
I am so beyond excited that I received a KitchenAid stand mixer this Christmas from my wonderful hubs! It's been a wish for years, but I always dismissed it as a frivolous purchase we did not need to make. I used to love to bake, and did a fair amount of it. I haven't baked in years, and there are several valid reasons for that, among which is Celiac Disease. Everything has to be gluten-free, and let me just tell you, that's no fun on the baking front. Additionally, I have been following a keto protocol for a year, so that eliminates sugar and carbohydrates. Take out grains and sugars, and baking gets more complicated. Fast.
But, I have new resolve to do things for myself this year, and baking is one of them. Especially with that mixer!
And my work-in-progress baking station crafted from an odd corner built-in kitchen desk:
How can I not bake? For the first day of the New Year, I made a keto banana bread (yeah, that's a bit of an oxymoron, but it was a treat) with some gnarly bananas left from Christmas week, and some cute blueberry squares using up some blueberries we had defrosted for my MIL to make blueberry pie for the kids. All sugar-free and grain-free.
Someone said you should do on New Year's Day what you want to do more of in the coming year. So, I baked two things!
The Banana Bread Recipe is here: https://delicrunch.co/banana-bread-recipe/, and the Blueberry Crumble Bars recipe is here: https://www.lowcarbmaven.com/blueberry-crumble-bars/
In case you were wondering...they were delicious!
This urge to bake again is interesting to me. I can only think that some good and amazing creative stuff that's been happening at work is overlapping into life, and I am totally ok with that. I need a lot of it, because there's a lot to get done around here. There's organizing to do, planning to do, restoring a farmhouse to do, and so.much.more. This is how I stay calm in the crazy of my life. Stay tuned.
Someone said you should do on New Year's Day what you want to do more of in the coming year. So, I baked two things!
The Banana Bread Recipe is here: https://delicrunch.co/banana-bread-recipe/, and the Blueberry Crumble Bars recipe is here: https://www.lowcarbmaven.com/blueberry-crumble-bars/
In case you were wondering...they were delicious!
This urge to bake again is interesting to me. I can only think that some good and amazing creative stuff that's been happening at work is overlapping into life, and I am totally ok with that. I need a lot of it, because there's a lot to get done around here. There's organizing to do, planning to do, restoring a farmhouse to do, and so.much.more. This is how I stay calm in the crazy of my life. Stay tuned.
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