Baking & Sprinkles

My recent romp into baking for friends - some may not call it baking, but I had my hands covered in cookie dough and pulled the baking pans out of the oven. Surely that counts for something.

Anyways, what a pleasure it is to watch friends enjoy something you baked for them! I made sugar cookies with strawberry icing (yum), and no one would let me put sprinkles on them. I like sprinkles. In fact, I made up the banishment of sprinkles the next day while at an ice cream social at the Indianapolis Zoo.

Sprinkles! Which leads me to my next question. From where did the word "sprinkle" originate? Let's look it up: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprinkles ...That was not a satisfying article. Ho hum.

I also recently sent out a few notes here and there to old friends. It's nice to receive something in the mail sometimes. :)

I will not mix chocolate milk with orange juice!

Is it silly that I tend to enjoy orange juice more when I drink it from the (white) wine glass? I just close my eyes and savor the taste so much more than normal.

Yum.

However, chocolate milk I can drink from a water bottle and still have the same effect. Chocolate is so good.

The point is, I think that people taste something for the first few bites and then stop paying attention to the flavors. I do this too, of course, but I'm trying to learn how to savor certain things (like fromage, wine, etc.). I haven't really gotten to a point where I can appreciate wine (because I don't. except Moscato d'Asti, which doesn't count), but cheese! oh my goodness! Cheese! (L'association fromages de terroirs - the cheese association of terror!) I've been on the hunt for a particularly savory Parmesan, but so far no luck.

I digressed. Sorry.

Do me a favor tonight: enjoy the food. We're lucky that we have choices at all.

Side note: I had a massage yesterday, and it makes food taste better. Actually, it makes the world look, well, le monde en rose. Until you read CNN, that is. Oil this, murder that.

SAVOR YOUR FOOD! It makes life more delectable in a very small (or very large) way.