Let There Be Cake
May. 17th, 2012 02:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
multipurposegoddessFor some reason, last night I had the strong feeling that today (i.e., last night's tomorrow) I would be super productive and get tons done. That is totally not happening. And I'm not even wasting a lot of time being distracted (at least, not that I'm noticing) or napping or whatever, I'm just moving slowly. Stuff is getting done, but not a whole lot.
So I am reacting to my frustration with that by making pound cake. I would say that makes sense in my head, but, really, it doesn't. It's just what happened. But I was planning on making pound cake at some point because I do have to use up all these eggs, and I made sure I bought more than a pound of butter while I was at the store so I wouldn't be completely out after making cake (it feels extravagant, buying more than a pound of butter. 5 lbs of flour or sugar feels normal, but 2 pounds of butter is getting too rich for my blood, apparently. (I also picked up 6 dozen eggs from the farm yesterday, which is a LOT of eggs but I paid for them in advance and have to eat them up so my innate frugality is pushing me the other way there) I compromised by getting half a pound of fancy "pasture" butter from presumably happy cows to not bake with. I splurged on some before and I think I do prefer the flavor for, like, bread and butter, simple things like that). And I have all these limes (even after making a quart of cordial and a quart of lime syrup) and I found a lemon I'd forgotten about, so it's lemon-lime pound cake, heavy on the lime. Two loaves, which doesn't seem like that much but will undoubtedly take me a long time to actually eat.
So I am reacting to my frustration with that by making pound cake. I would say that makes sense in my head, but, really, it doesn't. It's just what happened. But I was planning on making pound cake at some point because I do have to use up all these eggs, and I made sure I bought more than a pound of butter while I was at the store so I wouldn't be completely out after making cake (it feels extravagant, buying more than a pound of butter. 5 lbs of flour or sugar feels normal, but 2 pounds of butter is getting too rich for my blood, apparently. (I also picked up 6 dozen eggs from the farm yesterday, which is a LOT of eggs but I paid for them in advance and have to eat them up so my innate frugality is pushing me the other way there) I compromised by getting half a pound of fancy "pasture" butter from presumably happy cows to not bake with. I splurged on some before and I think I do prefer the flavor for, like, bread and butter, simple things like that). And I have all these limes (even after making a quart of cordial and a quart of lime syrup) and I found a lemon I'd forgotten about, so it's lemon-lime pound cake, heavy on the lime. Two loaves, which doesn't seem like that much but will undoubtedly take me a long time to actually eat.