The only excuse that I have for previous failings is sheer laziness. This laziness is on so many levels that it is actually embarrassing. The first being that I would bake and then tell myself I'd take photos later and then by the time I had the camera set up, they had all gone. In order to combat this issue I'm going to be less picky with photos - if my phone is all I have at the time then it will just have to do.
The second is that last September I became a student. This brought up quite a few obstacles: the kitchen in halls was, for lack of a better word, grim. I'm talking a fridge that kept food either frozen or warm; an oven that I struggled to cook fish fingers in; a kettle that required a jar of marmite on top in order for it to boil, and damp in the cupboard I kept my food in. With a kitchen like that I didn't even attempt to bake. Another obstacle was that ever constant issue of time/money. Baking is expensive business and so I couldn't afford to do it. So I had a job. But I was so busy working and doing uni stuff that I never had the time to bake. And the final obstacle was just the fact that being lazy is what students are good at. In fact, my six year old cousin once said to me "Zoe, what do you learn at university? Sleeping?" The worst part was that he was so right. Another issue here was that my flat was at the top of about 5 flights of stairs outside and then 2 inside and flour etc is heavy (and I'm lazy) and so that just didn't work. However, I am now home for the summer and then after summer I'm hoping to move into a (slightly) better flat and so this should be less of an issue.
I'm hoping to use this blog to document my love of baking - I'm so bad with recipe books and adding notes and so hopefully this will be an easier way in which to keep track. I do enjoy cakes and biscuits etc but I think I like baking them more than consuming them - luckily I have a family to does! Bread, however, I could live off. I tend to bake when I'm stressed or bored or feeling creative. And always when I have the house to myself, or when my family is in bed. Solitude is bliss when it comes to baking. I'll stop for now, but this should hopefully become an at least weekly thing.
