{"id":1181,"date":"2009-04-06T12:19:30","date_gmt":"2009-04-06T11:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beverlyrevelry.com\/?p=1181"},"modified":"2009-04-06T12:19:53","modified_gmt":"2009-04-06T11:19:53","slug":"give-us-this-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/?p=1181","title":{"rendered":"Give us this day …<\/b>"},"content":{"rendered":"

A while back, when I asked some of my friends to give me a few ideas for blog posts, April mentioned that I am “an excellent baker” and often post pictures of yummy treats that she wishes she could sample.\u00a0 I don’t think I’m flattering myself at all if I agree that I am pretty darn skillful with a mixing bowl and a baking pan, something that surprises me a little given that it wasn’t until I moved to Sweden that I developed any interest at all in kitchenly pursuits.<\/p>\n

While I had made plenty of batches of cookies and a respectable number of cakes and biscuits and pies–and even the odd doughnut and loaf of bread–in my previous life, I had done it all with my firmly fixed on the end product.\u00a0 It was the eating of said goodies that interested me;\u00a0 baking them was nothing more than the work I had to slog through to get from craving to satisfaction.<\/p>\n

The situation is rather the opposite now — while I sure don’t mind eating the scrumptious fruits of my labors, the real joy is in the baking.\u00a0 There’s something calming, almost therapeutic, about the measuring and mixing and kneading and shaping.\u00a0 Not infrequently, I’ll send the kids downstairs with Olof after hectic family suppers and take an hour or so to unwind while whipping up a batch of brownies or maybe some rolls for the next day’s dinner.\u00a0 By the time I’ve taken a hot pan of home-baked goodness from the oven, my equilibrium is restored and I’m ready to rejoin the tumult that is life with four kids.<\/p>\n

For the last little while I’ve been in a bread-making way, which unfortunately poses a real challenge for my willpower.\u00a0 I generally don’t have too much trouble resisting cake and cookies, but fresh bread is a whole ‘nother story.\u00a0 I love it so much that I am practically powerless in its presence.\u00a0 In fact, I would have no problem at all serving myself a dinner just like this every night of the week:<\/p>\n

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A while back, when I asked some of my friends to give me a few ideas for blog posts, April mentioned that I am “an excellent baker” and often post pictures of yummy treats that she wishes she could sample.\u00a0 I don’t think I’m flattering myself at all if I agree that I am pretty… Read More Give us this day …<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}