i baked.

it's what i do...well. and i happen to enjoy it.

sometimes i watch nigella lawson. she's like, my hero. she's a beautiful, classy woman and i don't feel like such a freak because we both have the whole curves/bust thing going on. i watched her show the other week and she made buttermilk scones. this is relevant because i've had a hankering to make scones since moving in. what drew me to this specific recipe was the fact that it only calls for two teaspoons of sugar. i finally kicked my sugar addiction four weeks ago and i love not craving it anymore.

the scones turned out pretty good friday night. they're golden because i used a whipped egg on top before baking them in the oven.

and because of the low sugar content, i don't feel guilty eating them with black current jam either. however, the best way to eat them is with clotted cream, which sounds awful...but is truly amazing when topped along with sliced strawberries. but i had neither, so jam had to suffice. yum. most of them went into the freezer to join the zucchini bread i baked two weeks ago. i can be a baking machine when i want to be.

i had a lunch date after church today and i wanted to give some of the people who have welcomed me a little christmas gift. so, i baked...again last night. i made shortbread cookies to give away. my camera battery died just after my castle adventure mid-afternoon yesterday...so i relied on my blackberry for photos.

i don't know why i didn't take a picture of the finished product. i sampled two broken shortbreads, one with icing and one without. i could feel my blood sugar rising so i drank black coffee to cut the sweetness. then i couldn't get to sleep after that. i'm like a six year old. i need looking after.

here are the icing pots. i can never seem to get red icing to look, well...red. always comes out pink. and, i had no blue to deepen the colour. but, i did my best. and my new friends loved the cookies. done and done.