Excuses

Jen cooks real food, I do not.

Apparently that makes me a little weird for a variety of reasons, but I just can't make myself toss healthy ingredients into a pan or get excited about cooking real food.

Baking, on the other hand, is awesome. Somewhere between spilling flour on the floor, teasing the dogs with spatulas, and obsessing over measurements, I find myself having fun. I get no such pay off with cooking, and I rarely make an effort while tossing together a dinner.

Jen has a variety of excuses for baking less than cooking, so I am always trying to find reasons to give up real food and give in to the cookie.

Her reasons:

- baking makes you fat if baked goods stay in the house

- professionally inappropriate to constantly bring baked goods to the office

- she does not like candy and sugar and ridiculous fatty-ness as much as I do.



I believe that Jen could easily feed the squirrels in the park a large variety of baked goods, or she could abandon baked goods in the common areas of her condo building. Apparently these ideas are not good enough... I'm still searching.