On A Whim

[Tilly2]

I have just baked a ginger cake. I hate baking but I just had this idea about baking a cake. I know why I hate it so much. It's all the mess it creates.
Will not be doing that again for a long, long time.

[Old_Geezer]

Mess ? What mess ?

[Tilly2]

The mess

[birdwoman]

I baked some scones on Tuesday on a whim ... there were floury footprints on the stair carpet that day!

[Tilly2]

There you go!

[rockyracoon]

Why is it, that no matter how careful you are there's always flour on the kitchen floor?

[Old_Geezer]

Should make your cakes on the kitchen table !

[LyndaB]

Don't you have a sink? I bake most days and don't find it's a mess at all!

[gness]

I used to bake a lot, Tilly....for family and friends...charity stalls...you name it I baked for it.
Then when MrG died I realised that the kitchen didn't miraculously clean itself after my baking sessions......now I don't bake. Can't be doing with mess....x

[birdwoman]

Maybe if I baked more often I wouldn't make such a mess. But then I'd probably be 2 stone heavier :(

[yinyang]

I like a bit of mess in my kitchen, it's never 100% clean and tidy. There's a lot goes on in there - it's definitely the heart of the home. The results from baking and cooking are worth a bit of sweeping up.

That said, my daughter wants to make a chocolate cake unsupervised tomorrow and I suspect the mess from that might be beyond even my limits!

[murraymints]

Costco do a brilliant ginger cake

[Svejk]

Bound to make a mess if you baked it on a whim,tiffy. Get yerself a baking tin.(or whatever its called)

[Tilly2]

Tiffy? Are you thinking of tiffin, sweety?

[Tilly2]

It's the bowl and the spoons and the gungy mess they make in the washing up bowl. Yeuk!

[boxtops]

On a whim I made green tomato chutney last week - I ended up making it for my neighbour too, using her tomatoes.

[Tilly2]

It is good to do things on a whim. Strike while the iron's hot.

[boxtops]

Whim things are often more successful than preplanned stuff.

[cupid04]

Home made is so much better than shop bought cakes though, tilly!

[boxtops]

I wouldn't make cake, I'd eat it.

[Tilly2]

I just gave Mr Tilly a slice of the cake. He really liked it. He even knew it was a ginger cake. There you go.

Boxy, does green tomato chutney require chopped onions? I don't do chopped onions on a whim. I have to be forced to chop an onion.