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Do you share your home made food or baked goods with neighbors, co-workers, friends, others for no reason? For helping you out? Because they shared produce out of their garden with you? You get the idea......
Yes - many times it is just too much for the two of us to each so we share It is part of my new diet plan, feed everyone else around me so they become bigger and I look like I went on a diet
I am also amazed how few people bake or cook from scratch any more so they appreciate the home baked goodness.
I like to bake, but I live alone and I don't need to be eating all of the baked goods by myself. I'll often bake something, save a few portions for myself, and take the rest to work or give it to friends or neighbors.
Yes and no. Oh come on, it's ME - you all KNOW I can't give a simple answer!
For veggies, not anymore. We used to back when we had a garden that actually produced something. We'd give the extra to friends - we really didn't have neighbors - and when they stopped speaking to us because we had given them too much produce (especially tomatoes one year), we started throwing them in the yard for the dog to chase. That dog loved tomatoes. She'd catch them on the fly, bite down, then leave it in the grass - she could do that for hours. Cucumbers she treated much like a stick and would bring them back. One year, we couldn't get RID of the darn things. I was almost afraid our FRIENDS would start bringing them back like the dog did. I miss that dog...
Now, we don't give ANY produce away - we still have a few plants (we've since moved and have some plants in planters on the deck) but there's nothing to give away or even for us to eat because the weasels get them. Well, I call them chipmunks, my husband says they're weasels. They attacked one of my three remaining tomatoes today while we were out - and the little jerks didn't even eat the whole thing! I give them bread, I give them sunflower seeds - but NOOOOOOOOO - they want my tomatoes!! I should just give them a head of lettuce, some croutons, and that bottle of Thousand Island dressing we never seem to finish - I mean really! Next they'll be wanting wine service or something.
Baked goods - yes, I used to do a lot of baking when my son was smaller and we always shared with the families of his friends. Now, since it's just the two of us, I do real baking once a year - around Christmas - and those platters (I make about a dozen different kinds of cookies and stuff) are Christmas gifts.
Except for spice cake. That is a story in and of itself which I will not bore you with. But they've been UPS'ed many, many places, and I am the go to person for spice cake for everyone we know, and who my mother knows, and her extended family, and friends, and suffice it to say I will never, ever, EVER probably ever eat spice cake again. I don't even need the recipe anymore. I can make them in my sleep.
Do you share your home made food or baked goods with neighbors, co-workers, friends, others for no reason? For helping you out? Because they shared produce out of their garden with you? You get the idea......
We always share, that is why, when I can of bake I do so much. I am not getting ready to do more pickles, so I can give them away. If the fall I make 6 or 7 friendship breads and keep them frozen, until I have some reason to share them. In a few weeks I am going to do some flavored liquiors to give to my bridge friends at Christmas and when someone gives me a canning jar, I usually give one back to them with something it.
Yes -- like the title character in Mr. Frost, I love to cook and bake but my appetite is small, so it's either share or toss out a lot of what I make.
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It is part of my new diet plan, feed everyone else around me so they become bigger and I look like I went on a diet
