Baking Adventures Through Uncertainty A Professional Baker's Culinary Journal

I am a healthcare person who has "dabbled" in cooking to feed my four kids and husband through the years and has collected, donated, purchased more and more cookbooks than one can ever need, through the years. Now that the kids are leaving the house, we are packing up and moving into a smaller house and I need to decide what stays and what goes.

When most of us were laid off from our professions during the start of the pandemic, I thought that I could finally clean my house and rid the clutter and donate. That didn't happen as I realized that I needed to be out of the house to mentally function as I was spiraling down quickly. Being a healthcare worker, this was the first time that I was ever laid off from a job and was told that I was "customer service".

I found myself working happily behind the front counter of a bakery inside a local grocery store and I was so happy. Not because of the management; but, I liked to make people smile when I handed them treats and I enjoyed the interactions with the customers.

This led me to becoming a student at a pastry school and I have never been happier. However, being a baker has led me to a lot of baking failures and questioning the steps/processes in recipes, questioning myself, daydreaming when I should have been thinking of the correct steps rather than relying whole-heartedly on a recipe...

This is why I am creating this blog. I want to finally decide what cookbooks to keep, learn to be intuitive with all recipes and not just rely on the recipe (since many leave out important details!) and have fun along the way.

Please come with me on my journey. Remember that these recipes may or may not have been correctly made as the recipe creator wanted: it is my poorly read interpretation of the recipe but I did try my best. Also my reviews are just my opinion of the recipe and the book and you may like the recipe/book better than me. What I write is my opinion only!