Some of you might be aware that I have been baking a little bundle of the non-edible variety!
Well as D-day draws near, (very very near), all I have wanted to do is bake! Yet another affirmation that nothing bad can come of baked goods.
Yesterday I craved some old fashioned chocolate chip biscuits, and while I was in the store gathering the few items i didn’t have in order to bake the ultimate chocolate chip biccie, i ran into an old friend. It was in that moment I realised how much I fit the typical streoetype of a “craving, rotund, waddling pregnant chick”. In her basket: aged parmesan, rocket, a good olive oil, and fresh pasta. In mine: 99% fat butter, belgian chocolate, and another block of Black and green’s organic chocolate just for good measure!
People SAY “bugger it, you deserve – do it while you can”….I bet that won’t be their opinion if I don’t manage to lose the flab before I venture into the world with bambino for the first time!
It has actually been lovely to take some time off, although my lovely pastry chef Sammie is still rocking it for the St Kilda and Abbotsford Markets each month.
Time at home, preparing a nest, has given me clarity, time to to muse through cook books, and dream of the next metamorphosis of Frank, Food & Me. It is only fitting that we rebirth in some way, as we welcome a new tiny little member to our baking hood!
I wonder if this little one will love cooking like its mum, or designing houses like its dad?!
So, I haven’t got any answers for you yet…but just to let you know I am ruminating on it…
Very reflective time pregnancy…
Enjoy Abbotsford Market spoils on 28th May, just in case I am mid birth and I don’t see you!
