Welcome to my new blog! Have a cookie!

I moved out for the first time around three weeks ago. Since then, I have baked about four batches of chocolate chip cookies, meringue-topped cookie bars, a wild-berry cake, a spiced peach pie, a banana cream pie, Swedish cardamom cookies, meringue cookies, lemon curd sandwich tea cookies, two loaves of banana bread, and ginger candy.

When the parents said I could have our old standing mixer, I'm sure they had no idea what it would end up going through.

Cooking and baking is my new favorite therapy. I shudder to think of the amount of money I've spent on flour, sugar, and butter already. The ideal outcome of all this is that I become the kind of cook who can tell when a recipe has too much of one thing or another and can tweak and improvise and maybe even someday invent. To do that, though, I have to know what I choose to do different each time, so this blog is going to be where I keep track of stuff like that! It's also where I'll show off my creations and vent about whatever went wrong this time around. So, yay!