Written October 29, 2024
Hello Dear Readers,
I want to make muffins today. My wife has an important company meeting on Thursday and has asked me to prepare some food for it. We had the Pumpkin puree from last year. Initially, I was to put nuts onto muffins; however, my wife said there were people with nut allergies. So, I thought I could use some pumpkin seeds instead. We bought the seeds to go with them because none were left from the pumpkin.
My wife sometimes asks me to bake for her. I like baking, but despite how much I want to, I don’t bake as much as I would like to. My wife does not have a taste for sweets as much. Besides, she is watching her weight vigorously, so any baking will disrupt her calorie restriction. She asked me to bake them for other people whenever she could.
My wife thinks that baking will have a therapeutic effect on my brain. Baking would bring smiles to other people and give me something I can do for others, which would make me happier. I usually get a recipe online. I love the part where I plan how to reproduce the bakery from the recipes.
This time, we settled on pumpkin muffins and apple pie, which would be a great choice. My wife’s company has some Japanese people unfamiliar with American Bakery. It is almost Thanksgiving day. Pumpkin and Apple are things I will think of around this time. Both of them represent the taste of autumn. Since I cannot bake pumpkin and apple pie, I decided to bake muffins today and apple pie tomorrow. I like this period. The weather is much better than that in summer. I love watching the colors on leave. It is so lovely outside now since all the leaves are turning yellow. I have a lot of good memories of this time.
Speaking of autumn and leaves, we have so many to vacuum. I had to vacuum more leaves today, but I think I got enough off our yard that I likely won’t have to do another round on Thursday. However, I’ll need to reevaluate the yard tomorrow since I don’t know when precisely the trees drop their leaves.
This week, we went to Extra Grocery to get some ingredients, such as apples, for the bakery. I am already very excited. Hopefully, they will turn out well and be enjoyed by her and her coworkers.