Food + Friends = Happy Alex

[xela]

Brunch today want wonderfully! My friends are all brilliant and wonderful conversationalists and funny and like my cooking! Several people complimented the scones, which I was a little uncertain of as I was making them: It had been something over five years since I last made them. Since I'm a geek, my recipe was pretty thorough, but there were still a couple of moments where I felt a little at sea. Why are the dry ingredients still roughly the consistency of flour after I chopped the butter in? Scratch head. Look at recipe again. Start to slap forehead. Stop before getting flour all over my face. "a cup of butter, not a cube of butter...." Fortunately caught in time to make it right. (And I now have a revised version of the recipe using standard units.)

There were only two downsides, neither exactly earth-shattering. I joked with some of the guests about one of them: "What on earth possessed me to decide to bake something, for the first time in years, in August?" (Today's high was 36C.) The other I didn't find out about until after: several people who don't yet know where I live now sent me mail late last night or this morning saying they wanted to come, and I didn't think to check email until after everyone left. Oh well; next time I host a brunch, checking email will be on my checklist.

And there will be a next time, and it will be soon. I remembered today why I used to do this every month. And while I'm not quite willing to make that much of a commitment at this point, I do plan to start holding regular brunches. Probably every other month; details to follow....

Thanks to everyone who came; you were great!

Comments

[danj17.livejournal.com]

you're in america, man... grams are not standard units!!

seriously, sorry i missed it. i just suck. that's all there is to it, really.....

[yakshaver.livejournal.com]

I have no patience with this particular bit of American exceptionalism. I've spent most of my adult life trying to gain an intuitive sense of metric measurements, and still haven't gotten there.

I'm sorry you didn't make it. But I will definitely be doing it again soon.