Tuesday, February 10, 2009

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I love to cook, and my favorite fantasy is about competing on Top Chef (I’m not at all that good; this is a fantasy). But I’ve never been successful at baking. I guess because baking is so precise, in measurements of ingredients and time, unlike cooking where I tweak and improvise to my heart’s content.

Still, there must be something of a pastry chef manqué inside me, because every time I change Baby A’s diaper, dusting her bottom with cornstarch makes me feel like I’m giving a cake a final dusting of powdered sugar and when I draw a precise line of diaper cream in her diaper, I feel as though I’m frosting some impossibly dainty patisserie.

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2 comments:

Blue said...

I would be remiss if I did not link to this SNL commercial for edible diapers: http://www.hulu.com/watch/55587/saturday-night-live-pampers#s-p1-st-i3

Anonymous said...

You have quite the imagination!

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