Breakfast

Alright, so you made the coffee kind of weak today, no sweat. Add hot chocolate mix. Instant mocha. Oh, how gourmet of you. Savour the ethicalness as you remember that it's a fair trade blend you're drinking.

From your window you can see the fog slowly lifting off the water. Give it a couple hours and it'll be windy, traffic making wake, bad for rowing.

The natural progression here is 2 cups flour, 1 1/4 cups sugar. Baking soda, but not from the one you've got open in the fridge. 2 tsp or so. Same goes for cinnamon.

Your joy at watching things get ground up in the food processor would make many people nervous if they only knew. Carrots, zuchinni, nuts, it's all the same. You need about 4-4 1/2 cups of any combination of the three, coconut, rasins and chopped apple.

People outside are sitting in traffic while you're inside, setting the oven to 350. Measuring out almost a cup of oil, a liberal splash of vanilla extract and three eggs. Brown, because they're cooler than white ones, though in the long scheme of things, they're pretty much the same.

When pouring the mixed up wet ingredients in on top, you have to remember not to mix too thoroughly. Your middle school home ec teacher used to caution you against this. Batter that is overmixed will give you Madonna boobs. You never understood what that meant, but it doesn't sound like something you'd want to eat.

Bake, eat, rejoyce.

Lick the bowl.