Holiday Baking

[ricevermicelli]

I have spent today coating truffles with chocolate. To say that it hasn't gone well would be to understate the case. I am wondering if I really love my friends and family this much - if I have ever, or will ever in my lifetime love anyone this much. I'm pretty sure I haven't, and if I had, I could stop. It is at moments like this that I feel the pull of my husband's brand of atheism. Had I been raised Jewish, and then rejected G-d altogether, I too could be spared the delusion that it might be fun to give people handmade gifts at some winter holiday.

As a complement to these frustrations, Hotspur has been grouchy all day. She has been grouchy in two kinds of baby carriers, her crib, and my arms. She's not all that into eating. I left her on the kitchen floor for a while, and you'd have thought I had abandoned her on the Spartan hillside. Her toy dog was about to eat her entrails. She will be on the porch in the cardboard box labeled "Free to Good Home."

Comments

[ukelele.livejournal.com]

You know, worst case, you still have chocolate. I bet your recipients won't be picky about that.

[fraterrisus]

Chocolate powder or melted chocolate? I've had good results in the past with the former, just by putting some powder in a Ziplock, dropping in a couple of truffles at a time, and shaking.

If the latter, I wish you the best of luck :/

[zathrus.livejournal.com]

*hugs* I'm pretty sure I wouldn't love my friends and family that much in your circumstances, either. Come to that, I'm pretty sure I don't love them that much in my current circumstances. And I'm not subscribing to any brand of atheism. (My mom is hinting for biscotti. She might get it. Maybe. And biscotti is way easier than truffles.)

Tomorrow will be another day, a different day, perhaps (we hope) a better day. Perchance it may even include a happy, sunshiny baby who is content to watch you dip things in chocolate, and not a grouchy one. But if it doesn't, I'm sure that any friends or family who deserve to be recipients of your baking will understand any resulting lack.

Newt

[kitmf.livejournal.com]

My assembled male relatives staged a sock intervention last year - no other gift is acceptable, only hand knit socks. I am currently on pair four. Long, long way to go.

[dancingwolfgrrl.livejournal.com]

Dipping truffles in melted chocolate is one of a small number of culinary operations that I find intimidating, so selfishly, I am somewhat reassured to know it isn't only my puny kitchen powers it thwarts. Still, I'm sorry it thwarted you!

I hope your daughter returns to being calm-albeit-noisy baby post haste.