The school holidays are almost done and dusted as are my food cupboards. It's fair to say that they are empty, apart from a tin of lentils, some olives and a jar of random homemade jam. My children have tasted a little too much freedom and have a wind swept wayward look verging on feral, they go to bed whenever, wake up whenever and eat whatever they can find. However, the foraging came to an end today, the gravy train had left the station. They were hungry, starving, begging for food and well, there was none to be had. Ingenuity was needed, quick thinking was necessary, these children were going to eat me alive.
I reached for the very dusty, not been touched in awhile cook book and got rather ravenous myself looking at the pictures. One thing led to another and I decided that no, I would not be making the usual banana muffins that would only take five minutes, no, I decided to be extra kind and make sticky buns. By name they are a simple thing but in creation they are anything but. Technique was required which I don't have and time, which I try to cram a lot into, was needed. So it is fair to say that this was (for me at least) an extreme act of kindness never seen before in my household. I had to knead for goodness sake and rest the lump of stuff for a whole hour then roll it, fill it and then (now this almost broke me) I had to rest it again! The kids asked me every two minutes if they were ready, there was flour everywhere and the rolling pin was nowhere to be found (do we actually own one?). But the result was a wonderful sticky goodness and as the kids so eloquently put it, 'Yum as!!' Kindness #9….Extreme baking.
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