LIZZIE…Just in case anyone was wondering…yes! I can cook! In fact, yesterday I invented an omelette with green onions, yellow pepper and our own hens’ eggs with cheese and a bit of breadcrumbs sprinkled on top. Not sure why I thought of the breadcrumbs, but it worked out great. In fact, it was a perfect looking omelette, and my mom ran off to get her camera but I ate it before she could take a good picture.

Mostly, though, I bake. It started when my mom got me an Easy Bake Oven when I was 6. It’s this little plastic toy oven that makes one cookie at a time from a mix that requires a tablespoon of water. It took like an hour to bake. I think the “oven” was just a light bulb or something. Later, when I was older, like 10, I graduated to making brownies and cakes from boxes. This required new knowledge, like how to crack an egg and how to use measuring cups. Pretty soon, this was no longer challenging.

Now, and really for quite a while, I’ve been baking from scratch. My aunts gave me this old Betty Crocker cookie recipe book that used to be my grandma’s and there’s an excellent snickerdoodles recipe in it that I’ve made even better. There’s also this chocolate crinkles cookie that looks, and is, amazing. You know how some people have a sweet tooth? Well, I have sweet teeth. Like a whole mouth of them. I would bake every day, I think, but my mom hates having brownies and cookies in the house all the time. “They’re so good, they’re deadly,” is what she says.

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