Why I Do What I Do

Even though I have already stated how much I enjoy cooking and baking, there are sometimes that I start a project and then wonder- half way through- "Why do I do this to myself?" For example, sometime last year I decided that it would be neat to make my own pasta- I picked ravioli. I made spinach ravioli with a butter sage sauce, all from scratch. I remember of getting about halfway through this process and wanting to shoot myself in the head! I was starting to feel like that last night. We have friends visiting us from Rhode Island, and I thought that it would be nice to have sticky buns for breakfast in the morning. But of coarse, because of the way I am, I wanted to make these sticky buns, not buy them. So at 9 o'clock- at night, I started the labor intensive process of making sticky buns from scratch. All was going well, until about 11 pm, and my dough still wasn't "doubled in size". Frustrating. By this point I just wanted to go to bed, and was kicking myself for thinking that I wanted to make sticky buns from scratch, when I could just go to the store a mile up the road and buy them! But, this morning, as we all bit into the warm, goo oozing cinnamon sticky buns, the frustration of last night quickly disappeared, and was replaced by the aroma of cinnamon through out our apartment. The satisfaction that I received from watching our guest enjoy the morning treat is something that I can't put into words- it is just that- satisfying.

ps I have been working on this post for the last two days.... thanks Matthan

pss- where I got the recipe- http://simplyrecipes.com/recipes/cinnamon_sticky_buns/