high-bar baking

It’s comforting to know that the world can still be comforting. 

Every so often, I get a wild hair. To straighten my hair. Every once and a while translates to every five years or so, at this point in my life. I think, “I haven’t seen it straight in a long time, I wonder how it looks with this new haircut.” So I take an hour+ out of my day to see. 

And it looks nice. It does. Long and sleek and shiny. 

But it’s much nicer to know that it isn’t the fulfillment of all my dreams. It’s pretty. My hair’s normally pretty. It’s predominantly just different. And I don’t need to take an inordinate amount of my time and effort to make my hair a different kind of pretty. It’s comforting to know that I like my normal hair better. Often the world is not that way. 

The grass is the same amount of green (perhaps less, gasp!) but takes twice the amount of lawn care. No thanks, guys. 

I felt compelled to retry Sarah’s Chocolate Chip Cookie 2.0 recipe, after making her un-chocolate-chip riff on it a couple weeks ago. And it was good. The texture holds (if you don’t over bake them), and a CCC is always a delight. 

But I felt the same way about them as I do about my hair. They’re good, but their primary quality is difference. I like the recipes that I’ve already grown to love; they’re better. Lagerstrom and Claire know what they’re doing, and they topped my CCC bracket for a reason. 

I hope you find comfort in comfort sometime soon.