Last August, I participated
in Potentially Problematic Opinions Month. Alex Neill is basically my biggest
blogging inspiration, and she's really good at things, so when she tells you to
write something, you probably should. Last year, she was like 'write about your
controversial opinions' and not only did I enjoy it immensely, I also wrote a bunch of blogs that took little to no effort to concoct AND got a bunch of
extra views (and readers maybe?). What I'm saying is, always do what Alex says.
This year, she said 'join
my blog carnival it's going to be great'. So here we are - at the blog
carnival.
Each week a bunch of
bloggers will write to a theme, the details of which live here.
The idea is basically that we'll all share and enjoy each other's blogs,
encourage each other to do the thing, and maybe write some good stuff while
we're at it.
For me, I'm really aiming
to write blogs that inspire my readers to do something and share it with me.
You don't have to blog, but I'd love to hear about your experiences, see your
photos and generally share this month with you. To facilitate this (and to make
my life simple, double win), I'll probably be choosing reeeeally easy ideas for
us all to get amongst.
This week's theme is
"Something That Makes Me Happy" and while I could've gone with big,
important things, I ended up making a bunch of muffins, and now I’m going to
blog about it.
First things first (I’m the
realest), I’m no food blogger. In order to be one of those I think you need a
few, important things. Firstly, you need to have good food presentation skills.
Next, you need a clean kitchen. Finally, you need to write your own recipes. I
don’t do any of these things. In fact, I’m not even that good at cooking.
But shit man, baking makes
me so damn happy.
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| Step 1: Put all the ingredients out in a fancy way. Step 2: Move them all again so you can actually bake. |
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| See, this is why I'm not a food blogger. |
So today I made banana choc-chip muffins. They are made of deliciousness and wholemeal flour.
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| Also sugar. |
I tried to pretend like this is an actually fancy, pretty process...
But in reality this is what it looks like when I'm in my happy place...
So that’s what makes me
happy. What makes you happy?
If you think baking might
make you happy, why not give it a go this week and share the results? I’d love
to see what you guys come up with. Feel free to use one of the recipes below if
you would like.
I’m not particularly
adventurous; I tend to make the same things over and over. But there is a
certain comfort in doing this. At the moment, I tend to cycle between making
these things:
Anzac biscuits (recipe is
hand-written out of my dad’s cook book, soz)
Banana-choc wholemealmuffins (today's happiness fodder)
Banana bread and
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| I ate one just before and it was amazing. |
