BAKING April 30

Karla and I are fond of eating. If we have money, we spend it to eat or buy something that’s edible. That’s our piece of joy.

When I woke up, I immediately cleaned the house. I swept the floor, mopped it. When it floor dried up, I did it again just to make sure that when I walk on barefoot inside the house, the dust won’t color my soles black.

After doing so, I didn’t have anything to do anymore, so I decided to text Karla. The plan was she’ll be going to my apartment and we’ll help each other with the council tasks. But, after talking to her over the phone, I was persuaded to go to her house to bake cupcakes and make icing for it with her and her Lola Gay.

And so I took a bath, put my clothes on and off I go. When I arrived she had everything ready – ingredients, tools, etc. We mixed everything up, prepared them, and tossed it in the oven, and after a while, we took it out of it. It was a wonderful experience. The cupcakes tasted good even without the icing yet. We let it cool while we were cooking the icing. When it was done, we topped each cupcake with icing. They all looked yummy and amazing. We tasted it. It was good. It was what we wanted it to be – sweet but not too sweet, moist not dry, cooked but not overcooked!

It was not our (Karla and I) first time to bake and it was definitely not our first time to bake well. The first baking session we had together was the night before we went to Abe’s farm in Pampanga with Trish, Nella, and Beth who are three of our closest friends. We baked chocolate chip cookies that time. And I tell you, they were delicious.

With this experience, I figured, a couple or group of friends do not have to go out and spend a lot of money to watch movies or shop and dine just to simply get together. Sometimes, you just really have to be innovative and resourceful. Some flour, sugar, oil, and eggs can already be mixed to make good tasting pancakes.

Staying at home, cooking a meal and eating while having some good conversation is enough for a quality time. Or if you want, you can also try baking like we did.