Said attractive men....and me??

Suddenly, it came to me. 
Even though this blog is a journal of my baking career, it doesnt mean I can ONLY write about baking! Right?
So I will now start writing about my observations on life.
Which includes everything from the attractive men I see to the new, and amazing vase I just got for my apartment.
First, the attractive men.  Ive been noticing a trend lately.  Every time I spot a guy who's even remotely attractive...or not even attractive at all, he's taken.  Story of my life:  Me thinking, "Ooo look, incoming attractive man."  Said attractive man immediately walks over into the waiting arms of some, unknown woman.  Me thinking again, "Why??" 
My conclusion?  It must be summer again.  Love is in the air.
So what about me and other currently single women like me?  It got me thinking as I sat on a park bench and watched the couples of every shape and size stroll blissfully by...
Well, it got me thinking, but I still have no answer. 
    
I guess life goes on... 
Ok, since I still have had no brilliant answer to the above question, Ill move on to beforementioned vase...or "vahhhh-z" for those of you who prefer to say it that way. 
Vase:  clear glass, 1 1/2 feet tall.....breathtakingly beautiful...and all mine.  For now anyways.  And unless I manage to break it.  That would be just my luck.
  
It is just the thing to bring some life to my tiny, bare, German apartment.  Currently, it's empty though. 
Note to self: pick flowers.

Umm...yeah, I think that's about the end of my random observations on life.  For now.
Tune in again if you happen to find my ramblings on about nothing...well, not nothing because attractive men are a very important aspect of life...

Apples, Zimt, H2O...

Well every day recently, Ive looked out my kitchen window to the orchard, and seen the dozens of green apples laying, unused, on the ground.  Also, every day I have told myself that I was going to make applesauce.  So, today Im actually going to do it.  On a cold rainy day like today, nothing sounds better than warm applesauce with a sprinkle of zimt (or cinnamon, for you English speakers) and a cup of tea.  Wonderful.  Oh and a good book of course. 

Clouds, Rain, Baking?

So today I finally have a day off...  Ive been working for a week with no time off.  And its cloudy and rainy outside.  Im thinking Im going to do some baking.  I have eggs in the fridge that need to be used, so I got on Allrecipes.com and looked for quick and easy recipes with eggs.  I found a recipe for Popovers.  I have never heard of popovers until today.  But at the moment Im about dying of starvation, and its nasty weather outside, so fresh, hot bread is sounding pretty darn good.  The tasty goodness of soft warm bread with maybe a bit of butter and cinnamon (or 'zimt' as its called here) and sugar is unbeatable on a day like today.  Heres some pictures of what Im going to try:
     
Hungry yet?  Yeah me too...
Ok, my stomach currently feels like a huge empty hole, so Im off to make some bread! 

Design, design, design?

So now you might say I have several personal variations of bread under my belt.  I have played around with new ingredients and such to come up with some, if I do say so myself, pretty amazing breads... So now what?  Now where do I go?  I need a release for my creativity...So I am thinking, design.  By that I mean, how to I design the bread to look amazing, instead of just tasting amazing.  What can I do with the top of the bread to make it appealing?  So here are some of my ideas...what do you think?

Without the eggs on this one...

This dream I have...

Well from the 'About Me' section, you know already that I love to bake.  I always have, ever since I started baking with my mom at about age 4.  I love to work with dough and figure out new combinations that are taste amazing.  Ive always played around with the idea of starting a bakery of my own someday, but I never had a definite direction I wanted to take with it.  So for years it's just been an idea that passes through my mind every once in a while.  But, now that I have been working in Germany as a chef assistant, I have realized just how much I would love to have my own place to bake for others and share good bread and unique creations.  One day, a few weeks ago, I was making pita bread, the way my mom taught me, and the way she was taught by a friend from Jordan, and it dawned on me that I could combine my love for baking with my love for travels and other cultures.  My vision for my bakery would be a place where people can come and get healthy, all-natural, from scratch bread that is not found in your normal supermarket.  It would also be a place for community.  It would be a place where diversity is celebrated and where people can enjoy other cultures through good bread.  Also, because I always do my best to eat as healthy as possible (except of course for when I must give in to my nagging sweet tooth), I would make all my bread healthy, but not boring.  So many people do not eat healthy breads because to them, healthy breads are dark, tasteless, and down-right not tasty.  This will not be true of my breads...  Because I am vegetarian, I would include vegan and vegetarian breads as well...
So this is my idea...I would love to hear your ideas and thoughts!  Would you go to a bakery like this?  I have never looked into the details of starting a business before, so with the economy, do you think it is possible?  Please help me out!  And continue to read as I share my journey around the world in search of good bread!

So this is how it starts...

So.  To start with I never, ever thought I would be doing this...writing a blog I mean.  Ive never been at all crazy about writing. Which is actually an understatement.  I actually hate writing, so I am still trying to figure out how I ended up here.  I do not even know how to make a blog.  I guess you are just supposed to write about yourself and your life is such a way that other people find it at least slightly entertaining.  In actuality, though, the lives of most bloggers are, I am assuming, just as boring and uninteresting as the lives of the readers.  But I am here, creating a blog, and am becoming more and more interested in how the whole thing actually works.  Will people really read my random ramblings about nothing?  Or will this page just sit, unveiwed, in the depths of cyberspace forever?  I will find out...