Thanks for the compliments. Basically, I am pretty poor and can't go out all the time, and living alone, so spending a lot of time in the apartment by myself. As a result I am in need of things to do to keep me entertained (TV and Netflix only keep me for so long, in all honesty, and same with the internet). So I have started cooking as a way to use time and entertain myself, not to mention save money. (I am also reading more, and bought another paint-by-numbers kit, so in a Pubski or two you will see my latest painting.) I may also take up knitting again. And I have a veritable pile of wine corks which I want to repurpose into household things, but I'm being held up by a lack of x-acto knife and hot glue gun. All in good time. When February starts I'll pick up running again which will help burn more time too.

I find that while I enjoy many pastimes, I don't enjoy plunking 5 or 6 hours into a single hobby every day, so I need a few to keep me going.

Since you are enjoying my food posts, here is a bonus. I decided the soup needed rolls to go with it. Both sets of rolls are made following the same recipe. However, the yeast from the upper set did not proof properly, and boy, what a difference did it make:

Although I have not done much recipe-based cooking in my time (I have a few standards I repeat and vary over and over again, but otherwise have just thrown things together and made edible things) I used to be quite the baker. One thing I was looking forward to when moving to this apartment was being able to bake again (I generally avoid cooking or making more complex or 'nice' foodgoods if I am living somewhere where I find the kitchen not up to standard).