Baking is a positive experience. Theres the satisfaction that you get from filling your apartment with the smell of bread baking, and the self sufficiency of feeding yourself with food that you make. In this digital day and age of pressing keys and clicking mice, the tactile sensation of the baking process can also be an enormously relaxing and calming.

Making muffins isn’t as gay as it sounds. It only sounds gay because they’re called “muffins”.

My favorite site for baking is JoyOfBaking.com. The somewhat stupid sounding name belies the depth and quality of free recipes and mouth-watering food photos in this website.