![]() ![]() So, I actually can’t take credit for this idea at all. Only – sike! – my pants no longer have buttons because I look like I swallowed a watermelon and am therefore a newly converted believer in jeggings (“maternity jeans”, whatever), and the combination of stretchy pants and third-trimester pregnancy make eating raw cookie dough to your heart’s content totally socially acceptable! Actually, in my world, it’s always socially acceptable, but when you can’t drink wine and miss your awesome neighbors, it’s more encouraged than acceptable, wouldn’t you say?Īnyway, where was I going with this? Oh yes. Also, I probably shouldn’t be mainlining wine right now, but I can eat cookie dough until my pant buttons pop off. We’ll probably drown our sorrows in a vat of raw cookie dough because, frankly, the outgoing neighbors have the best taste in wine of anyone in the house and we’d never insult them by switching to the cheap stuff the minute they’re out the door. ![]() We’ll miss our neighbors horribly, but as soon as I emerge from the haze of depression and abandonment issues that their departure will inevitable cause, I’m grateful that I’ll have a house full of amazing neighbors to commiserate with. So that’s what I’ll be doing this weekend. I wouldn’t trade them for anything, but unfortunately, sometimes, we don’t have a choice: two of them are, for reasons inexplicable to me in the humidity and Zika-riddled-mosquito-infested dog days of summer, moving to Florida soon and, even though no one signed off on this development either, we are nonetheless duty-bound to give them the send off of all send offs. Or, at least they would be that last thing, if it weren’t a designation I just made up on the spot (betcha couldn’t tell…). Whether through the luck of proximity or simply baking fate, they are all hungry and receptive taste testers, recipe makers, and idea-comer-upers-with. Aside from the fact that they’re all, miraculously (because it’s a condo, not a co-op, so existing owners have no sign off on who buys in to the building) friendly, nice, awesome people, they are all so supportive of A Clean Bake. She is a graduate of the University of Central Florida, where she studied anthropology and humanities and cultural studies.I don’t mean to brag, but I have THE BEST neighbors. Lauren is a food photographer and recipe developer originally from southwest Florida, currently living in Boston, MA.
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