When I started food blogging, I never realized how many times a week I would find myself at the grocery store. Even with being, what I have been told is, the luckiest woman alive and having my husband doing a good chunk of the grocery shopping, I would say that I am still there a good three to four times a week. No, I’m not kidding.
This wouldn’t be such a big deal, except for two small details: The three year old and 10 month old who usually get carted there with me. Or worse! The third detail who is quite a bit bigger, but also has a bigger complaining voice and tends to sprinkle our shopping trips with casual comments like, “Couldn’t you have done this while I was at school,” as I resist the urge to strangle him next to the produce.
The other night I went grocery shopping by myself, which honestly, was a tiny bit like vacation. I had literally just pulled out of the parking lot and remembered no less than three things that I forgot to get. And as I’m typing this, I’m wondering why I didn’t just turn around and go back . . . The problem is that I am forever and constantly thinking of recipes. I will be giving the girls a bath and suddenly think of a bark recipe that I have.to.make. Now. Or I’m doing dishes and suddenly a frosting recipe that just has to be part of my life pops into my head. Or I’m helping Gavin with his homework and think up a new cocktail recipe that just sounds like heaven.
So I go back to the grocery store. And on the way home, I think about a pizza recipe that would be really awesome if only I had . . . But what is there really to complain about? I work in my pajamas, get to be at home with my kids, and “work” is making a mug cake eight times until I get it right. I’ll take a few grocery runs a week for that any day. Wait. Did that even make sense?
Anyway, I’m totally serious. Eight times with this cake. Fortunately, I had all of the ingredients on hand and it doesn’t use much of them, so there weren’t any grocery runs because of this little baby. In this delicious mug cake I decided to use chocolate chips because it makes it oh so fudgey and did a method of melting them with the milk and caramel before adding everything else. This mug cake is SO good, great for a late night chocolate craving, and kind of mind blowing when you let vanilla ice cream melt over it.
