This damn snow has turned me into quite the homemaker. I made a yellow cake and frosting from scratch. The hardest part, by far, was creaming the butter and sugar. The cake came out pretty well. It’s not crazy dry or anything but it isn’t very sweet. The frosting, which is just butter and sugar and vanilla, is sweet. I’d call it a success. The fruit filling in there is strawberry preserves from Faith Farms we got at the farmer’s market.

This all ties into something I heard Michael Pollan say when asked if he ever ate “junk food”. The gist of his answer was, “sure, but I make all of my junk food. It takes a good amount of work to make a cake from scratch or to make fresh french fries so I always feel like I earned it. And because I don’t always have the time to do that work I don’t have that stuff very often.” I really like that idea.