When things are crazy busy, and I don't want to start a book that takes too much brain power. I look for a little bit of froth. Eat Cake by Jeanne Ray fits that bill perfectly!
Ruth has a son in college, a surly teenage daughter, a needy live-in mother and a hospital administrator husband, that is, until his job is eliminated by the new hospital corporation. Then he decides he'd like to restore boats for a living. And her traveling piano-player father breaks both his wrists and comes to live with them, which is awkward as his ex-wife HATES him. Are you feeling her stress yet? When Ruth gets stressed she bakes cakes, delicious, amazing, to-die-for cakes, and it is her cakes that save the day. It's a little bit predictable, but that's just what I need when my brain is too busy for complicated. Besides, it comes with the recipes included. Here is a great quote from the book. Read it, then go have a piece of cake...
"Cakes have gotten a bad rap. People equate virtue with turning down dessert. there is always one person at the table who holds up her hand when I serve the cake. No, really, I couldn't, she says, and then gives her flat stomach a conspiratorial little pat. Everyone who is pressing a fork into that first tender layer looks at the person who declined the plate, and they all think, That person is better than I am. That person has discipline. But that isn't a person with discipline, that is a person who has completely lost touch with joy. A slice of cake never made anybody fat. You don't eat the whole cake. You don't eat a cake every day of your life. You take the cake when it is offered because the cake is delicious. You have a slice of cake and what it reminds you of is someplace that's safe, uncomplicated, without stress. A cake is a party, a birthday, a wedding. A cake is what's served on the happiest days of your life."
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