{"id":379608,"date":"2013-01-28T02:51:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-28T02:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.annahelizabeth.com\/index.php\/2013\/01\/28\/out-of-chaos-and-into-the-kitchen\/"},"modified":"2013-01-28T02:51:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-28T02:51:00","slug":"out-of-chaos-and-into-the-kitchen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.annahelizabeth.com\/index.php\/2013\/01\/28\/out-of-chaos-and-into-the-kitchen\/","title":{"rendered":"Out of Chaos and Into the Kitchen"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kitchen.<\/span><\/div>\n

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Cooking.<\/span><\/div>\n

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Baking.<\/span><\/div>\n

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Heaven.<\/span><\/div>\n

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This snowman cookie jar, a Christmas gift from the new mother who babysat my children fifteen years ago, has sat empty on my counter.<\/span><\/div>\n

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I\u2019ve been yearning to have a day to myself, one I could spend in the kitchen preparing whatever recipes moved me.<\/span><\/div>\n

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I spent yesterday morning baking bread and cookies.<\/span><\/div>\n

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One of the best kept secrets for banana bread is to use frozen fruit.<\/span><\/div>\n

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I toss my overripe bananas into the freezer throughout the year and am guaranteed the moistest loaves to be had.<\/span><\/div>\n

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After rummaging through the forever messy shelves, I decided that some organizing was in order.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Nothing like the smell (and taste!) of a fresh batch of warm baked goods to put a smile on your face.<\/span><\/div>\n
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And nothing like a neatly arranged stock area to satisfy the cook.<\/span><\/div>\n
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What about you? What moment(s) made you smile this week? Stirred a simple sense of happiness? Share it here and spread a smile or two.<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/i><\/div>\n

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Soon<\/span><\/i><\/a>\u2026<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/i><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kitchen. Cooking. Baking. Heaven. This snowman cookie jar, a Christmas gift from the new mother who babysat my children fifteen years ago, has sat empty on my counter. I\u2019ve been yearning to have a day to myself, one I could spend in the kitchen preparing whatever recipes moved me. I spent yesterday morning baking bread […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4247,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[316,753,754,755,575,756,317,757,162,758,638,320,366],"class_list":["post-379608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-happyhappens","tag-baking","tag-baking-cookies","tag-banana-bread","tag-cleaning","tag-cooking","tag-finding-happiness-in-your-day","tag-freezer","tag-happiness-happens","tag-kitchen","tag-organization","tag-random-happiness","tag-shit-happens"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/staging.annahelizabeth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Snowman-Cookie-Jar.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.annahelizabeth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.annahelizabeth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.annahelizabeth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.annahelizabeth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.annahelizabeth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.annahelizabeth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.annahelizabeth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.annahelizabeth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.annahelizabeth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.annahelizabeth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}