| Tricking The Wife Into Baking Will Only Get You Burned |
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This Wife Sure Can Cook...She Just Won't!
Ray Martin loves his wife Sandra, and loves her baking even more. Ray's problem is that he has no skill in the kitchen himself. He is infatuated with his wife's tasty desserts, but Sandra is only motivated to bake when she needs a distraction from the unsettling events in her life. She just won't bake when she's happy--which is most of the time. But last month, Sandra whipped up a batch of her famous oatmeal raisin cookies after she found out her sister had taken a nasty fall down a set of stairs, and four months ago she baked three delicious caramel-apple pies after learning her father had contracted type-2 diabetes. Every one of Sandra's creations is mouth-watering and delicious, but unless there is something tragic occuring in her life, Sandra won't take the time to toast up a Pop-Tart. However, Ray found a way to get Sandra to bake a little more often, by accident really. After casually mentioning a news story about three kittens being euthanized at a local animal shelter, Sandra ran weeping to the kitchen and baked up an amazing lemon-pineapple cake (complete with frosting). A week after that, Ray "accidentally" left the television on CNN, and Sandra learned of the latest disaster in Indonesia. She spent the entire day baking chocolate raspberry scones. But there were limits to reading the sad and depressing news in order to jump-start Sandra's kitchen creativity. Ray's throat gets sore quickly, and Sandra has told him more than once to stop reading "all that sad stuff." Although, as soon as he mentioned his sore throat, she made a mouth-watering pumpkin cheesecake, complete with a tasty hand-whipped topping. Soon after that, Ray discovered many new aches and pains, and made sure his wife is aware of his aging and hurting body. Although there were more cookies, cakes, and struedels on the kitchen counter, Ray is hesitant to do anything too drastic to get Sandra to bake the really good stuff. But soon Sandra started stressing less over the sad news and the baking ceased again, much to Ray's disappoinment. So Ray, tired of eating store-bought cookies, and desperate for a fresh-baked muffin, tart, or cupcake, casually mentioned something about having an affair (not true, of course) hoping that Sandra would create something spectacular, like cherries jubilee or a peach flan. He thought that his cunning culinary plan would let him have his cake and eat it too--he just didn't think he'd be eating it through a straw.
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