Impulsive, Spontaneous, or Just Plain Yummy! And a shift in Paradgm.

At 3:55 pm I posted this on my facebook:

"Impulse of the moment: make a half batch of Rice Krispy Treats to satisfy my sugar hankering/ hunger/ desire to show Elizabeth what Rice Krispy treats are and that they're good. Here's our family recipe: http://donnasrecipebox.blogspot.com/2011/07/rice-chex-krispy-treats.html

Of course, while I'm on fb writing about this, and finding the recipe, Elizabeth is going after the M&M's, which is what she really wanted."

At 4:25 pm I finished consuming some very yummy squares of this:


And by 4:45 pm I have most of my cooking mess and chocolate covered little girl mess cleaned up; blog post half done, sugar stabilizing snack consumed and pictures from my phone up loaded to me computer!
All in less than an hours work =D


So, this brings on a paradigm shift that's been in the works for a while now.
You see growing up I lived in a house with 8 other people with sweet toothes, as well as the family rule that if you cooked in the kitchen you had to start with a clean kitchen and end with a clean kitchen (really the first of those was more of just a cleanly habit that facilitated the second, which was the actually rule).
So, if you wanted to make a treat and actually have enough to enjoy it more than .30 minutes, than you had 2 options:

1. Make a family sized batch, or even double batch, or
2. Make it when no one else was around so you could clean up the evidence and have it all to yourself... until someone found your stash that is, or unless you paid off the parental authorities that were almost sure to be around when you made it in the first place.
I rarely did the second of these (although I know my sister used this strategy many a time), which means that I usually just cooked a big batch, which is honestly how I did almost all of my cooking because someone else was sure to be hungry too, or I liked having left overs.

Anyways, cooking in large portions has two potential draw backs; it tends to take a lot of time (especially if you're cleaning the kitchen too) and you end up with a lot of whatever you make. Now, the second one of these is usually a plus, but in marriage when there has mainly just been the two of us, having lots of treats that make us feel sugared out tends to be a negative; and in my current pregnancy, left overs tend to equate to waste, because I'm having a hard enough time with food as it is that I rarely serve left overs to Alan and rarely eat them my self (unless I REALLY liked it when I first made it).

So, these two things: lots of time, and too much sugar around (among a few others that I'm not going to go into in this post), has really put a damper on me making treats as much as my sweet tooth/ social programming would normally dictate. But it has recently come into my paradigm that I don't have to make large batches anymore when making a treat! And now that I have actually tried this out and tasted the joy of a half batch dessert, I am wondering how this is going to impact the future of my dessert making...?
Honestly, I foresee that I will probably make more desserts than before, but not too many more, at least not if the other factors involved affect things like I imagine they will.
All in all I like this idea of being able to make more desserts.... Bring on the fresh baked Apple Pie! =D.