Back to baking!

I used to bake a lot. Despite my usual protests and grievances about baking, as baking is a precise art whereas cooking is a whole YOLO approach, I used to bake because I felt like we could always have more spinach quiche and chewy chocolate cookies in the world. That said, I stopped baking back in 2019, “coincidentally” with the time I started my job at Automattic, since the job occupied most of my time and energy. Fast forward to 2026, now I have a teenager and a pre-teen in the house, and anyone with teenagers growing up would know that the concept of the digestive system is nonexistent for them, as their whole being seems to consist of multiple black holes of the galaxies. RIP our grocery shopping budget. Hence: Baking. Homecooked meals and snacks. I (re)started with the easy ones: Peach cobbler. The recipe was from Khairul Aming, a Malaysian food content creator and businessperson. He is really famous in Malaysia with his “30 Hari 30 Resepi” (Thirty Days, Thirty Recipes) during…