let there be cake
I should not be sharing a cake recipe with you today, this second Monday of January. Or on any day in January, for that matter.
January, according to the food magazines that have arrived in my mailbox, is a month for dietary restraint. A whole cadre of food blogs and cooking sites – and Pinterest, for goodness sake – agree. This first month of the year is the month for salads and for kale (though, it always seems to be the month for kale), for quinoa and farro, for lean proteins and grapefruit and cauliflower. It is the month for food cleanses and for juicing and for detoxing. January is the month we should be cutting calories, curtailing portion sizes, and shedding the Thanksgiving-Christmas-New Year’s Eve-weight gain.
Let me reassure you: I’m entirely okay with healthy eating. In fact, I prefer to eat healthy most days of the week.
