Honey, I'm Homemade

Today I made an apple pie. Not just an apple pie, but I made the crust from scratch, I picked a lemon from my neighbor's tree, and I hand peeled each apple with care. This is all when I decided that yes, I will open my own bakery. Future. Determined. This is what I'm good at. Waste $80,000 on trying to find myself in a big over- priced university? Nope, I'm pretty sure pastry school and some business classes will suffice for this little baker. Now, I've thought it over...I juggled journalism and baking as my top two life choices, but how fun would it be? Granted, the financial and legal matters will be a great responsibility, but I only pictured the positive so far because I can see it so vividly. Here's what will go down after pastry school and those business classes: I will hire a few people with experience who love and adore baking as much as I do. Then, I will lease a small corner shop in San Francisco (this is where it must be, says so my mind.) I will paint the walls a soothing color, put up curtains, and have two or three little tables and chairs set up inside. Now, the name of the bakery hasn't come to me yet, but I know what we'd sell. 1. PIE (all kinds. My specialties are apple, pecan, ice cream, chocolate cream, and Boston cream.) 2. COOKIES (chocolate chip, oatmeal, chocolate with peanut butter chips, chocolate chip oatmeal, oatmeal raisin, and scotcheroos) 3. CAKE (Texas sheet cake, chocolate cake, wacky cake, upside down fudge cake, carrot cake, lemon pound cake) 4. MUFFINS (you name it.) These will be the staples of the bakery, all family recipes. BUT, because I do love to experiment, I will have some different kind of pastry each week/month. Sounds good right? Of course, that little apartment I described in an earlier post will become my heaven as I try to pay it off with the money I make from my bakery. Even if I could afford a bigger place, I'd stay because me and the Italian Greyhound were content there. The bakery would be a short bike ride away. All my employees would be type B personalities so that I could keep my cool during hectic times. Everything about this idea screams FEED ME! And you know what? I think I will have a  piece of life's pie.