I'll bring dessert

I really like to make desserts.  I like to cook as well and am always on the lookout for new vegetarian recipes, but that is something I have to do to eat good food.  Making a dessert is different.  It is not really practical or necessary to make a pie, tart, or cookies, but man is it more fun for me than making a tofu stir fry.  


I feel this way for a few reasons... 

1.  I love desserts and most things containing a combination of butter and sugar (I'm not alone in admitting this I hope.)
2.  People seem genuinely happy when you provide them with a dessert
3.  It is fun to make something rich and unhealthy and frivolous since most of the things I make as meals are very much the opposite.

My 84 year old Nana is a baker like you have never seen before.  She is also just an amazing all around comfort food extraordinaire in the kitchen. This has always provided a great opposite to my vegetarian ways since her version of veggies would never be without butter and cheese.  Over the past few years, I have been learning her baking tricks. I have always taken pie (her specialty) for granted since I have been supplied with her pies my whole life.  But since I started making them myself, I have seen the power of being the dessert provider. 


I have noticed that people love getting sweet stuff that they "shouldn't be eating."  If I wasn't teaching kids all day I would even be cool enough to make people a pie for no reason and show up all "surprise I made you a pie, just because" style.  But until I have that kind of time, energy, and sugar supply, I'm always happy to whip up something for the next event on the calendar.  Oh, and did I mention that getting to eat some myself is the other reason I will always be happy to make dessert?