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black forest cake (half naked bc i didnt have enough chocolate for the top)
anyway. look at my fucking carrot cake
(candied carrots, roasted walnuts, ginger orange cream cheese icing <3)
LOPSTAH ‼️
matcha cookies yay 🥳
I know no one follows me for my cooking/baking but im so proud of this so idc
so many beautiful baking posts on my dash, I just have to write a follow up to my long ass baking meta .... the only real baking updates we have gotten are in 8x13 and 8x16 but lets start with the chicken and rice casserole
so in my last post to summarize, basically in 8x07 you see that buck is kind of baking everything. sweet, savoury, meals, treats. and also he doesn't know what pond to jump back into. but by the end of 8x08 it seems like he is sticking to baked goods, and specifically is delivering them to eddie. so kind of I think the variation is a loose bisexuality metaphor, and baked goods are men/eddie. but interestingly, in this scene, buck is baking a meal again. and specifically I want to draw attention to the cook book here
you quite literally dump everything into one dish and wait while the oven does the rest. (waiting is the hardest part!)
and then you have the added aspect of how, in this scene, eddie is describing a slow cooker meal that is 7.5 hours done but is supposed to take 8 hours to cook. which I know several people have pointed out they think is a buddie canon metaphor. so we have buck baking something (a meal) that we only used to see him bake when he was figuring things out about moving on from tommy, in a scene where eddie suggests metaphorically that he might be starting to figure things out soon as well... mind you this is all with the back drop of them literally being on a cooking dinner together facetime date. :)
then the second facetime scene in this episode. which literally several baking things worth pointing out here... firstly lets all remember that the last time buck was baking before this was in 8x11, when he was baking banana bread for jee-yun (who is the placeholder special person for buck, per 8x07). and this facetime scene opens not only with a call back to that scene via eddie having a picture of buck baking in that scene as his screensaver but also he is propping his phone up on a bowl of fruit/bananas. and lets all remember thats the in love with eddie? 🙂 scene. okay. okayyyyy. not to mention right beside buck there is also packages of muffins and some other treat (donut holes I think? but unclear). so in the first scene eddie is about to figure things out, and in the next scene we get several call backs to the closest buck has been to figuring out/admitting his feelings for eddie. right. and then also in this scene buck is asking eddie if he knows hen's favorite pie. its once again buck baking as an expression of love. and specifically hes asking eddie, who we know buck thinks is awesome and all knowing. but I think the really interesting part is that he never ends up making a pie for hen. instead, he does indefinite yard work for her. so once again, the baking at this point stays between eddie and buck (and jee, who is an eddie place holder)
finally, the 8x16 scene. eddie is indulging in another buck baked good. he doesnt even know what it is, just buck making it was enough for him :) and just walks in there and takes the baking, that was waiting for him in the kitchen. and notably, he asks ravi if he wants some, and ravi says no. so thats maddie, chim, ravi, and maybe hen who have all rejected his baking in some way. eddie and jee-yun are the only ones who indulge in it, and jee-yun is supposed to be an eddie placeholder and also is like 4 years old. the baking is an explicit expression of buck and eddie's feelings for each other which makes me want to cry. buck's baking is filled with love for eddie. and eddie accepts and cherishes it every time buck gives it to him. and its something thats just for them.
anyway. buck and eddie baking together soon I hope...
RAAAAAAAH THEY CAME OUT SO GOOD