10 reasons not to do holiday baking in africa

1. Butter’s too expensive to have this many flops (like $6 a pound)

2. The price of eggs tripled last week. What is going on?

3. The humidity and heat makes rolling out anything unsuccessful

4. It already feels like it’s a bazillion degrees in the kitchen, who thinks it’s a good idea to turn on the oven?

5. The oven heats outside itself more than inside

6. No microwave

7. Apparently it does make a difference to do conversions from the recipes in cups to grams. Approximations don’t work.

8. Things don’t taste the same when you can’t buy half the required ingredients and apparently I don’t know the right substitutions

9. Just another thing to give Nede a reason to ask, “why, Sistah Dara?”

10.  Makes me only dream of a white Christmas

(Okay, look at that face. It hasn’t been all bad:)