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And last but most important: You cannot order a cake by listing all the ingredients to the chef. Everyone’s cake will be a bit different, even if they are made from the same materials. Everyones taste sense is also diffeent. Also, by listing all the ingredients that you think you want, you might be missing out on that splash of cinnamon, vanilla or other taste that you might eventually fall in love with. Keep your mind open to all possibilities, remembering that as long as it has eggs and flour and as long as no vinegar and salt is predominant, you might just like the cake after all. And don’t rush to gulp down what you think you saw coming out of the oven. Use your senses – all 6 of them – else you might burn your lips or even worse.
And call home every once and a while, let us know you’re doing ok”
She got through to me. It all made a strange kind of sense, almost enlightening! Only one thing that I didn’t quite understand from her advise
“So nanna, only one thing I don’t understand. What is chocolate in all this? You talked about the rest, but left that one out” I finally asked her.
With a slight smirk in her face, as she was leaving to go back to her chores she replied to me:
“Oh that! That’s simply to say that everyone loves chocolate, not much to it boss…”
And call home every once and a while, let us know you’re doing ok”
She got through to me. It all made a strange kind of sense, almost enlightening! Only one thing that I didn’t quite understand from her advise
“So nanna, only one thing I don’t understand. What is chocolate in all this? You talked about the rest, but left that one out” I finally asked her.
With a slight smirk in her face, as she was leaving to go back to her chores she replied to me:
“Oh that! That’s simply to say that everyone loves chocolate, not much to it boss…”
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i like cake
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Not everyone loves chocolate....but i agree about the cake. 
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I prefer cherry cheesecake myself....
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bajanblue: Not everyone loves chocolate....but i agree about the cake.
Oh bajan, you really love this kind of stories
Hope you've been well sweety
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Hugz_n_Kissez: I prefer cherry cheesecake myself....
still haven't found my cake Hugz
But i got a few preferences myself too
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Tamarory: i like cake
dont we all mate
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just a bump concerning the:
"how much "right" needs to have Mr/Mrs Right" thread
my nanna's take on the issue
"how much "right" needs to have Mr/Mrs Right" thread
my nanna's take on the issue
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Manolito: just a bump concerning the:
"how much "right" needs to have Mr/Mrs Right " thread
my nanna's take on the issue
"how much "right" needs to have Mr/Mrs Right " thread
my nanna's take on the issue
Beautiful story Mano!!! I can relate very well to the bit about the "burnt cakes" ... show compassion but DONT get involved!!! I had to learn the hard way!! But "grew" a lot in the process ...
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FlowerOfTheSnow: Beautiful story Mano!!! I can relate very well to the bit about the "burnt cakes" ... show compassion but DONT get involved!!! I had to learn the hard way!! But "grew" a lot in the process ...
Thank you FOS
i too wish there was another way to learning and growing
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Wow, I just read this.... brilliant! Those grandmothers, I hope I can use such simple yet powerful metaphors too by the time I get to be that age.... 
This actually reminds me of another similar story, by a Latvian author, but I feel too lazy/tired to type it up right now.
This actually reminds me of another similar story, by a Latvian author, but I feel too lazy/tired to type it up right now.
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AudrysSis: Wow, I just read this.... brilliant! Those grandmothers, I hope I can use such simple yet powerful metaphors too by the time I get to be that age....
This actually reminds me of another similar story, by a Latvian author, but I feel too lazy/tired to type it up right now.
This actually reminds me of another similar story, by a Latvian author, but I feel too lazy/tired to type it up right now.
You do realize of course that we'll be waiting for it!
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Halva, Afentiko???
Loved your story. Read it all the way through. Thanks.
Loved your story. Read it all the way through. Thanks.
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Wonder when my cake will be on here?
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Now, isn`t he growing up to be such a nice boy? I keep telling him ... he is gonna make some lucky girl a very good husband one day. Just be careful and choose wisely, like your Mama taught you!
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mmmmm tasty cake love red icing
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ermm .. i found the cake talk thread Mano 
Real nice post .
Real nice post .
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Manolito: still haven't found my cake Hugz
But i got a few preferences myself too
But i got a few preferences myself too
Just cause I prefer cherry cheese cake....doesn't mean I have found it YET!!!!!!!!!
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breezee: Halva, Afentiko???
Loved your story. Read it all the way through. Thanks.
Loved your story. Read it all the way through. Thanks.
Halouva, Mastre?
I am not from where you think i am, but thanks
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As I was indulging myself in the chocolate-rich cake, my nanna made her appearance. She could read my mind with the greatest ease whenever she felt like. She could always do that!
“Do you like eggs?” she asked, as soon as she noticed the darkness in my slightly reddish eyes.
“Of course” I replied, half-mouth-full still.
“How about raw eggs?” She continued, while calculating and sensing everything that were taking up my thoughts.
Bliah, how could she even ask this? And what was the meaning of this while in the middle of my little feast?
Without getting an answer, she proceeded in her questions
“What would you say if I poured you a mug of sugar and made you eat it?
How about a few spoonfuls of oil?
Didn’t think so!
Well, if I were to give you a bowl of flour, would you eat that?
What if I gave you a few bars of chocolate? Surely you would like that, we all love chocolate!”
I wasn’t quite sure where she was going with this, but as many times before, she had gotten my attention by now – enough to forget about my devouring of the cake and just listen to her peculiar line of questioning.
“Remember boss (she loved to call me that in our mother-tongue) what I have asked you today and what you answered to all of this: I just asked you one by one the ingredients I used to make the cake you so much love. Most of them, you wouldn’t think about eating them by themselves. But when blended together and tested in the fire of the stove, tendered by two loving hands, they create what you got to be in love with. There are many things that can go in a cake boss: Sometimes I add some milk, or cocoa. I might use cornflower or sesame flour to make you the halva you so much adore. If it is in season, I use oranges. Alternatively, I will add a touch of cinnamon or vanilla here and there… I know you will still love it. I also remember the horrific expression on your face after you had a bite of the cake I made when your brother exchanged the sugar for the salt in the containers and I used that without knowing. You were always so impatient to try it the minute it came out of the oven, you little devil…
I know you are leaving boss, you needn’t tell me. I just want you to take this piece of advice with you wherever you might go:
People are like cakes. They are forged in the fire of life. Their personality characteristics are like the ingredients I use for the cakes. Some of them are necessary in order to make a good cake, like eggs and flour. Eggs are like a loving open heart in a person and the white flour is his honesty. But that alone says little of the quality of the cake in the end. You need to add a lot of other ingredients, most of which you would never take on their own and put them in your mouth. And then it needs to be mixed lovingly and baked for the right amount of time. No one likes a raw or burnt cake.
Some people are like that: While they have all the right ingredients, they are not yet ready in the fire of life, or even worse, unfortunate circumstances have burned them. Show compassion, but don’t get involved with these people.
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