Peach Scones (with or without Roasted Ginger) & BF Skinner & Books

I had two buns in the oven – no, no, NOT another human baby.  Book babies.

I have a novel for adults that I’ve just edited and a novel for teenagers (which I suspect will cross over to the grown up side, too).

Finishing a book is always an odd sensation – relief, happiness, and a bit of empty nest syndrome.  Bye bye to Noelle, the main character in A GOOD MAN, and fare-thee-well to Livvy, Codman, and Bertucci in THE LAST NIGHT.  I loved writing these novels.

But now I move on and figure out the next book, which is coming to me in fragments.  The book is always a puzzle I have to figure out before it becomes the next official thing.  Sometimes I try a new book and fail.  Or that failure becomes part of another novel years later.  Sort of like recipes.

These scones were first candied ginger and too crumbly.  And then ultra-buttery for a baby shower I threw for a friend.  And now a blend of recipes to make a new one the kids enjoyed all last week (as did my friend for whom I’d thrown the shower).

BF Skinner wrote “A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.”

This is probably true.  And wise.  And yet the guy raised a kid in a box, so perhaps we should forget about it an go eat scones.

4 responses to “Peach Scones (with or without Roasted Ginger) & BF Skinner & Books”

  1. I copied the BF Skinner quote (& pasted it as my FB status: it reminded me of this quote: Sometimes a leap of faith is the only transportation available). I then pasted the recipe, which I do intend to try, in Pepperplate. You should get your website to be supported by Pepperplate. Love the idea of roasted ginger. Thank you.

      • I was curious, too, about how Pepperplate works, and found this link which points out the flaws of Pepperplate. So…don’t worry about it. I’ve just started putting recipes in there so it is easier to find the ones I like. But it is true that I thought it would be a place I could share recipes I make up myself, and in fact it doesn’t work that way. At this link, there are other suggestions (which you may know about).
        http://ask.metafilter.com/205258/Better-than-PepperPlate