Bun in the Oven

How to make a bun:

All you need to make a bun are the right ingredients, in the right quality and quantity, and an oven to pop it into, one that works at the right temperature for the right amount of baking time.

However, because we are all different (thank goodness!), not all of us are the best bakers in the world, not all of us are lucky to have all the ingredients right there, and not all of us have ovens that work just as they are supposed to.

In fact, there are many ways to make a bun.

The quick-n-easy version:
Some people are very lucky, they decide: “let’s make a bun” – they look in their cupboards and voila!  There are all the ingredients right there.  They put the eggs and flour together, mix it all up and pop it into the oven.  Set the timer and Rinnnggg!!!  Out comes a perfectly baked bun.

When a Special Chef helps: 
Sometimes you can have all the right ingredients, a perfectly fine oven, but still the recipe doesn’t seem to work.  Sometimes you need help from a special Chef.  Special Chefs have really cool gadgets and stuff, and they take your ingredients, mix them up in a special way, maybe even add a special bit of self-raising flour or some other special ingredient, and pop it into your oven for you.  You know how sometimes you just need a little help.  And these guys know their stuff!

Missing some ingredients?
Then there are other people who really really want a bun, but they find they don’t have any eggs, or they are missing some flour.  So what they do is they go to a very kind person and ask if that person might give them some of their eggs or flour.  The kind person says “of course, here take some, I have plenty, and you guys look like you would make a beautiful bun”.  The lucky couple rushes to their Special Chef who mixes it all up, and together they make a beautiful bun. 

Some one might say “but who does the bun belong to?”  Duh!!!  Of course it belongs the lucky couple who really really wanted the bun in the first place.  Without them, there would be no bun.  That bun is totally theirs, the eggs or flour they got from the kind person was just a teensy little bit of the whole recipe.  I mean REALLY, we ALL know that it takes more than just a few eggs or a cup of flour to make a bun.

Got no oven?
Then there are some people who have no oven, or their oven doesn’t work so well.  But they also really really want a bun.  So what they do is either get the ingredients from their cupboard, or they can even get some of the ingredients from a kind person, and they ask a really nice person if they can use their oven.  Just for a bit, just to pop their bun in until it is nicely cooked.  Then once that bun comes out the couple will say thank you very much and take their bun home to love and enjoy.

Luckily there are some really kind people out there, who can see how much some couples really want a bun.  Not every one is so lucky to have ALL the ingredients AND the best ovens ALL the time.

Ready made buns as special gifts:
Then there are some people who have a bun already, and although they really love their bun (who wouldn’t love a bun!), they simply can’t keep their bun.  They see a couple who really really wants a bun, a special bun (maybe they can’t make their own bun?) and they give the bun to this couple.  These are very special buns, special gifts.  If you had a special bun, wouldn’t you want it to go to a special couple who really really wanted a bun?  What a lovely thing to do. How kind some people are.

So you see, there are many different ways to make a bun.  In the end, all buns are the same (although every couple thinks THEIR bun is EXTRA delicious and yummy), no matter where or how that bun came from.  Some buns are big, some are small, sometimes you even get two buns at once!!  Imagine that!  All that matters is that each couple who really really wants a bun, gets their own special bun, no matter how that bun is made.  The recipes might be different but the bun at the end is just perfect. 

Comments

[ManhattanAnne]

Tertia, I was with you right up until the part about eating the bun!!! Anyway, thanks for the laugh. We're back to mixing eggs & flour here, still preheating the oven and hoping the damn pilot light doesn't go out again.

I'm checking in cause I'm going away for the Thanksgiving holiday, so I won't be on the computer when you get to 30 weeks. But I will be thinking of you! Crossing everything and thinking BIJ thoughts.
-Anne

[Lauren]

Very sweet post. I want icing on my bun.

[Terri]

LOVE IT!!! You are just so clever Girlie!

{{HUG}}

[eM]

That's what was so special about your shower. There were buns, old buns, new buns, thoughts of buns, browning buns, bun smiles, bun tears, bun-sitters, bun watchers, bun wait-ers, egg basket ladies, flourer sharers, oven offer-ers....it was a real bun village. Thanks for teaching us to all play nicely together and share what we have.

Now go back in the kitchen to whip up the birthday cake.

[Tina]

I love you so much.

[wix]

the best, most logical explanation of the different types of family-building i've ever read, with bonus points for riffing off of the old cliche.

[Boulder]

I think you should have your lovely story illustrated and printed out so that we can all hand it out to the people we've tired of trying to explain IF to. A nice children's style book, so that even the dim wits I seem to encounter can understand - you know so the children who read it can explain it all to them.

Especially loved the moral of your story that "All that matters is that each couple who really really wants a bun, gets their own special bun, no matter how that bun is made."

Amen sister!

[Ana]

Then there are couples who have sucessfully made a bun and really really want another. But somehow they either lost the recipe or their oven broke. And so they just keep trying.

This was a great story Tertia, you are amazing.

[Rachel]

(((((((((Oh, T!!!))))))))))

I LOVE this story! And I completely agree that you should have it illustrated and printed up to give out to all the bible-thumping asshats that would tell anyone trying to make a bun outside the conventional methods to accept "God's will".

You are just so very clever and fabulous!

[barren old crone]

*sniff*

love you.

Birthday cake in January.

xoxo
vicki

[Monica]

Up earlier than I'd like to be...well-meaning but sometimes idiot hubby woke me to ask how I slept last night (note: I had only been asleep about two hours due to hideous itching and back pain). Lovely. Anywho...your bun tales cracked me up. I wholeheartedly agree that this needs a publisher. Hop to it!

Ciao.

[B]

Who knew that such a light-hearted, fun post could bring tears to my eyes. Very well done Tertia. Thank you.

[Lioness]

You are adorable. And a genius! And I promise I'll not call you a smartass hardly ever again. Now even I want a bun? Think "have flour, will travel" will suffice? Even without those really, really long wooden spatules?

[lobster girl]

This is fantastic. Very sweet. I agree, it would make a nice children's story.

[Kristine]

I love this!! It's adorable, first of all, but also a wonderful illustration of how (bun) families are made. It's also a very accurate illustration since, as you will find in January, sometimes when you get your bun(s) they are hot cross buns, or sticky buns.

[Queenie]

How about those girls who just ran out to the liquor store for some cigarettes, and grabbed some flour and eggs while they were there, and when they got home, their boyfriend just barely tapped them on the shoulder, and they jumped in surprise and accidentally spilled the flour and eggs in the oven, and twenty minutes later, wham! They have a bun and didn't even mean to.

[Danae]

You have v nice buns.

[Scully]

I'm falling in love with you!

Wonderful post!

[patricia]

You are your own extra special recipe bun.

I was thinking about the people that couldn't keep their buns...are they allergic to flour? Perhaps they do not have the cupboard space for their buns. Or they don't like to have their buns alone.

I needed a smile today. Thank you.

[patricia]

You are your own extra special recipe bun.

I was thinking about the people that couldn't keep their buns...are they allergic to flour? Perhaps they do not have the cupboard space for their buns. Or they don't like to have their buns alone.

I needed a smile today. Thank you.

[patricia]

You are your own extra special recipe bun.

I was thinking about the people that couldn't keep their buns...are they allergic to flour? Perhaps they do not have the cupboard space for their buns. Or they don't like to have their buns alone.

I needed a smile today. Thank you.

[ginger]

So Marko is having trouble with the fact that if you open the oven door the bun will fall flat?

And you need to send him over to the bakery where they'll let him open oven doors without buns in them, and then the baker will come over and clean your kitchen?

Maybe this is the bit that doesn't make the editor's cut of the children's book.

Regardless - you are a genius, as always.

[Emily]

I love metaphors ;) Very clever post.

xxxxoooo,

[Cecily]

v v funny...

[Sheri]

*snif, snif*

Wonderful!

[Lisa]

That was simply marvelous....

I'm off to hug my 'Ready-made-bun-as-special-gift' right now!!

:) :) :)

[Nancy]

Oh Terita, there you go again, making me laugh and cry at the same time... and now I'm gonna go hug my ready made bun, too!

[Toni]

I'm agreeing with everyone - this needs to be a children's story. How perfect to explain to everyone how they were made!!!

I'm hoping for two buns to go along with my yummy bun with icing. :)

[mollie]

Now explain "up the pole."

[jamie]

Most excellent.

Here's to your buns, hoping they continue to plum up nicely; and to your oven, may it continue on the proper setting for healthy baking.

[dawn]

I know this is a really old post (I'm into reading archives these days). I agree that this is a GREAT way to teach children where they came from, in a non descript sort of way.
I was one of those who had a bun but no where to keep this special, wonderful, beautiful, loved and ever deserving bun in a safe and lovely environment. I couldnt fathom destroying a perfectly good bun just because I couldn't keep this bun all for myself and so I found a couple who didn't have all the ingredients for their own bun so that I could share my bun with them and know that they would cherish my bun as much as I did. Thankyou for this post. This is the first time in my 17 years as a birtmom that I have seen such a wonderful description of a very loved bun who made their way to someone else's home through adoption. It made me smile (alot). I know this post will probably never be read but I just wanted to say that is was appreciated.
Congrats on your two beautiful babies!!!

[Carla]

Thank you so much for this post. Had to laugh and cry. If you don't mind I'm going to make a copy of this for myself to remind me to look on the brighter side of things. You see, I'm also an unsucessful baker that is trying to bake her bun but it seems my ingredients are over date or something.

much love,
Carla