Scones for Smelts

I seem to have a program underway of feeding some of my teammates each Saturday. I rise well before practice and get one or two batches of scones in the oven, and come 8:45 outside the pool, I am disbursing baggies filled with two or three fresh baked goods.

I think it's a popular program thus far.

This morning it was up and out the door by 6:20, getting buttermilk from Jewel. Once home, I was to work. First batch: milk chocolate, toasted almond, and orange zest. The second batch, not shown, were studded with currants.

Despite an overcrowded pool that forced me to stay on deck coaching, it's been a lovely start to the day. A stroll early in the morning, baking, brunch at the Center on Halsted with teammates, and now a glorious sunny day. We'll do what we can to whip this mess of an apartment into shape.