Get the perfect muffin and then get it to the right size. Because it seems like it will affect more than just baking time.

It rises fine in normal tins. I already know that. I can't half make it in jumbo pans--that's one variable, and it's the variable I'm looking to compensate for.

It occurs to me that if I make the tins less slippery, that might help too.

Can't hurt?

No, but it could put the recipe over the limt for "first thing Sunday morning" since that's an additional electrical device It needs a food processor already, which is irritating. I will test next week.

If I hadn't already had no desire to have kids, this would be the final straw

You frame it like parents just are dead-eyed, and it's because of their kids. But they're also bubbling with pride or tenderness or whatever other emotions humans have--I'm not up to date on the most recent releases.

My Mom found out she was pregnant when she went to get birth control a few months after I was born. She'd been breast feeding and didn't think she could get pregnant.

Surprise! She was and my brother and I are 14 months a part.

It's only now occurring to me, I've never made any alterations when switching between muffins and loaves of the same batter other than time in oven. And I generally do just use baking powder (and sourdough, but that hardly counts as leavening in a quick bread, right?). Hm.

Do you not fill the tin to the top, then, if it climbs the walls?

My younger brothers are 1 year, 1 month and 1 day apart. My parents were by that time using birth control, as it had become apparent that we would number in the teens if they continued at the existing rate unaddressed.

I always do. The smaller the container, the less time it takes to cook through.

The batter is shy of the top--not massively, but enough so that I'm expecting the dome muffin top, but instead they're mostly flat.

Right, baking time has to change, but I've never had a loaf not rise like a muffin that I can recall. I may have to experiment.

I just had a really interesting meal with Polgara and family. I wish I had responded to the woman who was manning an arts and crafts table for kids and said, "No you can't take a crayon. You can send the kids over because we are providing a service," with, "have you been fingerprinted? Do you have a CPR certification? What ECE credits do you have? Have you had a TB shot? Because I work all day with kids and I have those things. You, on your cell phone while entitled kids sit and color? NSM a service as you want a tip." Or at the least, I should have said, "I wouldn't trust you with my kids."

Oh man. I've also realized West Hollywood people are not my people. At all.

You frame it like parents just are dead-eyed, and it's because of their kids.

So it wasn't just me who read it that way?

Sorry, insert foot. I meant specifically in the pictures, although I don't think that helps. Outside of what my camera captured, when I was actually at the event, everyone seemed happy. I'll shut up now.

You know, some family therapists actually look over family snapshots with clients and point out aspects of the relationship that is evident in body language. I mean it's one thing if ONE spontaneous snapshot hints at dysfunction (because everybody has off moments, days when they're worried about something, pain, etc.), but when it happens over and over, something is off.

Note they primarily use snapshots rather than posed family portraits when everyone is supposed to be smiling. It's those spontaneous moments when people are being themselves without the awareness they're being watched that shows you a lot.