Generation of packaged goods

Do I want to bake from scratch? Do I want to stand in my small cramped apartment kitchen for this?

After pondering this and considering my other options. I think I will bake, sort of.

Baking an all encompassing crazy flavor creation. An extra pinch of something can throw something completely off or create a flavor explosion. I have never been a true baker from scratch at home, even thought my $400 kitchen aid has been hidden in several rooms so I don't feel guilty. (I still hear my kitchen aid calling, seriously) I sometimes the use the KA for Betty crocker mixes. The truth is that the brownies from Betty, Betty Crocker rock my world. Yes, I sometimes think I am a big fraud as I buy the package browns- hump. I have made brownies from scratch for a bakery, for Foodie NY friends, with wholewheat spelt, kamut, and pastry whole wheat flour and each time I find myself trying to reproduce the browns from Betty. Horrible as that may seem I don't think I'm the only one. I think we all live in a generation of packaged goods and quick mixes fast answers via the Internet.

But the final question is what is home baked mean in 2009?
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