Thankful for Pinterest

Do you have Pinterest? You should get it if you don't. Then be prepared to have it consume any idle time you have. Actually, be prepared to have it also consume the time when you should be doing productive things...like homework, or cooking dinner, or paying attention to a story your fiancé is telling you. It's okay, fiancé, I wasn't listening to you because I was Pinteresting our wedding. (yes, Pinteresting is a word...just like Tweeting and Facebooking and Instagraming). 

If you have been living under a rock, Pinterest is a social photo sharing website where the user collects ("pins") photos and compiles them into themed files ("boards"). You can peruse others' boards and re-pin what you like, or you can pin photos straight from the web. Imbedded in each photo is the website from which it came from, so you can always get to the original source of the photo to buy it, cook it, do it, or see more like it....

Did I lose you yet? Let me paint you a little picture. You're enjoying a hot cup of coffee on a lovely Sunday morning in November wondering what you could bake today. You log onto Pinterest, scroll through the "Food & Drink" collection and stumble upon an enticing looking Pumpkin Coffee Cake that someone pinned. You click on the photo in order to see the recipe and realize that you have all the ingredients! After repinning the Pumpkin Coffee Cake photo so that you never, ever lose it, you get to work baking. An hour later, you are face to face with a cake that looks pretty close to the picture you just pinned. You cut a piece, you take a picture of it (because you know you'll blog about it later) and sink your teeth into it. You're speechless. It's incredible. A thousand words come to mind to describe this cake. But you don't need to use them. Because a picture is worth a thousand words. And it all started with a picture...

Melodramatic? I think not. Pinterest is that epic. In the spirit of Thanksgiving, I am proud to say I am thankful for Pinterest this year. Pinterest has helped me start planning my wedding. It's fed many hungry tummys. It has brightened my day with adorable pictures of baby animals. And you should be thankful for it, too. Because without Pinterest you may have never know about the best Pumpkin Coffee Cake you will ever, ever eat!

Here is the link to the original blogger who posted this recipe: 

http://www.prettygoodfood.com/2012/02/pumpkin-coffee-cake-with-brown-sugar.html

Now, go create a Pinterest account!