Food!
Today I ate more than I had any right to, but I don’t have photos of my beautiful meals. Instead, I have these meal-for-one snapshots taken over the past few days.
Homemade zucchini walnut bread with coffee
I LOVE the green onion kimchi on the left. I’ve been eating it with almost every meal I have at home. The zucchini was leftover from the zucchini bread, and I added barley + flax powder to my regular white rice. Miam!
A reincarnation of the same meal, with a tofu-spinach-mushroom stir-fry.
Jenna and I were making brownies from a BBC Good Food recipe one night in London when she busted out this old-school scale to measure the butter.
Can you say L.O.V.E.?
I used this recipe from Caviar and Codfish to make my first meatloaf ever. Super easy. We loved the bacon flavor that seeped into every delicious bite.
My dear friend just emailed me this photo in anticipation of our homemade doughnut fest this evening. I asked her to prepare the yeasty stuff and volunteered my deep fryer in exchange. These are what you can call fairtrade doughnuts. hahaha!
I got the hookup from someone who knows someone from Madagascar, and when that second someone went back to visit their homeland recently, they brought back these apparently cheap vanilla beans. Naturally, I looked up a recipe and made my own batch of vanilla extract, which at $5 for a small, small bottle can sometimes be the most expensive ingredient in my baking. Thus I see the contents of this old jam jar as a super bargain (so what if I had to buy a $20 bottle of Skyy vodka to make it? The rest of the bottle will go to good use.). The color has already turned into a deep brown and I can just SMELL it through the glass.
