Even before the pandemic happened and all the restaurants were forced to close and life ceased to be as it was, I had cooked and baked almost everything we ate. Besides the meals themselves, I made lots of kitchen staples: loaves of flax-laden sourdough, almond walnut granola, jars of spicy salsa and sweet marmalade…delicious things […]
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celebration.
Oh HI! It’s been a few blinks. Life piles on, and it doesn’t always leave room for chronicling it online, or more importantly, in my mind’s memory bank. For better or worse, significant moments seem to be marked by the food surrounding them. As I think of past meals, I am better able to recall […]
i like you. here’s some food.
Over the weekend I baked a large carrot cake for my friend’s birthday. It was served at a party with lots of our friends, and our friends are nice people, so they congratulated me on how delicious and beautiful the cake was. My outward response was, “Thanks!” but inside I thought, “Well I guess they […]
ginger carob cake.
All year long I drink hot water with a few slices of fresh ginger in it, as a cleansing tonic to help with digestion and a cure-all for various ailments. However, it is only when the winter holidays roll around do I seem to think of making gingerbread. Its dark, moist, spicy and complex flavour […]
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I had a really, really old package of instant black sesame powder in the pantry. It is the kind that you are supposed to mix with hot water to make pudding. I didn’t really like the pudding it made, so instead I decided to use it to make black sesame cake. This is what happened: […]