I've thought from the beginning if this blog that a cake is a celebration... I'm starting to believe that a cookie is a tissue or a band aid.
I've needed lots of those lately, but luckily the scale is still creeping down.
Band aids come in both sweet and savory for me:
Crepes with carmelized onions and zucchini, ratatouille and dal mahkani for savory
Snickerdoodles, gingerbread, and crepes with raspberry jam for sweet.
The crepes in Babycakes were delicious. The only issue was over mixing leading to batter too thick and smaller thicker crepes, but they were so tasty I didn't even mind. The squash from my garden and some fried onions were just absolute perfection. I also sautéed squash up with sundried tomatoes and served it with root noodles... Tasty.
The snicker doodles out of the oven almost didn't make it to the plate. I over baked them and they were tough once they cooled, but in a glass of hemp milk, the sugar and cinnamon reminded me of every great rainy day when I was a little kid and baking for holidays.
The gingerbread got even better reviews from the family. They didn't keep their shape in the oven, so one tray wound up cut out after they cooled a bit. I fed two of my students the scraps from the cut outs and they gobbled them up. The family said that they weren't too spicy- I kicked up the ginger and the cardamom, but they were mellow... I enjoyed.
In other news, I took a quick jaunt down south to visit a little doll. It was heavenly: we played animals, watched gabba, colored and built and destroyed a lot of block buildings.
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