Baking

So, did you miss me? :) Thanks for all the messages folks! The fingers are healing slowly but nicely. I regained the use of my 3rd and 4th fingers yesterday and they are performing quite well (other than a little numbness in the fingertips). The thumb and index finger are still bandaged, but they should [...]



Apologies for the lack of updates! I had a slew of posts that I had planned for this week, but a rather depressing incident with my hair has lead to a complete and utter lack of motivation on all fronts.

Quick recap - I discovered that my regular hairdresser has up and moved to a little [...]



My kid sister has always been something of a fussy eater. When she was a little child, it was not uncommon for her seat at the table to be littered with (what she THOUGHT were) well-hidden remnants of her meal - legumes, anything that had been within 6 feet of ocean waters, bean shoots, sprouts, [...]



Unfortunately, I’ve been out of the kitchen all week due to study (and I’m still working on an analysis of bias in the media) so haven’t really got anything spectacular for your perusal. However, in lieu of that, here’s a Gâteau au Yaourt that I made using a recipe from Clotilde’s blog, Chocolate & [...]



This post was going to contain some silly comments about the variety of cheesecakes around as well as the qualities of baked goods from certain areas of the world - for example, Asian bakeries and their overwhelming amount of different kinds of soft milky breads (I think I’ve spoken before about the near impossibility of [...]