After hanging out in a friending meme for a few pages, I feel like I should post something either fannish or substantial here, if not both. But the back of my brain is spending most of its time stressing about work closing down in a week and a half, and still not knowing what I'm doing next year. I will know by 15 January; perhaps then I will start ( Read more... )

and then emailed to the all-staff list, where i garnered as many compliments for my recipe writing style as for the salad itself.

I totally forgot that I promised to write out my recipe for quinoa salad! here is less of a recipe and more of an idea:

quinoa is probably in the health food or the gluten free section of the supermarket. You can get red ( Read more... )

So anyway, the other thing I've been doing lately is cooking my way through Viva Vegan. It's a great book, generally well written and full of interesting sounding recipes, and ingredients I don't often cook with. The first thing I cooked out of it this year was the potato & chickpea enchiladas, which got the response "how is this vegan? it's really ( Read more... )

except that when i promised to bring a salad for work thing, i said i'd bring potato salad ( Read more... )

Okay, I have to say that decent though the cake in my last entry was fresh, it is quite unpleasant four or five days later. Both gluey and cardboardy, as though that's even possible ( Read more... )

There is a cake in my head that is kinda like a fruit cake but with no fruit, and kinda like nigella lawson's stem ginger gingerbread cake: all brown sugar and spices. This isn't that cake at all, but I really like the texture & the fact that even though I was too lazy to beat anything it still came out fluffy and not particularly crumbly.

( lazy cake recipe )