Hot Raspberry Cake and Ice Cream
From Barcelona journals:
I want to stop this thin woman with air-dried hair in a soft blue sweater holding a baguette and walking through the park. I want to understand her life.
Month: May 2015
Hot Yellow Cake with Caramelized Pineapple
Hot Yellow Cake with Caramelized Pineapple
Aastha, one of my 7th grade students (almost 8th!), is a ballerina and a fantastic nail artist, but I can’t relate to those things. Grace is a foreign concept to me and I have to use clear nail polish or I look like I’ve been trying to finger paint in a cement mixer.
But Aastha is also a passionate writer and baker, and those things I can relate to. For her Passion Project, a project wherein students spend an entire year exploring their personal passion and using it to improve or inform their society, she decided to create a cookbook of cupcake recipes adapted for special diets.
Smoked Salmon Salad in Avocado Boats
Smoked Salmon Salad in Avocado Boats
Did you hear that?
That distant scream was me flying from Barcelona to Venice this morning! Hopefully I’m now sitting by a canal somewhere, sipping a Coke Zero and unwinding.
Shortbreads with Lemon Whipped Icing
Shortbreads with Lemon Whipped Icing
I have terrible airplane anxiety. As soon as I step on the plane and strap myself in, I feel like I’m trapped on a roller coaster that might ACTUALLY drop me right out of the sky instead of just pretending to.
Hot Yellow Cake with Crackle Icing and a Blueberry Pile
My thoughts are with the people of Baltimore. I’m reading and thinking a lot, and I just want to let you know that I care. May we always be humble and willing to search ourselves for hidden bias, to analyze a problem honestly, to read and listen to develop empathy, and to reform systems in our country that are working in unconstitutional ways.
Hot Yellow Cake with Crackle Icing and a Blueberry Pile
Confession: I haven’t been to the dentist since 2009.
I KNOWWW. I know. I’m embarrassed to admit it. I’ve been insured and otherwise able to go to the dentist, so I have no good excuse. To tell the truth, I’m just terrified.
