As you may have noticed, the blog has been on haitus for a while. It turns out that the degree I'm doing is a bit more work than I anticipated. Actually, it's been a huge amount of work, way more than I expected, and it's been taking up every bit of brain power I've had for weeks and weeks. Our next semester starts week after next and then I'll have three more months of lectures before writing a dissertation over the summer.
I should be back around the beginning of April, with all sorts of anecdotes and pictures of things I've baked and new style obsessions. Until then, I'm off to learn everything there is to know about the UK planning system - and to contemplate Gwyneth Paltrow's new detox diet. Don't worry; I won't do it. I refuse to do any diet that bans "nightshades" and wants me to drink lukewarm lemon water every morning. It might work, but I reject it for sheer goofiness.
So until I return, I leave you with photos of some Panda cookies someone brought to me as a souvenir from China. They look lovely on the box...
..but when you look inside, they're so angry!
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Yes, I get that GOOP newsletter as well. A lot of it is just as it sounds, "goop". But I made the Carrot Ginger dressing from the recent Detox issue and IT IS THE BOMB. I am eating it right now. It's so good that I have to actually eat a spoonful straight up before I even dress my salad. here's the receipt:
* 1 large carrot, peeled and roughly chopped
* 1 large shallot, peeled and roughly chopped
* 2 tablespoons roughly chopped fresh ginger
* 1 tablespoon sweet white miso
* 2 tablespoons rice wine vinegar
* 1 tablespoon roasted sesame seed oil
* 1/4 cup grapeseed oil
* 2 tablespoons water
Pulse the carrot, shallot and ginger in a blender until finely chopped. Scrape down the sides, add the miso, vinegar and sesame seed oil and whiz together. While the blender is going, slowly drizzle in the grapeseed oil and the water.
I actually made it this morning to take to work with me. I feel very virtuous while I'm eating it. And it kind of cancels out the fact that I'm also planning to eat leftover mexican cornbread ground beef casserole today.
You should submit those panda photos to cakewrecks.com! Why are they so angry? What did you do to them?
Good luck finishing out your semester!
Ah, like so many of us...lovely on the outside but angry on the inside. Maybe because we're wrongly thought to be short, or brown, or face extinction, or are misunderstood because we really aren't bears at all.
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