The mostly delicious food adventures of a graduate student

 

 
For my (one) reader, here is a picture of the focaccia.

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grey gloom winter skies
scent of focaccia baking
happy, reading, home
 

Here is the recipe as promised.  I adapted it from Dreena Burton’s marvelous Eat, Drink, and Be Vegan, which is definitely worth checking out for simple and delicious vegan recipes.  These muffins freeze very well; just wrap them tightly in plastic wrap and place in a ziploc bag.  I just ate one that I thawed at […]

My reaction to snow depends mostly on whether or not I am indoors and/or warm.  In this case, I was indoors and warm so I oohed and ahhed over how snow-globey it looked. On the other hand, my poor roommates had to go outside and said it was freezing, slushy, and wet.
Which brings us to […]

My brain is mushy from final papers, but these brownies are not!  In fact, they are delightful, even when baked under extreme end-of-semester stress.
 

Whenever I bake, and especially if I am trying a new recipe, I am pleasantly surprised that the end result is edible/delicious. But that isn’t the point of this post. I enjoy making cupcakes because they are already portioned and diminutively adorable (thus satisfying the twelve-year-old-sanrio-and-all-things-cutesy-loving Asian girl secretly lurking inside […]