Catch Up.

I made peanut butter strawberry scones (a play on PB&J) at The Grind yesterday. Today I made Cinnamon Ginger muffins. Something like this...

Except I made them with a brown sugar crumble topping. So good.

After I got off work, Greg (my duathlon world champion suitemate) and I went out grocery shopping for dinner. It was quite a feast. Here's the end result:

A black bean burger with lime cilantro hummus and guacamole. You might also notices the side of sweet potato chips, too. All homemade, all fervently rustic, and all delectable. The preparation was truly enjoyable. Greg and I were cooking in the moment. No recipes or measuring utensils. At one point I asked him how much olive oil he had put on the sweet potatoes. He replied, "some"--a sufficient answer which my palate later confirmed as the correct one, indeed.

We're going to try to cook every Sunday. Stay tuned.

I also am going to make more ice cream sometime (hopefully) this week. I have an idea for a homemade cone/bowl.

A bit of a Break

Well, after a few weeks of bloglessness, I have some old muffins to post.

Double chocolate!

Peach!

Healthy Flax Seed.

School's been tough. In the first three days of classes I read 180 pages, by the fourth I read 220, and by the 8th day I had made it above 400 pages. I love everyone in my resident life staff, we had a lot of fun in training. The biggest news relevant to the type of blog that this is is that I'm officially a baker! The coffee shop I am always at (literally--about 6 to 8 hours a day) hired me as the weekend baker. I'm learning a lot from the owner, and getting tons of experience that would normally cost me money and time--time I'm now getting paid for. I have some exciting new baked goods to post up and hopefully some new, original photography of them. I plan on having some great baking stories from The Daily Grind each weekend, too.

~Cheers