cookery is my therapy... did you know that 8800something-ish words comes out to about 20 pages of writing? i turned in what was in my mind an obscenely long assignment for only being 40% of the grade by 1pm yesterday, which left me with a mostly-free afternoon.

so i made beef, barley and vegetable soup (inspired by this), green tea oatmeal sugar cookies (inspired by this), and nectarine sauce (from here). they all came out really well - next time i'll get my bh to take some photos...

it was a good afternoon.