My brain’s a bit of a mess these days. I’m trying to keep up with this whole blogging thing, but I’ve just been feeling generally uninspired and stressed out lately for a variety of reasons (well, really just one reason, but I can’t talk about it on the internets YET. So there.)
To continue where I left off last time: this month I had two sets of cookies to make for the monthly cookie. In addition to the compost cookies, I also made these homemade Thin Mints! I was actually pretty excited about making these since I can’t even remember the last time I ate an actual Thin Mint. (I don’t particularly want to support the Girl Scouts, and I also try not to eat highly processed foods. Also: homemade junk food is the best.) If my memory serves me correctly, these came out a good bit thicker and less crunchy than the Girl Scout variety. But they were really, really good. And I realized that they could easily be made vegan, since all you’d have to replace is a small amount of milk and the butter (soy-free earth balance for the win!) I’m gonna try making them vegan sometime soon, I swear. After I digest the two dozen cupcakes I ate over the course of this weekend.
Drying cookies after dipping in chocolate glaze. Yes, my kitchen is a mess. Less than four months left on this lease and then I’m free of the tiny awful kitchen!
These took forever to harden; I ate a lot of them straight outta the fridge.
Close-up, after dipping.
Yoni’s mom was in town for a minute on the way to and from a bread-baking workshop in Asheville last week, and I took a trip to La Farm with her on my day off. There is really nothing bad you can say about this place unless you are a: vegan or b: gluten intolerant. Oh, wait, there’s that one other thing…the bakery is in Cary, a town I have absolutely no reason to go to and that’s half an hour from Durham. Maybe there are other things to do in Cary but from an outsider’s perspective, it just looks like miles and miles of ugly developments, strip malls, and big stores. Very suburban. We ordered lunch and I got a slice of berry-cheese tart:
The quiche/salad I got was good, but the salad dressing that came with it was super sweet and tasted like from-a-bottle. Next time I’ll ask for something else or just oil and vinegar. There were also some hotties working behind the counter, which is always a nice surprise. (Oh man, do people talk about us Guglhupf employees this way? I better watch it.)
I got all weirdo-touristy and wandered around taking photos after I ate:
I should try to figure out if there’s other stuff to do in Cary next time I want to make the trip to La Farm. Even though I work at a bakery I still really like going to other bakeries, but compared to my previous home (Philly) we gots nothing here in Durham. And places like Mad Hatter’s don’t count. Blech!