twelfth night

Woke up. Made a mini cake. Sun went down. And that's my day.

I mean, more or less anyways.

I did manage to get a yoga sesh in thanks to #responsibleradiuslounge featuring Jinah's first yoga lesson.

And a "lunch" we'll say of mung beans + snow fungus + gogi soup that turned more into a thick stew as it boiled away while I was re-whipping some buttercream. Eaten while staring longingly at the gloomy outside.

Not the most appetizing looking outcome, but when complete with pears and jujubes, it's the ultimate ailment-fixing soup of my childhood. Cold, cough, nosebleeds, period cramps, mucus in the lungs. I'm not even sure what or why the ingredients are for, but this seems like a pretty good time to break out the Chinese medicine. And it was easy to passively make while working on my edges.

My hexagonal edges.

caramelized sweetened condensed milk cake

mango jam

black sesame syrup

roasted coconut buttercream

Decorated while not really paying attention to Killing Eve and now I will have to re-watch it.

Now offering cake slices for curbside pick up.

"Dinner" was barely dinner. My craving for salty crunchy snack foods came to a head. I need cheetohs. I need popcorn. I need pretzels. I need saltines. I need potato chips. I need them now!

The last time I was in LA with Luke, we went to Nightshade. The aim was the mapo lasagna, but my mind is still entangled in the tom yum chicharron with coconut dip and smoked trout roe:

Everything about this was just magical. Where can I get tom yum seasoning to dump onto all my snack cravings?!

So I attempted to recreate it by powdering some red curry paste with maltodextrin - note for next time, instead of being too lazy to pull out the blender... just bite the Magic Bullet and blend it.

Sliced some colorful potatoes and shallow fried them in coconut + veg oil and tossed in red curry powder and scallions.

And ate the entire bowl on the couch in somewhere between 1-2 minutes what took 45-60 minutes to make. What did people do before the food industry started manufacturing bags on bags of potato chips so that people like me can binge eat effortlessly?

Honestly, this is why I don't keep snacks in the house.