back and aged like a fine fine corner-store wine

(psst the hottie ain't me, it's my sis)

(I am kicked out of veganism for this decorating job. of pure awesome.)

I'm still alive, I swear! I blame a flu for holding me hostage and making me kind of hate my own kitchen - a flu that has lasted for a month and is STILL CAUSING WHEEZY DEPTHFUL COUGHINGS IN THE NIGHT. Argh I say. I'm only sort of (maybe) remembering what an appetite feels like.

Chocolate PB banana smoothies + popcorn for dinner much? Anyway.

I turned 25 recently! And this year I insisted that a cake be made for me, because ha ha I was hating the sight of baking tins. Me mum made an amazing spice cake that I really want the recipe for - it was like eating a ginger cookie, except in cake form, and with plum frosting (and the best decoration job this side of my sister's taste level). Amazing, and I polished a good chunk of it off with actual soy ice cream, which I haven't had since high school. Happy birthday to me!






Later at home in montreal I had a wee shindig on my actual birthday, and flexed my rusty pastry muscles to pull off... the mushiest cake EVAH. Haha, it was good, but completely not cooked in the middle. (my oven is also teh sux, but we take responsibility for our disasters, yes?). I used the banana split cupcake recipe from Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World, and probably trying to make a full cake out of it accounted for the mush (also I only had whole wheat pastry flour, which is good, but not THAT good, you know what I mean? Forgive me but I like 50% white flour in cakestuffs).

At any rate the company was the greatest in the world, and I got a japanese unicorn mug, a pineapple, a decoupage candle-glass, a drawing of fish, some chamomile and ylang-ylang oils, and uhhh... my own tupperware back! Huzzah.

I also treated myself to a 10 kg bag of good old emptily nutritive white flour this afternoon. Aw yeah. :)

(^ psst that hottie is me)