gone pro!

Tag and all!

Thanks to Matt Dalton at Instructables for some laser cutter real estate, photo

opportunities, and stimulating conversation! Instructable here!

and things to drink from

if anybody would like some goblets, i would be happy to make more.

i'm even thinking of buying some color before next semester rolls in.

if anyone is thinking of taking the class, check it out here: sfsu-glass.org

recipe of the day

VEGAN TRUFFLES

follow loosely:

melt in a double boiler:

12 oz chocolate chips

1 T coconut oil

stir in:

3/4c - 1c coconut milk (less makes a truffle that is solid but melts when you eat it, more makes a really soft ganache that is even soft when it is frozen. both are ridiculously delicious)

spices

today's flavours are lavender (cook the lavender in coconut milk to taste, add salt, strain)

and curry (add to chocolate/milk mix: curry powder and a little salt to taste)

put choco-sludge mix in a bowl in the freezer for an hour or two, roll into little shapes and cover in cocoa powder

store in freezer or fridge

mmmmmm

stuff on the shelves!

Tube tops. bike corsets and pantsters are now being test-sold at Mojo Bicycle

Cafe! (Mojo is on Divisadero between Hayes and Grove)

They have just a few at the counter, waiting on some good feedback before

taking some more. If you're in the neighborhood, please stop by and tell

them you're a fan!

If you'd rather wait, Box Dog Bikes will (hopefully) be doing the same at

the beginning of February.

So so excited!

Sadie

all in a night's work

i went to rainbow grocery tonight to check out their trash.

rainbow is an organic vegetarian grocery store that not only

puts out a dumpster full of unsellable veggies each night, but

that also puts the good produce in a box next to the trash for

the taking. here's tonight's loot, please note the organic

mistletoe (!)

family food

Well my stay in LA is over, but here's what it looked like:

thus completes my first sketchbook of San Francisco.

I have to say I'm kind of proud!

Pink Bread

first of all:

secondly, I have all this purple carrot juice that I don't feel like drinking --> Pink bread!

I made up a recipe, as follows:

1 c warm water

2.5 t yeast

2 T agave

put this stuff in a bowl (cracked a glass bowl doing this, darn)

and let the yeast foam for about 10 minutes

2 c millet flour

.5 c brown rice flour

1 T tapioca starch

1 t xanthan gum

mix it all up, dry and wet stuff

add purple carrot juice until the dough has enough liquid (and is also pink)

lots of: sumac, thyme, sunflower seeds, barberries, himalayan pink rock salt

(or whatever other spices appeal to you instead. I have a hunch that a cinnamon/cayenne/cardamom/goji berry bread would be damn tasty)

knead it all together, coat in olive oil, put it in a pan, covered, in a warm place

for an hour or more.

apparently gluten-free bread doesn't need to be kneaded a second time (or even

a first!) so when it has risen a bunch you can just shove it in the oven (375 deg./1 hr).

a tip I read is to put a skillet of water in the oven with the bread. I did this but not

until late, so I don't know if it worked, but the bread will dry out super fast, so I

recommend giving it a shot.

Let the bread sit in the pan to cool for a while before taking it out, and viola!

the result? delicious! Things to change: it's a little bitter, but I don't know whether

that is from the flours or the spices. I'll mess around next time.

mmmmmmm!