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Apple honeycake!
Today and yesterday were Rosh Hashana, the Jewish new year and one of our most important holidays. Its traditional to eat apples and honey to symbolize a sweet new year and as a result honeycake is a popular dessert during the holiday so I had to make one and add apples as a flourish.
Of course it came out hideous. Really quite ugly. Solid 6/10.
It tasted good though and lasted to entire two days!
Let us begin...
I have tried to start this before. I have spent too much time on the internet the past few years, like many of us, and have come to believe it both harms and heals. It scares me. On purpose and I resent that. But then it will make me laugh and then it will give me hope and then I learn something valuable. So I am here. Wanting to make my little mark even if it's to one person.
I have been thinking about homesteading, natural medicine, good, healthy food for years and dabbled in all now and then. I am a science believer with a crystal collection. I am practical but consult my tarot. I try not to eat meat but love a bratwurst. I am finding my groove.
Last night, I burned the zucchini bread. I had grated and frozen this zucchini and felt very smug at having saved this vegetable from certain compost death and pulled it out, mixed up a batter, and I was doing this all very haphazardly....and thinking how the cottage core homesteader people would be feeling uncomfortable with this very muppet chef-like approach to this project but that most people, normal people living in apartments or little houses in little towns or big cities might relate to this. And then I started thinking about the herbs I have grown and gardens I want to grow and food I plan to make and preserve.....could I make this real and approachable for the every day humans like myself? Can I help others learn to do things simply, cheaply, safely without feeling overwhelmed?
I consider myself sustainable, but buy stuff in plastic sometimes and am so tired on certain days, I cannot always be as mindful as I like...but what about "ugly sustainability?' This idea that we think about it...we act on it as much as we can, we remember to laugh....and we show the failed garden and the burnt bread and the gross things we forgot to label when we canned stuff last summer... or 4 summers ago.
Let's be real. I'm going to show you. I'm going to stand there in my not perfect clothes and my somewhat jumbled house and we are going to do things even if we don't quite know how yet, and even though it may not be perfect and our kitchens are messy.
This is for the uninternet ready# people. You are safe here. My fridge is a disaster and I do not know what is on the very back of the shelves. Reheat your coffee again and join me.
Chocolate chip banana bread!
I moved and have a new oven which we noticed runs cold so i tried to makeup for it and overcompensated a little which is why the tip burned 😬
So im giving it a 7/10. Its not pretty but not horrendous
Spice cake. Never listen to recipes when it comes to spices. Just dump it in. Trust me. This one came out delicious. And honestly not really ugly. Just like really basic looking. So I think 2/10 ugly
Mango cake! It was a bit strange. The sponge was amazing but I definitely found the mango strange in a cake. But I am in quarantine and the mangoes were getting overripe and in my experience you turn overripe fruit into cake so that is what I did.
Ugly rating 3/10. Its not really ugly just a bit strange.
So... blueberry cake in a pie pan cause I actually don't own a round cake pan. It's looks like a kindergartener poured chocolate syrup on it. Im not ashamed, but definitely not proud.
Ugly rating 7/10. Fairly ugly.
Absolutely fucked up some chocolate chip cookies. These are a staple ive made them a million times and I have never fucked them up this badly. Honestly I'm kind of embarrassed.
8/10 ugly. I have seen worse. At least they arent burnt.
I made blueberry muffins. There where more but I ate them.
Ugly rating 9/10. Theyre hideous, lopsided, burnt bits, however i feel like they are still identifyable as blueberry muffins therefore not 10/10.
They didnt taste amazing either but i think thats entirely my fault i messed up the recipe a few times.
