🗁Added 34 photos to album Life in Fife, 2024.
A mix of clear and dreich days, some big moon and big waves.
Posts between 2024/03 and 2024/04 (19 out of 19)
- Planted some things.
- Worked a lot. An incredible sense of relief as I finally passed milestones for both projects I'm working on, BODS and Open Fibre. Also lots of prep for our new starts next week.
- Swam in the sea twice.
- Made cranachan at the Community Kitchen and many cheesecakes, burgers and bean things at home.
- Finished The Algebraist (loved it); started Tears of the Giraffe.
- Went on a hike in the Perthshire hills.
- A very positive day in Edinburgh with new co-op people.
- Swam in the sea once.
- Seeds are germinating. Planted lettuce, chard; put tomatoes in the ground.
- Finished Tears of the Giraffe, re-read Artemis Fowl (it's as excellent as I remember from my childhood), started Morality for Beautiful Girls.
- Made coffee and biscoff cake at the Community Kitchen, then elaborate coffee and cheesecake cupcakes and matcha cookies for F's birthday.
- Weekend adventure (Birthday Cottage) in Glasgow with J and F. Watched Nimona and The Mitchells vs the Machines.
- Discovered a new story to be told...
🗁Added 52 photos to album Life in Fife, 2024.
A rock hunting hike in the hills near Abernethy. I was just along for the ride. Turned out to be a much nicer day than expected
Week in review: 26th Feb - 3rd March
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🗁Added 9 photos to album Edinburgh 2024.
A day in Edinburgh with new co-workers. Food at Mosque Kitchen, Hideout Cafe and Holy Cow.
🗁Added 15 photos to album Homemade food.
A new burger recipe, involving pinto and kidney beans, cous cous, vital wheat gluten. Turned out well! Most of them went in the freezer.
🗁Added 8 photos to album Homemade food.
Coffee and biscoff cake at the Community Kitchen. Lotus biscuits and coffee beans crumbled on top of a biscoff frosting.
🗁Added 30 photos to album Life in Fife, 2024.
Getting up early enough for the sunrise, when the clouds part enough to wake me.
🗁Added 28 photos to album Homemade food.
I finally got the giant bucket of sheese cream cheese I'd been given by Louise from G&S out of the freezer and carved it up. Then I made a lot of cheesecake. I tried both baked and raw versions, expecting the latter to turn out best, but it didn't set. The baked on the other hand, was beyond my wildest dreams. The raw one went into the freezer, and is like a delicious ice cream cake. The raw crust was just nuts and dates; the baked crust was oats and dates. This was my first ever baked cheesecake, and I'm so happy with how it turned out.
🗁Added 10 photos to album Stuff I grow.
Seeds are germinating. Planted lettuce and chard. Potted some things on and put some tomatoes in the ground in the polytunnel. The different varieties are all mixed up already, of course, despite my diligent labelling efforts.
Chocolate habaneros in the living room have sprouted!
I just made powdered sugar from granulated sugar in my blender. I always knew it was theoretically possible, but I kind of never believed it would really work. Happy to find I'm wrong!
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🗁Added 18 photos to album Homemade food.
I overachieved on F's birthday cakes - coffee cupcakes with cheesecake center, cream cheese frosting, and another mini cupcake on top... and I even got them to Glasgow on public transport in one piece! They didn't last long after that though. I also made my trusty matcha cookie recipe, which never fails.
At F's, I made us all an elaborate breakfast.
🗁Added 5 photos to album Misc visits.
Birthday Cottage rekindled after many years. It was a weekend in F's flat in Glasgow, but it was filled with good food, chat and movies <3
Week in review: 4th - 10th March
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Sometimes I can't tell if a meeting went well or if I'm just boundlessly optimistic.
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🗁Added 30 photos to album Life in Fife, 2024.
Really feeling like spring..
🗁Added 18 photos to album Homemade food.
Delicious, if slightly charred, oreo muffins (the ganache and oreo may or may not have been to disguise the slight charredness - my timer didn't go off).
Tacos every day for a week after I got lots of tortillas from the Community Kitchen, with various different fillings.
Peanut butter and jam brownie with banana (n)ice cream (chocolate coconut, or sea salt caramel flavours). Suuuuper good, if I do say so.
🗁Added 23 photos to album Life in Fife, 2024.
Braw mornings and good rain at night. A few cloudy days.
L came to visit, and we tried the new 'wellness cafe', Rumours, which has finally opened. Excited to be back there!
Helped K move half a ton of slate.
🗁Added 18 photos to album Homemade food.
My sister knows how to entertain me when I visit: she left me an undecorated cake to adorn. We also made several other tasty meals between us.
I think I've found the absolute optimum cafe. There's wifi (with a memorable password), power, lots of space, many different kinds of seats, really delicious coffee, incredible vegan cakes and sandwiches and I can sit behind a very large potted tree with my laptop feeling slightly hidden from the rest of the world. And it opens early. The only drawback is that it's in Luxembourg.
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