pretty day

made some cookies (all from scratch!) earlier this week :



this morning, after only 4 hours from sleep (trouble falling asleep) i wandered to farmers market with laurel and jill and here is what i bought, for a total of $9 :



and a bouquet of flowers that were labeled 'strawberry flowers' at market but when i googled them to find out more about them all i found were the actual flowers that bloom with strawberry plants that are white and yellow! :



i like how they have little circles of smaller, yellow/white blooms in them, it looks like they're each wearing their own wreath of littler flowers on their little heads, you can see it most in the bottom-center flower in this photo :




i also have a stack of 11 croissants (lost one in the process of cutting!) waiting for me at home :



really beautiful out today, especially compared to the nonstop rain we've had for almost a week. and there's just enough breeze to give the lake whitecaps which is great.

i plan on making ratatouille tonight with the eggplant, zucchini and cherry tomatoes from market. i'll stick the recipe in here if it ends up being any good!

disaster zone

Happy Croissant now available at Shanalogic.com. The link to the right under poor lost bread sites is directly to the Happy Croissant page! It's a really amazing handmade-stuff store, I recommend checking it out!!!

anyway, while looking at pictures, both for inspiration and information of the anatomy of French pastries, I found this and thought it was a pretty good idea :



also made a lot of gocco faces last night, a dozen croissant ones and 1/2 dozen faces that are to be announced (surprise ones!), but in the process broke the screen so i have to order more before i can print any more. luckily that means i have like 16 croissants to make and 6 "mystery items" and a few other things so i'll be fine until i can scrounge up a few gocco light bulbs and screens.

Clean Stove, Toasty Monsieur

Voici, Monsieur Croque Monsieur!

He was created in the midst of me asphyxiating myself with Easy Off Stove Cleaner, and doing laundry in the creeeeepy basement. But he turned out rather nice. Especially his moustache, which was a lot harder than it looks!

I also had another croissant photo shoot for the croissants on the plates Mar got me when her and Mom came up last week :



pretty cute huh?

Well, don't know what's next. Brioche and pain au raisin, pain au chocolat perhaps? Baugettes still too!

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Etsy store is looking (and doing) pretty well!

Here's what my apartment looks like (minus a creme and a croissant who are resting up for their voyage to Canada tomorrow morning!).



I was really excited and tried to make cookies today but I started preheating and discovered that my oven is a coal mine AND a smoke stack.

Bought 2 background music Frenchy records for my show and some old Twilight Zone on VHS today.....

Well I really would write more but I'm very distracted by Jurassic Park right now so I'll really do more tomorrow probably. I just mainly wanted to post some photos!