Recipe Report

The results are in - that is to say, our Baking for Dietary Restrictions teacher told us what sort of recipes we'd need to bring in today, tomorrow, and Thursday. We need a bread today, a dessert tomorrow, and a quick bread (= something made with baking soda/powder) Thursday.

I was banking on all desserts again, but in retrospect that was naive. Desserts would naturally be more difficult to find with low carbs, and general breads are more difficult to find without gluten/wheat flour. This means I've got a wider selection of desserts narrowed down and have barely even glanced at breads 9_9

Anyone wanna help me attempt to predict what we'll be making sans dairy next week?

Possible recipes:
Today: Besan Flatbread; Sorghum Bread (again) if we don't have besan (chickpea flour); French Bread Rolls (again) if we don't have any sorghum, because I know we have millet flour. I just need to make sure I get to it first...
Tomorrow: Leaning towards White Chocolate Orange Blondies. Or maybe I'll hold off on those until dairy-free and/or various allergy things and go with Lemon Coconut Cupcakes instead. I dunno, there's a lot more dessert options to sort through that bread options.
Thursday: Maybe the Cinnamon Pear Muffins? We've got pear trees in our yard I've yet to use the fruit from. I have more time to sort through quick bread recipes than the others, though.

I have totally gotta investigate our flour options. There may be a trip to New Pi in my future... (Sob sob, my wallet! At least my crochet patterns have been selling fairly well lately.)

Oh! Also! Tomorrow is my last breakfast shift! (For the internship this semester.) Quire started not long ago, but I skipped the last two sessions so I could be up extra early on Monday. I'm 100% looking forward to going and singing again :)

Flour Power

( Cut for a long rant about Baking for Dietary Restrictions (the class, not the action) )

A pick-me-up:

A while back, my mom commissioned me to make a baby toy for a coworker of hers who was expecting. Mom's coworker and coworker's husband had taken to calling the soon-to-be-baby "Bug" and variations thereon. Mom therefore requested I crochet some sort of plush bug baby toy that she could give to them. Not a ladybug, because they knew the baby was going to be [medically assigned as] a boy (and I guess weird gender essentialism reasons; or maybe they just didn't feel like explaining all the time that, yes, they knew their baby was a boy, and no they didn't care; or maybe they just knew that ladybugs' full official title is "ladybird beetle" and are particularly picky about entomology and etymology; most likely the first, though), but some sort of bug would be great, with a black dog as a backup option. I thought about it for a while, and then it came to me: A lightning bug!

With a little design work, I whipped up a pattern I was happy with and pulled the lightning bug together. It turned out super adorable, and Mom was quite pleased with my work. I also heard secondhand that Mom's coworker also loved it. Today, Mom's coworker sent a card home to me. Inside was a message complimenting me on my crochet skills, informing me that the baby loves playing with the lightning bug, and asking if I would be interested in taking a commission to make a hat with bug antenna for the baby (which: ABSOLUTELY I WOULD!). It also included a screamingly adorable picture of the baby in question, hugging the stuffed lightning bug in question. It is soooooooo CUTE! The lightning bug is practically a third the baby's size in the picture, too o_O So that's a nice thing. I should whip up another lightning bug that I can take pictures of, and then offer the pattern at my Etsy store.

...It also occurs to me that I might finally have a reason to buy some of that ridiculous neon colored yarn now. Neon yellow would be about perfect for a lightning bug butt. Though honestly, wouldn't a rainbow range of lightning bugs be awesome, too?

I think I had another pick-me-up, but damned if I can remember it. Last breakfast shift tomorrow, so sleep now, other stuff later.