cold and snowy...

...which means i've been drinking a lot of tea and hot cider, and hot chocolate, although that turned out to be too rich for my tastes.

a friend from chicago was visiting yale, so i drove to new haven to see her and we went to caffe adulis which had eritrean food, which seems very similar to ethiopian food, although with many many lentil dishes, as far as i could tell. then went to coldstone, where i had oreos and rainbow sprinkles mixed into sweet cream ice cream. i was going for a variation of my pierce dining hall days (the same, but with vanilla yogurt usually instead of ice cream) but it was really too rich. which meant i stole my friend's lemon sorbet with raspberry jam.

also made pain au son (bran bread) from home baking, and it seems pretty excellent. i would make it again, maybe with sunflower seeds and those little yellow seeds that were in the bread at pierce. (hmm. i didn't mean to be this nostalgic for my college dining hall of all places.) amaranth perhaps? or maybe millet, but this seems larger and, um, bird food.

i also defrosted the pizza dough from a long while back and made onion and mushroom and diced tomato pizza. diced tomato was good...i perhaps should have sauteed the mushroom first though.
and then i made these cookies, and it seems i'm fated to make incredibly crumbly cookies for the rest of my life. they looked nothing like the picture, but i'm freezing some and maybe that helps.

finally on monday, i made mapo tofu, which i love.