i think about buying an oven thermometer, but i haven't had any problems yet...

made this hawaiian sweet bread. it was...ok. not as fluffy and soft as the kind you buy, but it tasted about the same. but the lack of softness was not in its favor.

mapo tofu for sunday's dinner, but i managed to slightly burn it, or maybe it was the new chili sauce i was using. in any case, a disappointment, although edible.

then made very good lasagna, sort of following this and the recipe on the back of the box. but with frozen spinach instead of meat.
this lasted a very long while.

on tuesday i went down to new york, and got a falafel sandwich from grand central station. i forgot how much i love falafel.

then my friend sent me ginger pound cake from kentucky. she is the best. however, i had been thinking about making cookies for a while, so i made those- the oatmeal lace cookies from the joy of cooking.

and finally, made MORE bread because, apparently, i don't know what else to do with myself. i did buy a half-off ciabatta last week, but maybe that's the last bread i'll buy for a while. home baking, again, did not disappoint with "robin's bread" which was a semi-whole wheat bread. of course, the recipe wanted 3 loaves, so i 2/3-rded it, which makes me nervous since it allows for a lot of arthimetic mistakes. but it turned out very nicely, although i'm not sure if i would add sunflower seeds again. (or maybe just not these, roasted and unsalted from trader joes. maybe i want raw ones?)