mmm, sugar

well, the piroshki lasted half a week, which i suppose is good, as eating a cup of fat in one day would probably not have been healthy.
i made a half recipe of orange pudding cake in 4 ramekins, and the first one was very tasty. a little bit too sweet perhaps. the rest i let sit for a few hours/overnight, and while edible, were not something i would serve to other people. but fresh, definitely. time to try the chocolate one.
also, not to be too much of a company girl, but lipton's tomato with croutons cup-of-soup is not too shabby.
friday, i faced a distressing lack of food in the house, but i had potatoes. i would assume that these potato pancakes are sort of like latkes, but i don't think i've ever had latkes before. also, this calls for grating an onion. this had tears actually running down my face in about 5 seconds. it also didn't actually work very well. it made a sort of onion pulp, but the layers of onion got caught on the blades and usually peeled off instead of going through. anyway, it was incredibly painful. i diced the rest of it.
i made banana chocolate-chip bread from "baking illustrated," a gift from my sister, the first recipe i think i've made from it. while very good, i think i'm going to have to accept the fact that nothing beats my sesame street banana bread recipe.