Let them eat cake!

So let's just say I'm a little obsessed with delicious breakfasts. For a long while, I was making crumpets for breakfast, because they are a great excuse to eat lots of butter and jam. However, they're a bit time-consuming and labor-intensive to make, so next I switched to making coffeecake for a while (Herman coffeecake, in fact). The coffeecake recipe that I was using was a tad too sweet, though, because I like to drink lattes and not black coffee, so there isn't the nice bitter-sweet contrast.

On top of all of that, I've been wanting to try out cake recipes that involve honey as a sweetener because I have a nice, large store of honey on hand (at least Arizona does SOMETHING right). So on Sunday, I paged through the Moosewood Cookbook and found a recipe for Apricot-Almond Bread. I didn't feel like baking with dried apricots, so I substituted in fresh pluots (those weird plum-apricot hybrids), and the resulting quick bread is delectable. Not too sweet, but chock full of almonds and fruit. As the recipe introduction says, it's perfect for those moments when you're looking for something to nibble on, but something that's not too sweet. Yum.

I did it!

I have this funny complex about writing--academic writing, that is. Sometimes I have to trick myself into working on something, like, say, my dissertation proposal. Occasionally, the oblique approach works best. I start out by thinking about some other semi-related puzzle, and then all of a sudden, hey, I've opened my proposal draft and have started editing/re-thinking the introduction! Success!

Of course, sometimes this gets sidelined by more devious subconscious procrastination methods, like updating my blog.

Hmm.