Weekend activities - photographic evidence

On Saturday, I baked a double layer chocolate cake for a friend's birthday party, thereby using up all of the canola oil and almost all of the cocoa powder:



I believe this recipe came from my Cafe Farmer roommate, RH. The next challenge was, how to transport it by bicycle to the birthday party? I strapped a picnic basket onto the back of Froinlavin (the Jolly Roger is STILL awaiting the arrival of new tires), and stuck the cake inside, with a bowl over the top to protect it.

It survived well enough to still have a cake shape upon my arrival:


Not the most cosmetic cake, but it made up for that in its utter deliciousness. Richly chocolatey. I'm still liking the cooked-flour frosting recipe I found, after hearing sytharin talk about it.

Here's the freshly repotted satsuma tree, plus its (droopy) poblano pepper companion:

You can probably tell why I was eager to transplant it out of the plastic pot. The whiskey barrel is sitting on a plant stand I constructed from a piece of plywood and some caster wheels capable of supporting 500 pounds. Seemed like a wise idea.

And, the compost project:


I filled all three of the pictured containers with excellent compost. I hope the sight of the heap pleases my mom, who helped me put it together in the first place. Stuff has been decomposing nicely, although I wasn't able to get in and turn it as much as I would have liked, due to the (now gone) fencing put up to keep out Luna, who also really liked compost, as it turned out.

Chickpea-broccoli burritos

Some friends made us this for dinner last night (from thug kitchen). Highly, highly recommended. It needs some sort of sauce, and lime, salsa, and sour cream were pretty good, but any other ideas would be appreciated, too.