_Leave Me Alone I Just Wanna Bake This Photos

My latest book, Leave Me Alone, I Just Wanna Bake This is such a crock, it doesn't even include photos or illustrations. The good news is I took photos of a number of things when I made them, so if you're familiar with the internet, you may have made your way here as a result of my mention that you could find photos here. Will these wonders ever cease? Well, so, here are some photos of things from the book, not in any particular order. See captions below for (scanty) details. I may add more in the future as I come across photos or make new batches, but no promises.

LEFSE - I MADE THESE IN NORWAY

LEFSE - PHOTO IN UW HUSKY COOKBOOK

TWO OF MANY LARDY PIZZA OPTIONS

BRIOCHE WITH PARCHMENT PAPER LINING

PUFFY FATTY CHAPATI

SWEET-SPICY SAMOSA FILLING

FRIED SWEET-SPICY SAMOSAS

HEAVILY POPPYSEEDED TANGZHONG LOAF

SESAME SEAWEED FOOLISHNESS SLICE

COOKING STRAWBERRY FRUITS

EVEN KITTIES LOVE JAM

THIN SLICE OF C³  

IMPERFECTLY SQUARE C³ - W/ VERMICELLI 

BAKED BAO (SANS SESAME SEEDS)

BAKED BAO W/FRANGIPANE OPTION

PAN DE MUERTO 

CHOCOLATE PIGS (VARIED BMI)

MEGA EMPANADAS 

SWEET POTATO POPPY SEED BERCHES

SCRAPPY LOOKING RAVA DOSA

ROTI JALA IN PROGRESS

HAZELNUT-CHOCOLATE-JAM HALF MOONS

CRUNCHY Qs

PARATHA IN PROGRESS

MORE FATTY CHAPATTIS

MY OWN "GREEK" BREAD

HAZELNUT RICOTTA PANCAKES (W/HUCKLEBERRIES)

FRUITY TAMALES BEFORE STEAMING

TANGZHONG LOAF & DOUGH PIMPLE!

EXPERIMENTAL PIDE (ignore weird brick)

ITALIAN FLAX BAGUETTE SURPRISE

SOME PARATHA (MAYBE THE DATE ONE?)

EMERGENCY MASA HARINA POUND CAKE

LACY MASA SNACK DISCS IN DUDE SHAPES

STUFFING SOME POTATO NAAN

FINISHED POTATO NAAN WITH NIGELLA

SOME OBNOXIOUS MUFFIN VARIANTS

APPROXIMATELY AÇMA WITH SESAME

SIMPLE DEEP FRIED EGG BISCUIT 

RICH WHOLE WHEAT CREPES (with serious jam)

SUGARED FLAX-CHERRY-ALMOND ROLLS

SICILIAN HALF MOONS (BAKED PASTA VERSION)

CINNAMON AND VANILLA CONCHAS

PISTACHIO MARZIPAN

COMPARING SHEERMAL WITH BOOK PHOTO

TEEN USE OF SHEERMAL: PB&J

WARQA BEFORE MAKING INTO BRIK

GREENS-FILLED WARQA (NOW IT'S BRIK)

VIRTUOUS AB&J SNAIL (SESAME OPTION)

TRAMVAI DRISTRUTTO IN UTERO

LAO CHILI OIL (SAVORY TOPPING)

MIDDLE EASTERN BREAD

"JUST THE KABOCHA SQUASH, MA'AM" 

REAL DOSAS (IN PROGRESS)

SO FRIKKIN FRUITY FROTTAGE DUDDING

NOT FOR COCONUT HATERS

(LUSTER DUST) CHOCOLATE LEAF 

FIVE SPICE CHERRY CLAFOUTIS

RAISIN-PISTACHIO BISCOTTI

CANDIED FLOWERS

WHOLE WHEAT TANGZHONG HEMP LOAVES

SERIOUSLY, CRICKET POWDER

Nosedive into Josephine.com Reviews

It's been a while since Josephine.com was shut down, but before it was, I took screenshots of my reviews. I hardly had time to cook for Josephine--it was a total waste of time, effort, and money, but it was a great exercise in recipe development. I also learned that selling food is a profit margins game, not a labor of love. I mentioned these reviews in my latest book Leave Me Alone, I Just Wanna Bake This, so it seemed wise (or idiotic) to go ahead and post them somewhere for y'all non-existent people who are ignoring this blog to verify their veracity. 

Movin' On Up: Cooking Classes in an Actual Kitchen

Despite the fact that I'm working for Seattle Parks as a cooking instructor, I won't be cooking in the park. Hey, I love the outdoors, don't get me wrong. And I'll keep doing the Beacon Food Forest classes. But I like kitchens, too. And the kitchen at the Northgate Community Center is relatively swank.


So I'll be teaching there for a while. Check out my currently posted upcoming classes:



Eat Your Quince 

What's a quince? Find out and make and eat savory Persian quince stew and prepare sweet quince jam! Bring one clean ½ pint glass jar. At the end of this 2 hour course, students will be able to cook 2 recipes using quince: Quince Jam and Savory Persian Quince Stew. Please bring your own apron and containers to bring home your food in.



Cozy Winter Soups 

Learn how to make three easy, creamy, savory vegetable soups using basic ingredients. If you have some vegetables, a pot, a stove, and a blender, you are ready. Please bring your own apron and containers to take food items home.


You can sign up through the godawful Seattle Parks online registration site (course titles link directly) or you can walk in and sign up in person.

Cooking classes: I should probably hype them

I recently offered a pretty awesome cooking class at the Beacon Food Forest. We called it Cooking with Abundance. We scampered around the food forest, collecting leaves, fruits, berries, edible flowers, herbs, etc, and made some nice salads and stir-frys on propane gas camping stoves! I plan to do more cooking classes at the food forest and at the Northgate Community Center as some time slots open on my unfathomably complex schedule. In any case, the class was super adorable. Here are photos taken by Carla Penderock at the BFF:

Letting the class know I'm not going to teach

Picking wild peas and pea flowers

Checking out purple orach seeds

Stir fry 1

Stir fry 2

Any Berry Apple Salad with Random Greens

Lambs' Quarters garlic stir fry with day lily buds

Diana serving up the good stuff

Classmates sampling dishes