Well, this week has not been a good cooking-quest week, many thanks to the flu (or whatever ghastly cousin to the flu has been battling my immune system). It has been a week of wallowing at home, shuffling to the stove to heat up Campbell's tomato soup and snuggling under a blanket to watch cheery movies through rheumy, squinting eyes.
But! I think my immune system has won the war, as my fever broke today. Though I am left to deal with the immuno-wartime wreckage that is my ever-running nose, too-frequent sneezes and achey skin (whose idea was that for a symptom? aching skin??), I did manage to update my etsy site with new wares and a new, cleaner look.
I haven't had anything up for sale since the start of school as I've been very busy with work, but now I think I've got a better handle on things and can hopefully make a little bit of ingredient-buying money! Yummy things like vanilla beans don't just walk themselves into one's fridge, sadly. Now that it's November (or, as my sister says, "ALMOST CHRISTMAS!!!"), I'm really looking forward to trying some different holiday baking recipes.
Til next time, I wish you good health and assiduous hand-washing.
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