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<\/a><\/p>\nAnd that’s what makes this so amazing. \u00a0I was a lousy or lazy or just non-existent cook growing up. \u00a0My tendencies combined with other cooking siblings and a family that at the time was not overly insistent about food in any extravagant way, made for one insipid avoidant cook. \u00a0Food was not inspiring to me growing up. \u00a0I had favourites but I felt no call to cook.<\/p>\n
This means that I’d never made chicken stock before. \u00a0Hel, I roasted my first chicken less than 6 months ago. \u00a0And yes, the chicken stock was made from another chicken I roasted (because it really was pretty damn easy and sooooooooo tasty and I could buy a chicken that was free range, organic, etc). \u00a0And now I’ve made chicken and rice soup from it. \u00a0Even the rice wasn’t just rice! \u00a0It’s TruRoots sprouted rice and quinoia blend. \u00a0As to how have I never made even chicken noodle soup before? \u00a0Well, not big on soups and didn’t grow up with it all the time (sometimes we had homemade, many times we had Lipton) and well, I just didn’t see it on my list of easy capabilities or something. \u00a0I don’t know, k, it’s just weird.<\/p>\n
This was, however, not my first cheesecake (I’m braver with baking than cooking, but not my all that much). \u00a0It was, however, the first one where my cookies became the crust. \u00a0They were really good cookies too, with extra cocoa, semi-sweet chocolate chips and white chocolate chips, that were super soft and crumbly. \u00a0So I embraced the crumbly. \u00a0And the jam? \u00a0Well, that I didn’t make, but my friends did. \u00a0Lemon Blackberry jam and don’t doubt for a second that they picked every one of those blackberries.<\/p>\n
This was a full wholesome meal, made frame scratch. \u00a0With scratches in the scratch! \u00a0And I think it’s the scratches in the scratches that are making me feel pretty damn proud. \u00a0The realness of it all makes me feel connected and healthy. \u00a0And the gift from friends? \u00a0That just makes me feel loved.<\/p>\n Love to you All, too.<\/p>\n ~The Abysmal Witch<\/p>\n p.s. I only cut my finger once and I’m so much faster at bandaging these days. \u00a0\ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n p.p.s. \u00a0While starting to clean up from dinner I then have this absolutely happy moment and yes, I feel like I’m bragging, I’m just so damn happy about it! \u00a0And yeah, kinda proud too.<\/p>\n FB moment: \u00a0“That moment when you look at your wall of mead and think “shit, I’m going to have to start drinking some of this, I’m out of space and there’s almost no more storage in the closet”. And then you stop. Realize what you’ve just said to yourself. “Holy Fuck, I have a FULL WALL of MEAD!” That’s a good moment.<\/p>\n (To be fair, though, only 4 rows of shelves are mead, the other 3 are my magical library so it’s not as much mead as it may sound like. Oh, still a lot, just not *that* a lot. Which actually makes it harder, not many bottles left of any individual mead, so I can’t just drink them *casually*. Snort. I’m a hoarder, and in this instance I’m almost okay with it.)”<\/p>\n Wanna see? \u00a0Well, for now you get a Samhaine picture of it with poor lighting, an unsteady hand (it was really low light! lol) \u00a0and angle to really showcase it because the only other pic of it I have handy would be incriminating for friends of mine. \u00a0In appearance, only, mind. \u00a0\ud83d\ude09 \u00a0Someday I will have a better picture, but that! \u00a0That is NOT THIS DAY! \u00a0Happy trials!<\/p>\n I know I’m sporadic about postings these days. \u00a0Trying to do too many things and something languishes. \u00a0Which is here and the podcast. \u00a0However, something is also fermenting in the background. \u00a0That’s right, my thoughts don’t sprout and grow, they putrefy or ferment. \u00a0Muwhahahaha. I go through quiet stages when I’m evolving. \u00a0I like to … Continue reading Food Happies<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3,7,15],"tags":[52,61,99,125,146,285],"class_list":["post-659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adorations","category-pretty-pictures","category-widening-perspectives","tag-cheesecake","tag-connection","tag-food","tag-homemade","tag-love","tag-universe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abysmalwitch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abysmalwitch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abysmalwitch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abysmalwitch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abysmalwitch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abysmalwitch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abysmalwitch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abysmalwitch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abysmalwitch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"