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Off to work early, to teach a class. This dishes are a towering pile, but I'll be home early, so I'll be able to do dishes all evening. Fun! Cleaning my desk also has to happen, at least a little. It's in a terrible state. I've still got midwinter holiday cards stacked up, not to mention notes to myself, old shopping lists and reciepts, business cards and stuffed toyes, books I'm not reading, mittens I'm done using, etc.

I like it.

I was teaching today, so got home early and had time to do three rounds of dishes. And make more. I've made amaranth cake, by using my standard cornbread recipe and substituting amaranth flour for corn meal. (I'm no brilliant cook - I figure I'll work with what I know and adapt from there.) The cornbread often comes out a little dry, but this is gooey, reminds me a little of apple cake, and I think it's awesome. Eor says that he can see why I'd like it, as it has a lot of flavor, but that he gets an aftertaste of something like sand, as well. Ah well, we can't all like things, I guess. I'll either eat this all by myself (not hard) or share it with my coworkers (who will probably like it, they're not picky).

I don't usually post recipes, but if for some reason I ever lose the recipe I'm working from I want to have some kind of backup.

( amaranth cake - or cornbread )

ETA 2/8/2013: I think later we determined that the sandy flavor came from the amaranth.