Farmers Market Month: Conclusion

I am bringing Farmers Market Month to a premature "to be continued" as yesterday I broke three bones in my foot in a bouldering accident.



I'm now in a boot and on crutches, I can't put any weight on my foot, and both shopping and cooking (along with everything else) has become 100% more difficult. I'll rerun it later on when it's possible to walk and hold stuff in my hands at the same time.

It was an awesome experiment, up there with KonMari in terms of how much fun I had with it and how it changed things about my life in positive ways. Though I have to say that the best bit of it had nothing to do with literal farmers markets, but was learning to bake bread. I love baking bread! Last night I repurposed my rolling office chair as a wheelchair, scooted around the kitchen, and made myself a grilled cheese sandwich with my very own bread that I'd baked the day before. It was very comforting.

Tips on dealing with crutches, baking bread, exercising with one foot, and/or totally random comments welcome!

Anyone Can Bake: 1929 Royal Baking Powder Cookbook

After helping a neighbor clean out his apartment for a move and bringing him homebaked bread as a consolation, he gave me a cookbook that he'd unearthed from God knows where. It's a complete delight, and unlike many old cookbooks which are only good for windows into the things people used to eat that we now find unutterably gross, or for enjoyable reading of recipes way too complex or unusual to actually make, this one's recipes look both good and extremely simple.

I am going to try some. I assume baking powder is basically the same now as in 1929, i.e., I can just do the recipes as written?

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Anyone Can Bake