The best simile I can think of is that the time spent trying to fix lace knitting mistakes feels like an awful, awful nightmare. I want to wake up so badly that I bite my own hand.

In a moment, though, my hands somehow found the right route and I muttered "Oh my Jesus Christ" aloud.

Decorated for Christmas and finally found a use for the odd sock Cecilia knit me. I forget how I'd won that bet.

Day Three Supreme

The things that are in the oven right now aren't really biscuits. I mean, there's no butter. They're not going to be flaky and fluffy and indulgent little things. But I think I wanted something like biscuits this morning and had certain ingredient constraints. This is my go at super simple and hearty breakfast bread. "Biscuits Springsteen" is a play on Homes & Gardens "Biscuits Supreme," honouring the soundtrack to my Wednesday morning off. As for the "recipe" itself, things got a little hazy, as they always do, but this is a first draft.

Simple Sunflower Biscuits Springsteen

Preheat the oven to 350!

Mix the dries together:

~1/2 C. milk pulp*

~1/4 C. ground flax

~1/3 C. buckwheat flour#

1 tsp baking powder

1 tsp arrowroot starch**

pinch o' salt

Mix the wets together:

2 "eggs"***

3 tbsp olive oil****

Mix the wets and the dries together. Add in a little handful of sunflower seeds. Spoon onto a baking sheet in small mounds and flatten them out a little. It'll make about 10 spoonfuls. Put in the oven. Write a blog post, because they'll take about 25 minutes to cook.

And so, in the future:

These are OK (or, in the overused words of every student as my school, "so-so" with a quavering hand). They get the job done, and I topped them with butter and (dumpstered!) strawberry jam that Matt and I made back in September. They are definitely a vessel food, but great for the morning 'cause they have a bunch of good stuff inside. Definitely better when toasted. They could definitely do with some honey in the batter. I definitely wish I could be eating them drenched in nut butter and molasses with Suzanne.

I'll keep working on it.

This morning I ate them with steamed spinach and pear and sprinkled with some cinnamon. Miam miam!

And I sat on the floor in the living room reading 48 hour comics. Miam miam!

*My last batch was a mix of almond and sunflower seeds.

**I don't think this was really necessary, but a baking failure this morning would have been too upsetting after an herbed milk disaster last night. Thinking ahead in this way is sometimes important.

***I would've wanted to use real eggs, but used to 1 tbsp flax + 3 tbsp hotwater per egg because it was all I had that'd work. These babies are flaxed out.

****After an ill-fated mayonnaise-making attempt (two years ago) the smell is still unsettling to me, so canola oil would probably be fine, too. Or maybe I should have used melted butter.

#This note was added after all of the asterisks, and I'd have hated to shift everything. Ultimately, the sum of the dry ingredients was about 1 C. + 2 tbsp, though the dough was quite wet.

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