Avocado Cake

A few weeks ago I made a vegan chocolate avocado cake with lemon avocado frosting. I liked the little bit of chemistry involved in the fact that the avocado frosting didn't turn brown because of the acidity of the lemon. I used this recipe. The cake was amazingly delicious. If you think green frosting is a little strange, you could always add a little coco powder. Personally, I enjoy the unexpected green frosting.  

The Kitchen Table

1. raw sugar 2. pear and whipped cream crepes 3. dipped table legs 4. burnt is just extra flavor, right? 5. prepping for some lemon rosemary bread 6. grapefruit 

I found this perfectly small table at a thrift store for about $10. It was originally a light wood color, but I didn't really like it. Inspired by some solid, pastel color tables I'd seen, I painted it a nice mint color (thank you, Martha Stewart for making acrylic paints in awesome colors). However, while I loved the jadite/mint color, there wasn't much contrast with my jadite dishes. And I like contrast. I also enjoy painting things. So I painted it a dark forest shade, but I left about a foot of the legs the mint color for a dipped look. I really like it now.

and now for a morning poem:

Sunday Morning

BY WALLACE STEVENS

I

Complacencies of the peignoir, and late

Coffee and oranges in a sunny chair,

And the green freedom of a cockatoo

Upon a rug mingle to dissipate

The holy hush of ancient sacrifice.

She dreams a little, and she feels the dark

Encroachment of that old catastrophe,

As a calm darkens among water-lights.

The pungent oranges and bright, green wings

Seem things in some procession of the dead,

Winding across wide water, without sound.

The day is like wide water, without sound,

Stilled for the passing of her dreaming feet

Over the seas, to silent Palestine,

Dominion of the blood and sepulchre.