Christopher

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Baked goods, some ADHD, and my dog.

A black lab sitting in the grass holding a black soccer ball in her mouth. The vibe of the photo is that she’s in elementary school and brought a toy for show and tell.
Progress video of the cake after having been cooled down, filled, and rolled up. It then abruptly cuts at the end to one that had exploded while rolling up.
A pandan coconut roll cake on a mint green cake stand.
A person (presumably Dutch) dressed in blackface as Zwarte Piet.
Twelve unbaked mini pecan pies in a muffin pan. There’s a tab of baking parchment beneath each.
A video of a clay pot with a black lid. A white hand lifts the lid with a green textured tea towel, revealing boiling broth with bright green bok choy leaves and maitake mushrooms. Not visible, but present within the soup are slices of extra firm tofu, slices of kobocha, and ginger-chicken meatballs. The broth is made with dashi, light soy sauce, sake, and a splash of rice vinegar.
Facing the viewer is a 3d printed earth elemental that has been painted to look like stone. It appears to have dirt and grass growing out of its crannies and the base looks like a summer grassland. The “dirt” is savory seasoning salt, and the “dried grass” is a mixture of herbs de Provence and oregano, that has all been applied with watered down matte modge podge PVA glue. I’ve also dry brushed a bit more white paint to bump the highlights after applying the texture.
A 3d printed miniature of a hulking rock creature standing facing the viewer. It’s has been amateurly painted to look like stone. At the base where its left foot attaches to the base, there’s a splotch of a green that is way too bright for the rugged aesthetic I was going for.
A map of the United States from 2009 that has been overlayed with the map of AT&T’s network. It is from the post-GFC leaks about the NSA monitoring of Internet traffic.
A glass dish on a floral cloth. The glass dish holds a mascarpone cherry tart with a homemade graham crust. An attempt was made to make the cherries alternate in an attractive fashion. But it looks a little rustic. The filling is a handmade mascarpone whipped cream and it tastes good. So long as Paul Hollywood doesn’t see, I think I’m ok.
A round baking dish of a rice pudding with a large slice taken out. The pudding is hard set, and from the visible side where the slice is missing you can see dried cherries mixed in. The top is unevenly sprinkled with sliced almonds, so it looks rather rustic.
A digital painting/sketch of a white man with a beard and round rimmed glasses he’s got long hair pulled up into a messy bun. The painting is very blotchy and the grey in my beard could be better.
A tray of sixteen honey financiers baking in a mini muffin baking sheet. Half have almonds on top and the other half have a couple blueberries inside. There’s also a fine layer of flour from when I greased and floured the pan.
A photo of the back of my right leg taken in a mirror, there’s a tattoo of a daruma on my calf but it’s mostly turned away as the focus is on a gigantic bruise on my biceps femoris with a long scrape through the middle. With the scrape dividing it, the bruise looks like the Eye of Sauron from Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings films…
A potato and leek pie with a golden crust and six vents cut into it rests on a pink cloth. In the background are some wire brush pine trees and my green onions regenerating.
My breakfast today, a bowl of steel cut oats spiced with cinnamon, cardamom, and ground ginger. It is topped with hastily pralined hot cross bun croutons and a fan of sliced apples. The hot cross bun was vegan, but the whole thing isn’t. In the background is a blue La creuset stovepot and a frying pan because the whole photo is on the top of my stove.
Uncooked bread pudding topped with frangipane and candied almond slivers. It’s sitting on a stove in a water bath, waiting for the oven to finish preheating so it can go in to bake.
A bowl of soup and dumplings with a slice of buttered whole wheat bread fresh from the oven resting on the rim of the bowl. The slice of bread is flatter than it should be, but there are a couple pats of butter not quite spread over it. My journal is in the background and it’s covered with vinyl stickers one of which is a pink name tag reading “Hello, I’m…” and the part where you’d write your name is “I’m doing my best”
A black lab balancing a carrot top on her nose. Then, rather than catching it she drops it on the floor and eats it there.
A loaf of bread and a bowl of Italian wedding soup. Behind, my kitchen sideboard is a bit cluttered
A loaf of bread fresh from the oven with a nice light powdering of flour from the second rise still on the crust. It is resting on toasted parchment paper in a blue dutch oven.
Bread pudding in a blue enameled dish resting on a tea towel and a bunch of holiday fir boughs
Torn hunks of two kinds of panettone soaking in egg custard in a blue enameled dish.
Five unbaked scones on a baking sheet. The tops have been brushed with milk and droplets of milk are splattered on the parchment paper below.
A squat, lumpy rectangle of mascarpone scone dough resting on a square of baking parchment. An open bag of flour, a balloon whisk, and vampire spatula are also in the photo.
A lamb roast tied up with butchers twine sits on a bed of red onion and whole garlic bulbs. Scattered throughout are aromatic herbs like rosemary and thyme. It’s all in a blue dutch oven and sitting on a stove with other dishes.
A grey platter sits on a round wooden tray on a dining table covered with a green corduroy table cloth. It’s surrounded by a pine garland, pine cones, and small tea candles. On the platter are several scones, four petit fours, and two small dishes of raspberry jam. In the back, two slices of coconut cake on small plates are slightly out of focus.
Two small, unglazed clay plates rest on a wooden platter. In the foreground there’s two small sausage rolls and slices of Granny Smith apples. In the background there is a large sausage roll and more slices of honeycrisp apple.
A blue bowl on a mini wooden peel is full of salad with three fried pieces of halloumi that have been cut out with an elf cookie cutter peeling over the rim. The peel is sitting on a green corduroy table cloth and surrounded by pine and fir Christmas decorations.
Two plates of toasted panettone on small plates. There’s a slice of chestnut, and a slice of arancia di siciliana. The table is decorated with pine cones, small wooden bowls, a garland of pine and fir, and a ceramic mug decorated with Christmas bunting.
A black English Labrador Retriever wearing plaid Christmas pajamas curled up on a quilt in a leopard print chair she’s looking at the camera and her mouth is slightly open like she has a dog treat in it.
A black lab named Ursa sitting on the shag rug in front of her crate. She’s wearing a pink hoodie and staring past the camera.