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I've decided to start making most of my beverages (except the soy milk I drink because I was addicted to cow's milk, but I decided to stop drinking it in an effort to reduce headaches) from scratch. Last night I bought lemons and made lemonade, I also bought raspberries to add to it, and I bought juicing oranges and club soda to make refreshing fizzy orange drinks on hot days. I know making soy milk from scratch is actually not that hard, so if I find myself with time I'll start doing that as well. I grabbed some really cute popsicle molds, and had my first batch of fruit juice popsicles yesterday while taking a break from staining my parents deck, so yummy.

If I wasn't working 9-5 5 days a week, I'd be making a lot more things fresh. As it is, I am awaiting the maturity of my vegetable garden. So far the only things I've been able to consume from it are strawberries, lettuces, and herbs.

I think I'll make some hummus this week, I have a ton of tahini waiting to be used.

When I am done my undergrad, I suspect I'll have a lot more time to explore my domestic interests.
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Yesterday I bought tips and icing bags (3 disposable for testing, one reuseable because I can’t imagine why I’d need to constantly waste bags every time I ice) and today I am buying a mini-cupcake tin. I am very excited to bake cupcakes that are not giant so I can test flavours and not need to eat 12 giant huge cupcakes.

The flavours I am testing:
- Lavender! With Lavender buttercream. I expect it to be light and not overly sweet.

- Chocolate with peanut butter cream cheese buttercream (my taste buds expect this one to be lovely)

- Vanilla with cream cheese frosting (classic!)

- Ginger with ginger(?) icing (this is the only one that I’ll be following a recipe for the entire thing, as I have a recipe for it in one of my baking recipe books, and I believe it requires crystalized ginger, so we’ll see how that goes)

I usually just ice my cakes using an icing knife, but my cupcakes always look so messy compared to my cakes. I don’t know when I’ll be baking them. Not this weekend, but probably a batch or two next weekend. Then, after that, I might wait until a summer party (maybe a friends housewarming), to bake all four flavours so I have somewhere to bring them!

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