Some Fun Happy Things

By Tamika Whitenack

Happy May! Happy birthday month to so many people that I love! Happy Spring!
After weeks of gray skies and cold weather, it's finally sunny and warm! The campus is transforming and I love it! I am in a fantastic mood, I can best describe it as feeling like I am filled with a ray of sunshine that wants to burst out of me and shower the world with flower petals.

The main point of this post is to just share a bunch of photos of spring/food that I've been making. There's a correlation between weather/flowers, my mood, and the frequency at which I make foodstuffs. Hehehehe also sorry about all the "Fly Away Home" references
I also want to mention an awesome event-a cooking class that I went to last Thursday. It was great! I blogged about it here: http://pages.vassar.edu/hvagriculture/

blossoming stairs/"light way to light"

jam tart
jam tartlets
out of the pan
pink

white

herb challah

chocolate cinnamon challah

miso soup with veggies

mushroom "dashi" and soup fixins

poppy sesame seed dill crackers


lovely

white flowers

there is a swimming mammal in there

carrot tahini

carrot tahini muffins

veggie lentils and barley

ingredients

matcha mochi


where's igor?

the parents hissed at me

long john, featherbrain

is this igor?


smells nice

cultivated spring

sun shadows leaves i love

flowers from last happiness class

its a pompom

chocolate cinnamon biscotti

they're vegan

Comments

  1. Cameron RusinMay 4, 2018 at 7:58 AM

    so many good pictures! Tufts is also exploding in pink and "cultivated spring"! No baby birds, but so many bunnies. Also amazed at how much you cook

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  2. AnonymousMay 4, 2018 at 2:07 PM

    hehe the goslings are actually from my run. no bunnies on campus :(

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