Smells like home:
Mar. 3rd, 2014 09:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Potatoes boiling in milk with black pepper, nutmeg, and bay from my mother's tree; the burnt-dust smell you get off Kenwood mixer motors; yeast beginning to do its thing in the bread; and Dundee cake finishing up in the oven.
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Date: 2014-03-03 11:21 pm (UTC)Smells like home: soy sauce just beginning to boil; fresh cut rosemary hanging in the laundry to dry; lavender essential oil in the bathroom.
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Date: 2014-03-04 12:13 am (UTC)I also got to experience the glorious continuity of blanching almonds (almonds, bowl, hot water, wait; pick, squeeze, slip), which ties me to my mother and my grandmother and so on back.
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Date: 2014-03-04 05:20 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-03-05 02:18 am (UTC)Back to the kitchen: mother browning chicken and then sweet smell of red wine for chicken Marengo.