just desserts

The top of the Bundt-ish cake got a little burned, so I cut it off right away before poking holes in the cake to let in the decadent rum-butter-sugar sauce. As I said: family recipe. Big thanks to my little brother David for sending me a copy of the original recipe. As you see, when I used butter this time, the almonds stayed in place and didn't slide to the bottom of the Bundt pan. Let's hope the butter also improved the cake's taste.

And here are those All Day I Dream About Food keto-ish cookies. The only non-keto ingredient is the chocolate chips, which are dark-chocolate pépites. The "sugar" for the cookie dough is good ol' Bocha Sweet Brown Sugar. I'll be sad when it's gone. As for the regular BochaSweet "sugar," I've got enough to last me well into next year.

Sad trivia: the ADIDAF lady recently lost her husband. She's so cheerful in her videos.

So—that's dessert sorted. Lunch is Tuesday. And yes, it was very, very hard to resist eating all of this. I normally do things like eat leftover cookie dough (which I admittedly did do yesterday) and lick the cake batter off the mixer blades and spatula (sadly, not done today), often after scraping any remaining batter out of the mixing bowl. Didn't do any of that. And washing dishes without hot water, with all of these fat-heavy ingredients clinging in a thin film to the surfaces of utensils and bowls and plates and cups, takes a long time because the cold water only helps to solidify fats.

Speaking of cold water: my camp shower came. It was extremely simple to set up but impossible to use. Five gallons of water is heavy, and it turned out I had no viable place to hang such a heavy bag, so I said fuck it and took a cold shower like a man. I'll be looking forward to another cold shower tomorrow morning before I head off to the hospital.