My first crack at a gluten free recipe turned out pretty well. I scoured Pinterest for ideas, and finally came upon a recipe from My New Roots which used spelt flour (which turns out does have gluten, but tends to be less upsetting than wheat) and a tasty tomato sauce from Green Kitchen Stories.
The recipe made enough dough for two medium size pizzas, which served three people and a few small slices as leftovers. The first pizza, pictured, was topped with tomato sauce, mushrooms, red peppers and fresh buffalo mozarella. The second was topped with an olive oil/garlic glaze, mushrooms, zucchini and Sauvagine cheese. Although the spelt made for a more dry crust, I’ll definitely try it again as it’s fun to diversify different flours used, mm!
Unfortunately, I’ll have to wait a little while to try my next baking recipe as our oven died this morning!
This bouquet is definitely inspiring me to head down to the Experimental Farm and pick up some fuzzy typha (cattails/bullrushes) to make creative arrangements.
String Theory Colours
Born in Mexico City, surrounded by the intensity and colour Gabriel Dawe explores textiles and embroidery of Mexican culture that was forbidden for him as a boy growing up.“Because of this, his work is subversive of notions of masculinity and machismo that are so ingrained in his culture. By working with thread and textiles, Dawe’s work has evolved into creating large-scale installations with thread, creating environments that deal with notions of social constructions and their relation to evolutionary theory and the self-organizing force of nature.”
( via butdoesitfloat )
Summer is… my morning coffee taken on the beach, a mid-afternoon outing on the Canal, a swig of bubbly, a nightime fire before stargazing. Summer is… sorely missed.
The Russian Empire in Color: Photography from 1909 - 1912
We are so used to black and white photography from the early 1900s, that it almost comes as a shock when you see these beautiful pictures by photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944). “He took three black and white images in fairly quick succession, using red, green and blue filters, allowing them to later be recombined and projected with filtered lanterns to show near true color images. Above a few of the hundred images made available by the Library of Congress, which purchased the original glass plates back in 1948.”
Have a look at the beautiful spread over at Ajanaku!
Another creative piece of architecture by Jean Nouvel (Musee du Quai Branly, Fondation Cartier), this time creating a sort of glass case for a restored carousel in New York City. Fantastic slideshow here.
