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Cardamom Buns
You may be wondering what the heck is cardamom. And I wondered that too when I was introduce to it by my grandma. Being Swedish, she commonly used cardamom in recipes for sweets and breads. But living in the western area of the United States, I rarely crossed paths with this foreign spice. It is a very unique spice that I think often gets overlooked. We like to default to cinnamon because it’s familiar and fairly cheap to buy. Cardamom is a little more expensive because it’s more difficult to harvest, but in my opinion the cost is worth it. The flavor is sweet and spicy with a hint of…
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Lonely Hearts & Almond Tortes
Loneliness is one sneaky devil. Everything’s fine at first, you don’t realize it’s settling in around you but it’s there, traveling like smoke, weaving its self through every part of your being. You don’t feel it climbing up your legs, up your body, into your mind, until it’s gripping your heart in its cold dark fingers. Even then, when it has you in its hands like a vice, you can still deny its presence. We try to fill the void with things like social media by staring at faces of people we “know” but don’t really know at all. We turn on our phone and the curtain opens, we go on…
