Orange and almond cake

A beautifully moist, dense, and comparatively healthy cake.

1 whole fresh orange
1/3 cup honey
1/3 cup maple syrup
2 T brown sugar
4 eggs
300g ground almonds
1 tsp cardamom
2 tsp baking powder

In a small pan, bring the whole unpeeled orange to the boil with water to cover. Simmer 2 hours.

Remove the orange, discarding the water. Chop roughly, saving any juice, and let cool.

Prepare a 9 inch cake pan. Heat oven to 350 F. Add the sweetening and eggs to the orange in a medium bowl.with an immersion blender, blend til no large pieces of orange remain. Add the rest of the ingredients and stir. Put in cake pan, bake approximately an hour or til done.

Golden beet salad

I made this, and it's really good. But there is no recipe, bc I just flung it together. So I am trying to at least write down all the ingredients. I think this is it. But it might not be.

3 golden beets, raw, shredded
Bunch cilantro, chopped

1 T fresh mint, chopped

Bunch green onions, chopped

2 bulbs roasted garlic
1 tsp ground long pepper
About 1/4 cup cider vinegar
Walnuts, toasted, chopped - 1/2 or 3/4 cup?
Walnut oil
Extra virgin olive oil
Salt lemon juice from Moroccan style salt lemons

Balm Yet in Gilead

Another gin cocktail. Quick to mix, tastes like magic or possibly like there was a rain of gin onto flowering orange trees in a distillery.

Use good gin, you'll taste it more than you think.

Good dietary source of consolation.

Serves 0.5 - 1 person:

3 T gin, frozen if possible
2 T Curacao or triple sec. Less sweet is better.
1 tsp orange blossom water.

Stir. Sip. Smile.