This whole thing started with a craving for goat cheese. I’m a HUGE cheese hound (who isn’t?) and I’ll seize every opportunity I can to get my hands on some choice product. One of my favorite grocery stores has a temptingly extensive selection, including an “Under $5? bin with all sorts of nibs and nuggets of ambrosial cheeses. While I love snacking on these fancy morsels, some of which I can’t even pronounce, nothing gratifies me more than a nice goat cheese. I love soft cheeses, and chèvre’s creamy texture is seriously like velvet on the tongue. It also has a subtle tartness about it that tastes so fresh and crisp.

I hope you all had a wonderful new years eve! I know, I know, it’s too late to post a Fortune Cookies Recipe now, but better now than never, right? I made these for new years eve, obviously. And of course, in there are some super cool self-written fortunes. They are little bit pinkish, because I added beet juice to the dough. (Have I mentioned that I love coloring desserts with beet juice?)

Hi Australia! Welcome to SUMMER. Imma ready for the beach and christmas beetles and mangoes. {Hi to the rest of the world, too!}.  How did you spend your summer days when you were a teenager, though? I’d pump the air conditioner and sit on the couch with a doona, watching the latest release at the video …