Now I don't know what's happening in my life or how I'm going to come to terms with it. But we deal with it by writing my way through it. Will we get out on the other side in one piece? I don't know. I can't say. All I know is, we're doing this now.

I make a monthly list on Keep Notes for all the things I want to do/ have done that month. If I fail to do said things during the month, or if they take longer than a month, they get moved to the next month, and so on.

One item that's been on my list longer than any others this year, is Pasteis de nata. I made my sister carry the aluminium tins for me from halfway across the world. I still haven't gotten around to making it. The same with the canele moulds she got me July of 2024. But that plot got derailed when I tasted a canele and didn't care for the taste or text - although that's a whole another story. Now I want to use the molds to make madeleines. In other news I made tanzhong to make shokupan, and I made jamun matcha cookies(YUM).

So this newsletter might be less about processing what I'm dealing with and more a way for you to find out when I finally make pasteis de nata.

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Until next week, or whenever my ADHD dictates I write next!