I spent the last four Thursdays taking a beginners sewing class. I’ve sewn a few things in my lifetime (quilts, pajama pants, a purse) but I’ve never actually made anything 100% on my own. My mom was always by my side, fixing or finishing things up when I would get frustrated. I’m a big girl now, so I figured it was time to review the basics and get comfortable with the sewing machine again in hopes to do a few projects that I can call my own.
My sewing class was filled with three women, similar to me in that they had a bit of background but just wanted to get more comfortable actually hemming or making something completely on their own. Cutting fabric is scary if you don’t know what you are doing!
During every sewing class, our teacher, Lily, would serve us some delicious green tea. We asked her where she bought it in hopes to buy some for ourselves, but her tea was all the way from her dad’s tea shop in China. Our conversation then turned further away from sewing class, onto Chinese tea exports, which then blossomed into opium exports, which then got us talking about poppies. Talk about poppies and opium reminded me of the Seinfeld episode where Elaine fails her drug test for her new job, and it was all because she ate too many poppyseed muffins. The ladies hadn’t seen the episode, but this conversation left me with an unexplainable longing for a poppy seed baked good. Straight from class, I headed to the store so I could fulfill this weird craving.
See how my mind works? I can always relate anything I’m doing back to food. Because food is always top of mind, even in sewing class.
This is going to be a new staple in my sweet breads repertoire because it’s easy, delicious, and vegan. Combine wet ingredients, dry ingredients, and then combine wet and dry. Bake. So easy.
Elaine probably won’t be passing her drug test again after a loaf of this bad boy.
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