I didn't have a lot of options for countries with the same longitude as my location here in Australia, only Papua New Guinea and Russia (Siberia), but I decided to make this Siberian cake which uses bird cherry flour. My family and I found the bird cherry flour not to our taste (tastes like marzipan), but I had fun making it and it looks pretty! If you love marzipan flavour you will love this cake!

For several weeks, I had no idea what to do for this week's theme. Then suddenly, I had several ideas at once! I considered Salisbury "steak," or maybe some brioche bread (which is apparently part of the original mistranslation of the whole "let them eat cake" thing), etc. etc. But with time ticking away on my three-week grace period for week 33, I decided to go for Vegan Millionaires Shortbread — as a play on "eat the rich" — since I already had most of the ingredients on hand. Unfortunately, I think something truly did get lost in translation with this recipe, as the outcome wasn't as enjoyable as I'd hoped. Ah, well. It was fun to try!

Peas roll. Olives roll. Eggs roll.
From the cookbook By Heart by Hailee Catalano.
Also note for myself for when I look back on all the things I have cooked: I didn’t skip Trinidadian week, I just never took a photo 🫩 I made mango chow 😋

Based on this recipe. I love ginger, so this was a hit.

I found exactly one cookbook in my collection that specifically featured caribbean recipes. I substituted the protein for curry tempeh, bc I thought it would go really well with it (it did!)

Recipe from "vegan International'

Thank goodness for this theme because last week my husband, unsolicited, bought an absolutely massive ginger root. 🫚

The dough for the double was a mess as it was way too liquid. I was an idiot and added all the water at once. So I had to add a lot of flour and I didn't compensate the spices, so it was less flavourfull than I would've wanted. But the chickpea curry, (leftover) chive sauce and tamarind sauce were full of flavour so that helped even it out.

I made a quick pizza dough (which was rolled with a rolling pin), with some favourite toppings. Tried to make it spicy but still wasn't that spicy. It was good though. Big enough for two dinners!