1.
I baked a rhubarb cake with a sour cream filling, using an Estonian recipe. For some reason the rest of the family who are normally quite happy to eat cake decided that this one is going to be too sour, without even trying it, so I’m going to have to eat all of it. It’s absolutely delicious, juicy and just at that sweet spot between sweet and tart, so I really don’t mind, but it’s going to take me a while.

2.
Both ICA and Coop have decided that plastic bags are out and fruit and veg will now be sold in paper bags. I don’t mind the paper bags, they work great for the veg. But I miss the plastic bags, because I used them for all kinds of things that paper bags don’t work for. I used to have a little stash of rolled-up bags in a kitchen drawer. For covering up that cake in the fridge, for example, or bringing home trash from a hike, or throwing out small stinky garbage.

The plastic food storage bags that you can buy on a roll can fill the gap in some situations, but not all. Covering up that cake in the fridge, for example – even the 5-litre bags are too long and narrow to fit the cake. And they don’t have any tie handles.

So now I guess I’m going to be hoarding plastic fruit bags. Because the market stand at Spånga Torg still uses them!