August was one of domestic bliss, with very little to report.

I did a lot of cooking, discovering that “highly seasoned saucy legumes with flat bread” is my current favourite meal.

As is this pantry staple meal of warm udon with a miso and tahini sauce (shrimp optional).

The girls had a wild party one night.

I made every Mexican I know laugh when I shared this on Facebook and said “Someone took ‘ponte trucha’ seriously.”

I started to make my own bread, and this ended up being a nearly weekly event from this point forward. It took a while to get the recipe just right and figure out my oven. The first one was much better than it looked, and I learned that I needed to put the rack one notch lower and tent with foil after 10 minutes!

Dodger did Pilates in my office.

And guarded my office (supervised me?).

Alma was really bad at hide-and-go-seek.

And just made me shake my head

Benedict Cumberbatch FINALLY had a new movie out, The Roses, so of course I had to go see that and have the obligatory giant margarita beforehand:

Loaf two looked better, and the subsequent loaves after that just kept improving until it all clicked.