This is what Madrid looked like this morning:
it was hot, sunny and not the slightest gust of wind. Instead of staying at home and nervously wait for a potential employer to call me (who said would be doing so today), I decided to let myself be baked: first on the street and then into the subway train, where we all suffered the lack of air-conditioning. Of course, there was a purpose to this outing (no, I don’t usually feel the need to soak myself in Madrid’s heat just for the sake of it… 
): I had found a shop to buy the much-missed vanilla extract I used for some of my cookie- and brownie-baking, to get rid of the ‘temporary solution’ of a (useless, tasteless, won’t name the brand here) vanilla flavouring liquid.
After a short trip, I reached an american food shop called ‘Taste of America’: a small place crammed with shelves full of sauces, baking mixes, kitchen supplies and (my personal favorites) sweets, spices and teas; there, I browsed around quietly and left with my goodie bag and my mind on the recipes I might concoct this weekend: Clotilde’s Langues de chat, and maybe my version of Patricia Cornwell’s chip cookies, which I will probably post in the near future, among others…
When I got home, the stroll had achieved its goal: my mind was relaxed and ’energized’, just in time to get nervous again after a certain phone call… [to be continued... in my next post 
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What was in my goodie bag? Apart from a box of a relaxing herbal infusion… (excuse my poor photographing skills, I’m trying to get better at it! )
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