Baking!

How to keep busy: sculpting marzipan koi fish (note to self: does not work with homemade marzipan), learning to make marshmallow fondant (stickiest substance on god's green earth!) and deep-frying homemade apple cider donuts in a 1/2 quart saucepan (worked great, but all the frying credit goes to Eric).

And now for the food porn:

(almond cake soaked in whiskey, covered in marshmallow fondant (which was pretty but too sweet) and topped with marzipan koi fish)

(homemade apple cider donuts and donut holes made without a donut maker or a deep-fryer!)