Bullfrog (Rana Toro) by Roman Diaz

Elephant hide, 12" square, tinted on both sides with watercolor, acrylic, ink.

Financiers (Amazing What Those French Bakers Do With The Simplest Ingredients!)

These financiers are five ingredients and a lot of preparation and totally worth it. The recipe is available on Dorie Greenspan's website and also in a couple of her books. I used unblanched almond meal and pulsed it with the sugar to get it as fine as possible. Also I browned the butter and I don't think these would have nearly the same complex nutty almost smoky personality otherwise. Sort of like a muffin from Waukesha went to finishing school and moved to Paris and married a duke and took a lover from an impoverished family and got bored with it all and sold all her jewels and decided to become a muffin again.

A Big Tumbling Blocks Quilt that I Started in Early January and Finished the end of May