AHHH. This month has been busy. That is my story. Anyway, I went to a housewarming party earlier this month and volunteered to bring dessert. I still had red velvet cake mix on hand from the last time I made red velvet cake cookies, so I wanted to go that route. I browsed some red [...]
I grew up eating Chinese pineapple buns and I’ve also been wanting to try my hand at making bread – Asian breads in particular – so this was a logical one to start with, for me. My favorite new fact about pineapple buns, thanks to Wikipedia, is: In 2005, “Pineapple Bun” was nominated as a [...]
I woke up last Wednesday to a smattering of snow and work was cancelled. It’s funny how snow days become such a mixed blessing as you get older, especially when you have to make up missed hours at work. I slept a little longer but then decided I would bake! I had to figure out [...]
For my mom’s birthday this past weekend, I gave her two options of cake to choose from – chocolate-honey cake and espresso-biscoff cake. I warned her that neither one would look as pretty as they do in the pictures. My mom chose the latter. In case you don’t know, Biscoff is a type of cookie [...]
Greg and I recently cooked a whole big pot of good ol’ Japanese-style beef curry. It was one of the staples of our semester in Japan way back when we were young college folk. The recipe looked really intense, but it’s definitely doable – it just takes a very long time. We probably even should’ve [...]
Haa. Last week I made some cookies for my coworkers for Valentine’s Day. And then I gave Greg some leftovers. I do Valentine’s Day so right. I wanted to make beautiful red velvet sandwich cookies (I’ve made them before and they were delicious), but then I realized that in making sandwich cookies, you end up [...]
Lots of recipes are about to go down in this post! The superb owl comes around once a year and it can be pretty exciting. This year pitted some Ravens against some 49ers, and obviously the birds were going to win because 49ers are gold prospectors from 1849, so I imagine they’re a little sluggish. [...]
My coworker, and more specifically, my teammate, turned 30/31 (American/Chinese ages, respectively, haha) at the end of January. I asked him what kind of cake he wanted for his birthday and he said durian. If you’ve never had durian, just…follow your nose. I gave him the stink(hah!)eye, and he kept naming out-of-the-ordinary fruits for his [...]
After baking the colorful spiral cookies of a few posts ago, I explored more of the same website – Sprinkle Bakes. Uh….mazing. I spotted a beautiful eggnog cake and thought it might be a good dessert to bake for Greg’s family’s Christmastime get-together the Saturday before Christmas. Especially since I know that Greg loves eggnog [...]
“Swag” is one of those words that divide people. Usually I think it’s pretty funny, but it is a little grating when someone uses it as a single-word catchphrase. Case in point: when you’re in an elevator and reach your desired floor, there is no need to say “swag”. (True story, but I still laughed [...]
