Boyfriend is on his own visa run for the next few weeks, so that can only mean one thing, besides soul-crushing loneliness: I CAN EAT ALL THE MUSHROOMS I WANT! I love mushrooms. They should be in everything I eat. When they aren’t, I feel sad. Boyfriend can’t stand the sight of them, like I […]
There’s a common vegetable here that I love, 丝瓜 (si gua), which is often found in soups and stir-fries at restaurants. It is commonly translated in menus as “towel gourd,” though Google prefers to call it “luffa,” which is derived from its scientific name (apparently it turns into loofahs when it grows older). According to Wikipedia, […]
I hadn’t planned on making so much stuff over the weekend, but once I get started cooking and making, it’s kind of hard to stop. The start was breakfast. I thought about making the usual scrambled eggs and toast English muffin, but why take the easy way out? The week before, I had caved in […]
Because I usually post before shots, I will post an after shot this year: While the first year, dinner was a cozy affair, and last year it was a party affair, this year fell somewhere in between. I had been looking forward to hosting Thanksgiving ever since we moved to our current place in February […]
Once, when I was very young (i.e., impressionable), my sister told me she had just eaten a peach with a worm in it. Not that she ate the worm or anything, but she saw it wriggling around in the peach and, I guess, ate around it. To this day, I wonder why she didn’t show […]
A couple of weekends back, we picked up a bunch of big scallions for 1 or 2 kuai. Scallions (da cong or “big onion”) here come in three sizes: regular, big and giant. The ones we got were like the big ones in the picture below (not even the giant ones!). They literally did not fit in […]
Made this a couple of weekends back: It’s a carrot cake with ginger lemon cream cheese frosting! Boyfriend once told me his favorite cake is of the carrot variety. It’s a wonder it’s taken me so long to make one, though, considering how easy they are to make and how accessible the ingredients are in […]
Blueberries, peaches, unsweetened yogurt, and just a tiny amount of honey:
I love pandan. There, I said it! I’ve loved it since I was a tiny little girl. It was one of those things that would appear into my life as some delicious jelly or steamed cake and I’d be reminded of how much I liked this mysterious green thing. Then, just as quickly as it […]
So I baked cupcakes over the weekend! The cupcake craze landed in Beijing right about the same time I did, way back in 2009. Now, there is a gourmet cupcake shop near my office, two bakeries that deliver cupcakes to your door, and a trendy cafe that specializes in cupcakes. Like everywhere else in the […]