Hi friends, I hope you are all doing well holed inside your house. One thing I definitely miss the most about not being able to go out is going to restaurants. I try to keep my cooking really simple to save time, so I usually order the really labor-intensive dishes or difficult to make dishes [...]
One of my closest friends, a born-and-bred Californian, loves everything Philadelphia. She's visited me twice in the last 3 years and if you ask her what her favorite thing about Philly is, she'll undoubtedly say it's the food. The food here in Philly is really amazing. Without a doubt, the most famous food export is [...]
You guys, I've been wanting to make this for soooooo long. So I've been going back and forth on whether or not I should get a bamboo steamer. There are so many Chinese goodies I want to make, but they all require using a steamer. Something in me always cheapened out and I never [...]
If macarons are the finicky, pain-in-the-butt to make cookies, then castellas are the macaron-equivalent of a cake. At first glance, castellas don't look super difficult. It's a loaf cake. What can be so hard about it? Well, the hardest part is keeping the shape once it's out of the oven. A lot of times, [...]
Yesterday was Mother's Day, and I didn't get to celebrate with my mom since we live on opposite coasts of the country. But in reflecting about my childhood with my mom, I am often brought back to going to Asian grocery stores (mainly 99Ranch). Like most grocery stores, Asian grocery stores often come equipped with [...]
I've been binging Great British Bake Off lately, and there was this one episode where for the technical challenge, the bakers had to make bread, but it was on the stovetop. Naturally, all the bakers were very perplexed and didn't know what to do. I just kept shouting at the screen "I. could. totally. win. [...]
This year, I gave up flour for Lent. That means goodbye cookies, cakes, bread, and pasta. Hello rice and potatoes! I'm surprised by how many delicious dishes I am able to eat without breaking Lent. One of my favorites - Vietnamese spring rolls. I always order these when I go out to a Vietnamese restaurant. [...]
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