Recipes for everyday life
My favorite dishes in a Chinese dim sum restaurant have to be the pastries: egg custard tarts, fried sesame balls, and roast pork puff pastry. And I’m always trying to replicate them at home. I know you might ask, why go through all that trouble to make something you can […]
I did something really silly. I just finished writing the content for this post and it magically disappeared as I was about to click the publish button. Argh. I had planned to tell you about how I never liked olives until I tried kalamata olives for the first time, how […]
Despite the fact that I appear to be an advocate of more-than-occasional indulgences, I actually do have a few tricks up my sleeves for healthy eating. When I was in law school, I developed a very bad case of acid-reflux. Even with the best of intentions to eat breakfast before […]
You knew this was coming, right? I couldn’t possibly give you a bowl of warm, creamy tomato soup and leave you hanging without something to go along with it. Usually when I’ve cooked something scrumptious, I try to be good and sample a small portion, and then put away the […]
It’s been a while since I promised to show you how to make pineapple flowers. And you’ve stuck around for this long. Forgive me? I know you would. Aren’t these pineapple flowers gorgeous? I saw them in a food magazine once and knew I had to try to make them. […]
