It was a grey, rainy day today. All I wanted to do was sleep, but I decided that I needed to be efficient with my time. And so I was. Figure legends! Statistics! (I give myself a pat on the back.) It also helped that I got to take breaks in-between stretches of productivity to [...]
Archive for September, 2008
a rustic nectarine tart
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged baking, nectarine, rustic, tart on September 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
autumn moon festival
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged mooncake on September 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My aunt made me some wonderful mooncakes and flaky chinese pastries to celebrate the mid-autumn festival last week. Instead of using lotus seed paste mixed with shortening or lard for the mooncake filling, she made a paste out of mung beans and vegetable oil. Using homemade pastry dough and a mooncake mold handed down to [...]
it’s not delivery
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged dough, pizza, trader joe's, vegetarian on September 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
One of J’s expertise in the kitchen is making homemade pizza. His secret to homemade pizza is ready-made pizza dough from his favorite store, Trader Joe’s. The ready-made pizza dough comes to the rescue when you’re short on time. And at $1.99 per lump, your wallet can afford many more pizzas to come.
First, allow the [...]
august farewell dinner
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged baking, beet risotto, cherry clafouti, cooking, cucumber, honey dew, salad, salmon, tomato on September 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A good friend of J’s left Seattle for San Diego at the end of August. We said our temporary goodbyes over dinner with him and his wife, and their very energetic boy of three years.
Taking the heirloom tomatoes I found at the farmer’s market, I made a salad of tomatoes, thin slices of honeydew and [...]
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