a bowl of comfort

We can’t complain too much about the weather in San Francisco, but it has gotten noticeably chillier over the past two weeks. Any outing requires us to bundle up in thick sweaters, coats, and mittens in preparation for the nippy air. On days like these, all J and I want after coming in from the cold [...]

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in just a bit…

I’ve been meaning to get around to posting about our trip to Mexico. It will happen soon, over the next few days (I hope). Oh, please go and buy yourself some persimmons, the Hachiya variety. Get them ripe, as if they were ready to rupture — skin paper-thin and flesh soft and squishy. Wash the [...]

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autumn moon festival

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 [...]

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a cuppa joe

if necessity is the mother of invention, then it goes without saying that laziness is the mother of shortcuts. i was invited to a housewarming party on sunday, and i had promised early on to bring a batch of cupcakes. by friday, i still hadn’t decided what kind i would make. then saturday rolled around, [...]

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