Wow, what a year it’s been. My husband and I went on our honeymoon in May (for which I packed Spicy Spam Musubi). Shortly thereafter, I lost my appetite for months…because I…
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Raindrop Cake, aka “water cake,” is the hottest new dessert trend. It’s certainly one of the most Instagram-ready snacks I’ve seen of late. Also called mizu shingen mochi, the dessert appears to hail from Japan, where it’s…
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It’s hot, but you have to make dinner tonight. You don’t want to spend time slaving away for hours to make dessert, yet you still want something more interesting than just plain…
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This week, because I have vacations on the brain, we’re making one of my favorite travel-friendly foods: Spicy Spam Musubi with brown rice. Whenever I travel, I have a few rituals I like…
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This week, we’re making a fast, delicious, healthy, and portable breakfast: Overnight Steel-Cut Oats layered in a jar with ripe banana slices; sweet and tangy apple butter (my favorite recipe here); and rich,…
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Rice Krispies treats are a funny business. They seem totally foolproof to make–what could be so hard about mixing Rice Krispies with melted marshmallows and butter, and then pressing them into a…
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This week, we’re making Sweet & Spicy Apple Butter! I like to think of apple butter (which does not actually contain butter) as an apple jam. Much more intense than applesauce and…
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This week’s recipe, Upside-Down Strawberry Bars (aka Butter Mochi), was actually a mistake–a beautiful one, but a mistake nonetheless. You see, sometimes a dish doesn’t turn out the way I had hoped, and I despair.…
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[This post on Indian doughnuts in rose-scented syrup (gulab jamun) is the fifth and final post in a series about my Indian buffet adventures in Sunnyvale, California. In the first post, I reviewed…
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[This is the fourth post in a series about my Indian buffet adventures in Sunnyvale, California. In the first post, I reviewed Indian buffets and provided a recipe for garam masala. In the…