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Homemade Bread, Macarons, Almondine, and Bouchon (again)

This is to back track everything that has happened the entire week or so. Starting with some homemade bread.

I made this bread before I actually ate out with my aunt (the one who’s visiting from Hong Kong) from my earlier post, at Chung Moo Roo but since I don’t really have a real recipe for you to write about except that it’s a very close derivative of Rose Levy Beranbaum’s Cinnamon Raisin Bread from The Bread Bible except that I used whole wheat flour (about 15 – 20% total) to make it healthy.

My aunt is somewhat of a health conscious person, so that’s why I did that. However, I did make it a bit “bad” by making a barely sweetened chocolate paste for the swirl portion of the bread. All I did was use about 1/2 cup of unsweetened Valhrona cocoa powder, 3 tablespoons of granulated sugar and 3 tablespoons of melted butter and mix it up to a paste and let it solidify to a paste.

Here’s the before and after baking photos:
Whole Wheat Chocolate Swirled Coconut Bread Unbaked loaf

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April 12th, 2007 | Category: American, Dumbo, French, Home Baking, Manhattan, bakery, bread, cafe, cake, dessert, eating out, homemade, macaron, sandwich | 6 comments - (Comments are closed)

Lunch with My Aunt at Chung Moo Ro

I have about an hour to write this post for you before I go to class. Since this lunch I’m writing about now took place last Friday, I might as well tell you about this meal in K-town that I had with my aunt and her son who are visiting from Hong Kong.

The reason why I’m in the city on a Friday afternoon, which normally never happens since I don’t have classes on Friday and it’s my (so called) Spring Break, it’s because my aunt wanted to see the Macy’s Flower Show in Herald Square. No, I’m not going to put up anymore flower pictures, since most of them didn’t come out too well so you’re not going to suffer anymore of that.

Back to the food. My cousin was dying for some food since it’s 1:30. My mother also accompanied us and wanted to get some decent food around here since it’s cold that Friday afternoon. I suggested if they wanted Korean food since I don’t like any sandwiches around here and I’m not in a sandwich mood. My aunt agreed with that suggestion and I took all of them over to K-town which is just three blocks away.

Chung Moo Ro Restaurant

Here’s the rice portion of the lunch menu:
The Rice portion of the lunch menu

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April 12th, 2007 | Category: Korean, Manhattan, Midtown East, eating out, restaurant | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)

Update…

I’m sorry that I haven’t written in a LONG time. I’m just writing this mostly non-food post for the sake of letting you know I’m still alive (and possibly bordering insanity; it’s explained as you read on).

It’s just because my aunt and her bratty 8 year-old son visited over my remaining half of my so-called spring [...]

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April 12th, 2007 | Category: Update | Comments are closed
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