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Christmas table setting, Whole mustard-rosemary Chateaubriand roast and my portion of that meat Christmas dinner was essentially a carnivore’s feast. Don’t get me wrong, I love my vegetables but since I’m thinking holidays, I normally associate large hunks of meat to share with friends and family. That’s when I start ordering from [...] The Butch Bakery Cookbook by David Arrick with Janice Kollar Cupcakes (or any dessert or confection) appeal mostly to females. Think about it. Cupcakes, macarons, chocolate bonbons and so forth are cute, dainty, pretty, and usually come in bright colors that does not normally appeal to an average man. So, the proprietor [...]
I’m continuing my tradition of making my own mooncakes for myself and my family. (Here is last year’s mooncakes post.) The two main reasons why I’m making my own mooncakes is I know what the heck is in them (especially, I’m hearing/reading a lot of preservatives and odd things are getting into [...] Peanut Butter & Co.’s Cupcake Mix & Flavored Peanut Butters I admire Peanut Butter & Co.‘s peanut butters for years ever since they started selling their jarred peanut butters. My personal favorite is the Cinnamon Raisin Swirl; it’s like my Nutella, I eat it straight of the jar with a spoon. It’s [...] The birthday cake The past weekend, I celebrated my brother’s birthday with our family by cooking and baking a storm for him. The one of the highlights of this meal was the birthday cake you see above, a dark chocolate yuzu Valrhona Caramelia mousse cake. Sounds awesome, right? A thin dark chocolate [...] Le Creuset 5-1/2 Quart Round French Oven with Stewed duck with taro (芋頭燉鴨) I’ve been recently obsessed with Le Creuset‘s cookware. I love companies that have a long heritage of making great products and this is one of them. Le Creuset started in 1925 and able to make cast iron versatile by [...] Teatulia’s canisters of teas Teatulia is named for the region in Northern Bangladesh where this company’s tea is grown. Their teas are simple, clean, delicious teas that does not have any additives since that region cannot afford to add chemicals to anything. (If you look at Teatulia’s YouTube video on their “About [...] Perfect Puree: Passion Fruit and Meyer Lemon This year’s harsh winter season made me either stay curled up in bed in my pajamas and not leave home or bound to St. Barts. Since the latter couldn’t happen at all because of graduate school, I could do is make something tropical-inspired. Earlier the [...] If you walk into any Chinese supermarket or grocery store within the past week or two, you are bound to see tins and/or fancy decorated boxes of mooncakes for the Mid-Autumn Festival that’s coming up this Wednesday, September 22nd. (A mooncake is a dense, Chinese pastry that’s usually filled with lotus seed or adzuki red [...] |
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