Chocolate chip cookies. I can wax poetic on the iconic status of this hallowed treat, contemplate the abundant research conducted on ratios of white sugar to brown sugar, the merits of cake flour vs. all-purpose, and the infamous “to chill or not to chill?” mystery, and perhaps even ruminate on the special place the chocolate
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Category Archive: ‘Desserts & Sweet Stuff’
Updates, everyone! 1. I’m back in the US for a couple weeks, which means my greatest concerns at the moment include: a) when is the plumber going to get here to fix the leak in the tub? b) When is that $19.99 oil change coupon going to come in the mail? and c) Jake. Shedding
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Our Beijing ayi (ayi literally means “aunt,” but it’s a familiar term given by young kids to any older lady, or to ladies working in childcare, cooking, or cleaning professions) comes to our house once a week to help us maintain a clean apartment (our crazy cooking experiments don’t leave the kitchen in a good
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A few weeks ago, I was spending a rare afternoon moment channel surfing in front of the TV. We have 900 Chinese channels here in Beijing, and 10 English ones, so…this is what channel surfing at our place usually looks like: CNN: Still talking about the same thing they were talking about two days ago. Discovery Channel:
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It’s a relatively rare occurrence when the sheer delight and originality of a new recipe totally and completely makes your day. Today is that day, my friends. Okay, so at first glance this cake does kind of look like jalapeño cornbread or something with all those rand-o green specks in it. The cognitive dissonance caused
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So…I’ll admit that I didn’t think that the mulberry was an actual fruit before yesterday–at least not one that we still eat. I figured…eh, it’s probably one of those things that the Native Americans used to snack on and dye their clothes with (because these suckers dyed my fingers purple for days), or that the
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For dessert at the Indian Extravaganza posted a couple days ago: Honey Banana Cake! I am of the opinion that one can never have enough banana dessert recipes. Our impulse to buy an entire bunch of bananas at the market has been a long and storied one (if, “We buy a crapload of cheap bananas
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This. Cake. It lights up my life. It’s the wind beneath my wings. It has made it into the pantheon that is my top five list of best cake recipes of all time. I mean, come on. A pumpkin cake, with Mexican Chocolate Whipped Cream? Ba-BAM. It was, in actuality, an accident. We had a
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