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dessert

• Kuala Lumpur, Malacca, Malaysia, cake, dessert, entrees, fish, road trippin', travel

  Canons of KL

  04.21.10 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  Dear Blogger’s Block,
  You are harder to lose than the last few pounds from the Malaysia trip—you know, the one I’m trying to write about. The one you’re prohibiting me from writing about by completely overstaying your welcome.
  I expect you to come when Huzhou life has reached its predictable static lull, when life is nothing but [...]

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• America, Malaysia, Penang, dessert, entrees, mysterious ingredients, travel

  Double Negative

  02.03.10 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  Life is hard when you’re on vacation in Malaysia.
  First, you cannot find the motivation to put up another blog post. You also cannot live up to the one that preceded it.

  There are a lot of other restrictions on what you can do in Penang.

  Even in the winter, it’s too hot to wear a lot of [...]

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• Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Mosques, dessert, entrees, fish, out and about, travel

  Go South, Young (Wo)Man, 2010 Edition

  01.20.10 | Permalink | 7 Comments

  If the question “Where has ellis gone for her 5-week adventure?” has been plaguing you since I mentioned it a few days ago, well, your day of respite has come. Unless I told you. Or you saw my update on Facebook, which I can, for better or worse, access for the trip’s duration. So, where [...]

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• Thanksgiving, dessert, entrees, holidays, housecleaning, huzhou

  Martha on the Scrounge

  12.04.09 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  Though it’s been a week since the Thanksgiving party, the remainders were around for days afterward. The dishes sat in the sink, unwashed, til Wednesday night. Something sticky that spilled on the floor didn’t get cleaned until my ayi came on Thursday. A week later, my apartment still smells like booze. And, of course, the [...]

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• Thanksgiving, baking, butter, cake, chocolate, cooking, dessert, holidays, home cooking, huzhou, recipes

  Pre-Pear-ed

  12.02.09 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  Western/American holidays in China have a totally different meaning than they do at ‘home.’ Having a Christmas party or a Thanksgiving dinner is, at least for me, more about nostalgia and comfort than about the actual holiday. I didn’t have a big party at my house so that we could all think about the Pilgrims. [...]

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• Thanksgiving, baking, butter, dessert, holidays, home cooking, huzhou, recipes, unruly chefs

  Butter + Booze

  11.27.09 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  Bourbon Pumpkin Pie with Pecan Streusel:

  Absolutely totally butter-less.

  Unfortunately, not mess-less. Every silver lining has a cloud.

  I know Thanksgiving is over for everyone, but mine is on Saturday, so drool over all this and keep it in mind for next year.

  Bourbon Pumpkin Pie with Pecan Streusel
  From Food and Wine
  ½ recipe pie crust, enough for [...]

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• Thanksgiving, baking, butter, chocolate, dessert, holidays, home cooking, huzhou, mysterious ingredients, recipes, unruly chefs

  Bitter Batter, Butter Biscuits

  11.26.09 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  A long time ago in a galaxy far far away before my mother and father married (or perhaps it was just after), my mother roasted a chicken for dinner. Maybe she was trying to impress my dad, maybe they had guests over for dinner; the details of this have always been a bit muddy to [...]

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• Thanksgiving, butter, chocolate, dessert, home cooking, housecleaning, huzhou, unruly chefs

  Elbow Butter

  11.24.09 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  This pretty much sums up everything I don’t like about cooking and baking:

  Not to mention that this time of year, hot water usage comes down to: shower or sink? Given that I usually opt for the hot shower, doing the dishes becomes a numbing chore in the literal and figurative sense. But if dishes [...]

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• baking, dessert, home cooking, huzhou

  Three-Chord Fantasies

  11.03.09 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  It’s a common human fantasy to be a rock star. Why do you think we have shows like American Idol and its Chinese semi-equivalent, Happy Girl? Because most people, when they’re alone in the car singing with the radio, or belting it out in the shower or trying their best to croon at KTV or [...]

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• Gerald, Shanghai, dessert, musings

  Chalk A Lot

  09.21.09 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  The summer before I started high school, I was assigned my very first summer reading list. On it was Dickens’ Great Expectations. I knew reading that book was going to be an epic battle of the will when, on the first page, I encountered the word ‘vittles.’ I asked my dad what it meant. He [...]

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