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• Singapore, cooking, home cooking, huzhou, recipes, travel

  In My Head I’m Gone

  03.17.10 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  One might think that after 5 weeks of non-stop travel, and not the resort kind, that one would be ready to get home and get back into the groove, back to the familiarity and the friends and beds and bathrooms of established quality.
  Well one might be wrong.
  There. I said it. WRONG.
  Because actually, I didn’t (don’t?) [...]

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• Christmas, baking, butter, home cooking, huzhou, mysterious ingredients, recipes

  The Bun Also Rises

  12.27.09 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  Every year for Thanksgiving, my family and I headed out to the desert for a potluck lunch with my grandparents’ friends and their families. Though the location changed a few times, we were always out in the desert, eating turkey and hiking and playing volleyball.
  Every year one of my grandmother’s good friends, Susan, would [...]

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• cooking, holidays, home cooking, huzhou, recipes

  The Huzhou Food Jew is a Lonely Eater

  12.13.09 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  If anyone in my life has influenced my cooking, it would be my paternal grandmother, Nana. Both my mother and father are good cooks, but with the triple whammy of an ultra-picky daughter, working, and, you know, raising two kids, they didn’t have a lot of time to devote to culinary endeavors until I was [...]

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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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• America, baking, butter, chocolate, dessert, holidays, recipes

  Jew Eat Yet?

  10.12.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Food and religion seem to me to go hand and hand. My dad’s family is Jewish and my mom’s is Christian, so my brother and I were raised celebrating holidays from both religions. (And no, this does not mean twice the presents. It just means half the presents twice.) Except for some family bar/bat mitzvahs, [...]

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• America, baking, chicken, cooking, dessert, entrees, recipes

  A Fowl Habit

  10.03.08 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  I am going to take up smoking. I tried it for the first time this past weekend, and let me tell you it is cool. I know, I know. A lot of naysayers out there will try to talk me out of it, but there’s not much you can tell me that I don’t already [...]

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• America, baking, dessert, recipes

  Like Clockwork

  09.22.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  Ah, youth. They say it’s wasted on the young, and I guess if I weren’t still (kind of) one of the whippersnappers that cliché undermines, I would be inclined to agree. Youth—a song of bill-less, tax-less, job-less naïveté sustained by pizza, French fries, and candy. When long division is the bane of one’s existence, imaginary [...]

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• animals, baking, butter, chicken, chocolate, cooking, dessert, recipes, road trippin'

  Le Week-end

  09.18.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  It’s a pretty dull life out here, being an unemployed college graduate shacking up with the parents. Sure, I’m catching up on reruns of shows like Home Improvement and Reba, but it’s getting harder to find quality television to suit my needs. Thankfully I’ll be out of here in a few weeks.

  When I’m home [...]

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