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• baking, butter, chocolate, dessert, holidays, home cooking, huzhou, mysterious ingredients, recipes, Thanksgiving, 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 [...]

  

• butter, chocolate, dessert, home cooking, housecleaning, huzhou, Thanksgiving, 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 [...]

  

• cooking, Gerald, home cooking, huzhou

  Extra Sharp

  11.16.09 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  I can hardly believe that this wasn’t my idea: But the idea man behind buttering two pieces of bread and melting some cheese between them (Edam and cheddar, if you’re curious, Gerald) deserves credit, as well as a spot on the Plate of Wander cast of characters. Meet George. He doesn’t smile in photographs. I [...]

  

• cooking, home cooking, huzhou

  A Quaker A Day

  11.09.09 | Permalink | 9 Comments

  “Wow. Weird.” That was the response I got when I told TJ about what I usually eat for breakfast. Actually, I find it to be positively delightful and delicious, so much so that I sometimes eat it for breakfast and lunch in one day. I’ve never really been much of a Chinese breakfast person. I [...]

  

• 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 [...]

  

• home cooking, huzhou, students, teaching, unruly chefs

  Skippy Gourmet

  09.27.09 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  “You know,” my dad used to tell me whenever I complained about how much work I had for school. “Teachers do a lot more work than the students.” Each time I would roll my eyes and scoff. Please. All teachers do is give you work to make your childhood as miserable as possible. Duh. I [...]

  

• beijing, entrees, home cooking, less food-related, Parks, travel

  Bei(jing) of Pigs Invasion, Part V

  09.02.09 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  For some reason, I’ve never been particularly good at history. I say ‘for some reason’ because I consider myself a story teller (through words and/or pictures). And though history is one big story, it goes in one ear and out the other. It’s not that I don’t find it interesting, it’s that I can’t remember [...]

  

• baking, cooking, dessert, entrees, home cooking, huzhou, mysterious ingredients

  Butter Me Up

  06.08.09 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  I am proud to say that I was a very…unique little girl. You’ve heard about the whole Singin’ in the Rain thing, and at the start of this blog I believe I mentioned how, when I was 5, I was so enamored of the name Crystal that I made my parents call me Crystal. Crystal [...]

  

• chicken, cooking, entrees, home cooking, huzhou, mysterious ingredients, unruly chefs

  Arroz By Any Other Name

  05.20.09 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  Erik’s Chinese Peruvian Arroz con Pollo Two chicken breasts, two chicken legs Salt, pepper, cumin 2 teaspoons (ish) grated ginger Olive oil Diced pork, about a hand full 5-6 cloves crushed/minced garlic ½ large yellow onion, finely diced Cilantro, about one bunch Spinach, about one Chinese bundle (maybe 4 cups?) 1 really large carrot, finely [...]

  

• baking, dessert, home cooking, huzhou, Shanghai, students, teaching

  You Have No Ikea

  04.02.09 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  Every year around this time, I wonder what was going through my mother’s mind as she was delivering me. Of course there’s “OWWWWWW!” and the whole “My life is never going to be the same” thing, but I imagine that as my mother was expelling me into the world, there was another thought pushing for [...]

  

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