As I mentioned in last pumpkin bread recipe, Pumpkin Bread 1, I stocked pumpkin puree. I mean, STOCKED THEM UP. Obession is real, guys. Here is another recipe. Pumpkin Bread 1, I posted is ‘cakey ‘deliciousness but this one is more like…..’bready’ deliciousness. Does it make sense?? If you look at the texture between the 2…
Cardamom-Honey Christmas Cookies
I have been in a cooking slump for last few days. Short rib I made the other night didn’t cook in time for dinner, I burned my husband’s breakfast (I was making ‘Bull’s eye’-toast with egg in the middle-yup very complicated breakfast), mango I bought for mango relish was dried out inside when I cut…
Chicken Piccata
I always have capers in my pantry and at least one chicken breast in my freezer. So if I’m too lazy to go grocery shopping or cook anything else, I usually turn into making chicken piccatta. And tonight was one of those lazy night.I butterfly my one and only chicken breast turning it into 2…
Fennel Ice Cream
I love good vanilla ice cream especially the ones where you can see those little black dots. But my new favorite flavor is Fennel! Fennel is new vanilla in my kitchen. How would I describe the taste? To me, it does taste like vanilla ice cream, believe it or not. With a bit of an edge….
Teach me how to buggie
Since we got buggie, my motherly instinct kicked in and I have been making homemade dog treats like crazy…sometimes my husband rolls his eyes when I baby the dog too much…but come on, not like I roasted a whole chicken for my dog. (I would actually) Peanut butter and banana dog biscuits. Buggie goes crazy…
Chocolate chip cookies
It is a rainy Sunday. The hubby went to play hockey, turkey stock simmering in the kitchen for Thanksgiving and I am reading my book on the couch. It’s the calm before the storm. I will start freaking out tomorrow. Before the thanksgiving craziness starts, I decided to make him a batch of his favorite chocolate…
Angel Food Cake with White Chocolate Frosting
I had this most divine angel food cake at a wedding cake shop in La Jolla one time. (It was $10 a piece! $$$) and since then I have been looking for that perfect angel food cake – ‘heavenly’ fluffy and moist. I have been looking and experimenting…and then I found this recipe in Italian…oh crap….
Pot roast
I read a lot of health food books. And whenever I am in the middle of one of those books, I feed my husband only greens, salads, nuts, and seaweed. No meat, no dairy, no fat. It’s been a week. Poor guy. I fed him a big bowl of salad last night and he was…
Chocolate pudding bites
I look at a dessert menu first when I go to a restaurant…anyone else do the same?!? no? yes? What’s the fun of having dinner without dessert, right? yes? no? I hate when I’m excited to see the dessert menu and person you are having dinner with said ‘I’m good without it’. Wawawawaaaaaa~~~~ I made…
Pistachio and dried cherry biscotti
I sometimes go on a what I call ‘biscotti phase’. I obsessively make 3~4 batches of different kinds a week. I love biscotti- I feel more grown up. Something about dipping it in coffee, mocha, dessert wine…I feel sophisticated. This one has pistachio, dried cherry, oat, lemon/orange zest. Super flavorful and delicious. Biscotti translate as ‘twice…
Chicken pho
Temperature dropped, I can feel the chill in the air…my Uggs came out so did my appetite for Pho. When we go to a vietnamese restaurant, I usually get beef pho with you know, ‘other stuff’ in it. (Tendon, strip, brisket, meatball, eyeball (just kidding)….) As much as I love pho at a restaurant, I…
Bee pollen honey panna cotta
Panna cotta means ‘cooked cream’…not that I speak Italian…:) But I always liked the meaning of it because it’s, yes, that easy-You just cook cream, add a little gelatin and let it chill. That’s it! Once you realize how easy it is to make, you can make all kinds of variety of it. You can…
Homemade pasta night
My chef friend, John Fernadez is an amazing chef who is classically trained in Italy. The other night, we had our friends over at our place for a ‘Pasta night’. We made three different pastas and tiramisu….Seriously I have never had pasta like that in my life. It literally melts in your mouth! Emily (my dear…
Eat drink man woman
My friend Emily and I had a lunch today and someone at our next table told us to watch ‘Eat, drink, man, woman‘. It sounded good so I searched it on Neflix. And it turned out it was my favorite movie when I was very little back home. It just didn’t click in my head…
‘Mean’ fish taco
Did I say I make ‘mean’ tacos? I mean MEEEAAAANNNN. I moved from San Diego so of course I like my tacos beer battered. Blue moon though. Gotta be Blue moon! (Just kidding. It just happened to be my favorite beer.) And then there are my two secret sauces-white sauce and pasilla chile sauce…Not so…