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China to Whitehorse: Whys or Unwise?
First of all, I am pleased to announce that I am getting an (expensive!) Internet connection at home some time towards the end of next week. As much as I’d like to think I could handle living...
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Baked
I’m exhausted. As I mentioned in a previous post, I’m pursuing some in situ training as a professional baker. I am officially “Assistant Baker”. The hours are challenging (4 am to 12 noon), for one....
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Home-Baked
Will this be embarrassing to admit? Who cares. I just made my first cinnamon buns from scratch at home. It was so much fun, and they turned out great. They actually taste much better than the things I...
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Chinese Bakery (面包店)
A few posts from my time in China will sneak in once in a while as I go through the thousands of photos I took over the year. This one is sort of ‘on theme’ as I have posted recently on both my current...
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Bite Me
Quick post. I’ve been doing some experimenting with cookie recipes and wanted to post some photos. I am discovering some strange feelings accompanying my baking endeavours. Given my interest in and...
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If Life Gives You the Wrong Peanut Butter…
… then make some peanut butter cookies. It’s happened to the best of us. We are at the grocery store stocking up on the things we like to eat, and without realizing it, we’ve found our way home having...
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No Sugar
I suppose I could just post this and say that I meant to make a sugarless banana bread, but it’s just not true. Here is the real story. I had reviewed one of my simpler banana bread recipes this...
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Decadent Chocolate Yogurt Loaf
Let me start at the end by saying, “Soooooo good.” What am I talking about? My baking, of course. Back to the beginning. So you’ve got some plain yogurt left in the fridge, and rather than facing...
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Orange Cardamom Cookies
I bought some ground cardamom recently for a cooking project, and I had some left over. Even sealed, you catch a whiff of this pungent spice every time you open the kitchen cupboard where its kept (and...
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Lemon Tart following Spicy Grill
While the star of this particular post is an experimental Lemon Tart, I will provide a backdrop (with photos). To skip to the lemon tarty part, CLICK HERE. I thought this was a lemon tart post???...
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It’s Moon Cake Time Again…
It’s coming up to that time of year in China – Mid-Autumn Festival (aka Moon Festival). I did a post on this two years ago while I was living in Hunan province: Mid-Autumn Festival or Moon Festival...
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Pork and Custard
Oh, the thoughts I have a-brewing. Big things, serious things, existential questions. But the first post of 2013 is kind of a silly little recounting of a food experience. Yesterday, I hobbled over to...
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