For the past five years these have been my go-to cookies to whip up when a sugar craving strikes. And I don’t see that changing. I first made them when I was living in Beijing, where good-tasting butter was only available at the expat supermarkets. After an afternoon of googling, I found a peanut butter [...]
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Matcha (Green Tea) Pound Cake
As an over-consumer of food magazines and Pinterest images, I’ve come to miss the cookie and cake pictures this month. Now that the holidays are over, it seems like many of us have taken a hiatus from baking. January is supposedly the time for salads and soups and juice cleanses, right? At least, that’s what [...]
Earl Grey Shortbread
Sometimes I bake late at night as a way to wind down after a long day of work in front of the computer. Mostly chocolate chip or peanut butter cookies, but sometimes pies, if I’m feeling a bit ambitious. (We’re talking 10:30 or 11pm, after all.) Yes, there are countless nutritionists who’ll tell you that [...]
Apple-Cranberry Pie
When you find yourself baking the same pie three times in a two-week period, and serving it to over 30 friends, it’s safe to assume this is one special pie. But first, I really want to thank all of you who reached out, whether in person, over email, or here on the blog. The amount [...]
Apple Pie Ice Cream
I’m a New Englander at heart when it comes to ice cream. We not only eat it all year round, we also line up for it all year round. This includes outside, in the middle of winter. For example, on sub-freezing January days in Boston, it’s not uncommon to see lines about 15 or 20 [...]
Vietnamese Avocado Shake
One of the things I like best about Vietnam is the café culture. And by café, I mean any collection of plastic stools on the sidewalk, set up by an entrepreneurial local who mixes drinks for her neighbors. At any time of the day, along the streets of Saigon, Hanoi, Hoi An, etc., the Vietnamese [...]
Chinese Herbal Jelly
At first glance, anyone who didn’t grow up in an Asian culture might scrunch up her nose at herbal jelly. It’s black, it’s shiny, and it jiggles. But really, herbal jelly, or grass jelly, is like JELL-O, only naturally colored. Whole Foods is losing a big opportunity to market this as the next “it” health [...]
Recipe: Matcha Almond Icebox Cookies
Has this ever happened to you? Over the weekend I had a frustrating night that involved two big zip files, a remote server, and the slowest internet connection on earth. The next morning I was so tired that I overfilled the coffeemaker with water and flooded the kitchen counter, dumped salt instead of sugar in [...]
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