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June 20th, 2010 · 10 Comments · Other Food stuff

I thought it would be fun to enter my cupcakes to Thoughtfully Simple’s cupcake decorating contest. Please vote for my cupcakes here .
Thanks! Now I gotta go bake some macarons!

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March 12th, 2010 · 31 Comments · Food and Travel, More Kitchen Musings, Other Food stuff

… sparks a quest for the perfect Hainanese chicken rice.
But before anything else, welcome to my brief round up of Hong Kong eats. Brief because when I checked my pictures, a lot of food pictures were missing due to overeager eaters … again.

My "muni-muni" (soul-searching) pose
The picture above was a product of my recent addiction [...]

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March 7th, 2010 · 26 Comments · Food and Travel, More Kitchen Musings, Other Food stuff

"The hot chocolate hut"    photo by: Mark Perez
If there was one reservation that the "Hungry" Hubby had about me being in the Philippines for 5-6 weeks was that I’d come back the size of a whale. So he had a talk with my two brothers, who were the usual suspects and associates in my food [...]

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March 3rd, 2010 · 27 Comments · Food and Travel, More Kitchen Musings, Other Food stuff

What can I say? I’ve been MIA for more than a month. Some of you knew I went home to the Philippines, while some of you emailed me wondering if I had turned my back on blogging. The truth is, when you stop blogging for a couple of weeks because someone still had dial-up internet [...]

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March 24th, 2009 · 11 Comments · Other Food stuff

Photo Credit: guides.clickthecity.com Was I-em-ming with my brother who lives in the Philippines and he was telling me about this restaurant called FU that he had gone to recently. No one gets Peking Duck really right in Richmond, Va -…

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January 16th, 2009 · 51 Comments · Other Food stuff

Dots Cupcake Calendar 2009 Dots Cupcake in Pasedana, California just came out with the most adorable calendar of this much-loved sweet. I think I am in the grips of a very bad case of cupcake fever and ordered more than…

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January 2nd, 2009 · 12 Comments · Other Food stuff

*please excuse the crappy photo…bad lighting- and no degree of food styling would have helped :) This past holiday season, after attending several parties, I realized I am not a maker of side dishes. I blame it on culture -…

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December 15th, 2008 · 5 Comments · Other Food stuff

Each year the blogging community ,led by Pim, comes together to raise money to feed the hungry of the UN World Food Programme. Last year it raised $90,000! This year, amidst one of the worst recessions in history, we need…

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October 16th, 2008 · 5 Comments · Other Food stuff

I know I have not posted in a while. First , I had a kitchen disaster while making Tah-Chin, the delicious Persian rice dish that is made with saffron. I failed to acquire the coveted crust called tah-dig and I…

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August 21st, 2008 · 15 Comments · Other Food stuff

Whenever I get asked an opinion about going to cooking school, I always mention two books that would give one an idea of what it is like: Michael Ruhlman’s The Making of a Chef and Kathleen Flinn’s The Sharper Your…

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