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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

Hong Kong eats. Hainanese Chicken Rice.

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

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 binging crimes and said: "I want you [...]

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

Ever wondered how a wet market looks like? Visit Baguio city and its popular wet market!

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March 24th, 2009 · 12 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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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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November 18th, 2008 · 15 Comments · Baking & Bread, Other Food stuff

Today is when my dear friend Anita makes her stop here at the Test Kitchen as part of her whirlwind virtual book tour that had started last week. I have always been an admirer of Anita’s gorgeous blog, Desserts First….

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October 16th, 2008 · 6 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 · 16 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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