Itsy Bitsy Adorable Brownies for Taipeiren (and Me) from KP Kitchen
Chúc mừng năm mới, y’all! Today is the blissfully silent, empty first day of Tet and Saigon has emptied out and shut down almost completely, with the ever-banging construction sites falling silent and the manic roads looking pleasingly post-Apocalyptic. Pollution…
You Need More Chocolate Zucchini Bread in Your Life (and Tummy)
This post has been open in my tabs for nearly half a year. Seriously. It’s that bad. This little sleepy southern corner of Saigon is the new land of the lotus eaters, with watermelon juice and pho replacing the druggy lôtos.…
Decadent Bourgeois Coconut Macaroons
These ones were impromptu. I’d already had a plan for the day and it didn’t involve dipping things in chocolate ganache- though I am never averse to dipping anything in ganache if the opportunity presents itself. I was on a…
HangZhou Rearranged Chocolate Apple Cake
I actually left the flat this past weekend. In fact, I even left Shanghai. For the past two months, I’ve been like the love child of an eccentric hermit and a domestic goddess, holed up in our cozy flat, dusted…
Chewy Oatmeal Cookies, to Stave Off the Ennui
For those of you who notice such things, my other blog, the impractical one, has been lying fallow for a while now. I have no excuses. It’s not as though I’m swamped with work these days either. In fact, October…
Hóng Pútáojiǔ Chocolate Birthday Cake
This one had been sitting around in my drafts folder for ages, neatly cut and pasted but never attempted. It just seemed so incredibly decadent that I knew a) I had to make it and b) it had to be…
Disarmingly Practical Sino-Happy Chocolate Cake
Next Tuesday, I’m turning 37 so I decided to make myself a cake a week in advance, for my Thursday breakfast. 37 is a weird age to be turning because it holds absolutely no significance. It’s not a milestone. It…
