My sister and I are Disneyland annual passholders; a trip during their holiday season is a must: The huge Christmas tree that greets you when you enter on Main Street: If you’re not too hungry, you can opt for a kid’s meal for a light lunch. Turkey wrap. Of course, I had to doctor it [...]
Tags: christmas, Disneyland, Holidays
Went here today with little sis. Almost died from the cuteness overload. Will definitely post more pics of the dogs I saw once I wade through all the pictures. For now, this cardigan welsh corgi will have to suffice. I’m currently enjoying all the Christmas lights I put up around my bed: And my geeky [...]
Indulging in the holiday spirits by drowning myself in twinkle lights and Christmas sweets: Have you ever had these? I bought these at Trader Joe’s; they’re a sort of fluffy, gingerbread-like spiced candied fruit cookie; they were a bit dry but I kept at it and it eventually grew on me. I finished the Ishiguro [...]
When I was in high school, I used to spend a good hour or so before bed just reading novels. It gave me a great sense of accomplishment and pleasure to finish a book (especially if it was good) and head over to the bookstore to pick out the next one. Then I went to [...]
Here’s some shots of the panettone that I baked yesterday; I tried baking one of the loaves in a coffee can: As you can see, it kind of got mangled when I was trying to extract it after it was done . . . Still damn tasty, though, especially with some blood orange marmalade and [...]
Just another painful reminder that I need to look into buying a new dedicated film scanner . . . These were scanned using a multi-function fax/scanner/printer machine! Perhaps that’s why I don’t shoot film more often; I’m just not happy with my current options of converting them into a digital format. Today was the start [...]
Long time no post; but things have been a bit crazy around here (people getting sick, doing some job searching, getting unnecessarily anxious and stressed out over my life – can anyone say quarter life crisis?) My mom has been sick with the cough/flu for the past week and a half and we’ve been taking [...]
Last weekend I baked two mini 4″ pies using my springform pans to practice my crust making. Crust came out a little too thick, so I’m hoping for the real thing on Thursday I’ll get it right The filling was pineapple. I’m hoping to do a Korean sweet potato pie for company for Thanksgiving. Will [...]
What I’ve been enjoying with tea every morning for the past few days: Mmm, autumn wrapped in bread dough. Recipe is on my food blog! Click on over if you’re interested. Thanksgiving is next week and we’re invited to a family friend’s house for a dinner party. I’ve volunteered to make a dessert and I’ve [...]
As promised, two weekend’s worth of doings. Halloween weekend (10/30 ~ 11/1): Tested an electric taiyaki maker that I brought back from my grandma’s house in Taichung. I took leftover vegan jackfruit carnitas filling and whipped up a spelt flour batter for the “waffle” part; turned out really well! The spelt flour gives the taiyaki [...]