For those who celebrate, ä¸ç§‹ç¯€å¿«æ¨‚! I hope you all are enjoying the full moon and reflecting on this year’s bounty. Here’s a sampling of the mooncakes that our family received this year: Some mooncakes have a salted yolk in the middle to symbolize the full moon. I’ll be enjoying this one tonight. They’re so dense [...]
Archive for the ‘Dessert’ Category
May 12, 2010
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Belated Mother’s Day/Birthday Post
By Pinjing in Dessert, Dinner, Holidays, Photo PostI picked flowers from our garden for my mom. My sister’s birthday was yesterday and last weekend she came home from college to jointly celebrate her birthday and Mother’s Day with us. Since my mom flew off to Taiwan for a month on Saturday, we celebrated early on Friday night. Started off by trying out [...]
April 20, 2010
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Lately
By Pinjing in Breakfast, Daily Life, DessertSorry I haven’t been around lately; life has a been a bit crazy and been nursing my sickness (managed to get tonsillitis, proceeded to be grossed out for days with the cottage-cheese-like growth in the back of my mouth, prescribed penicillin and have been dealing with resultant GI tract irritation). Did manage to bake some [...]
December 10, 2009
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Christmas Lights
By Pinjing in Daily Life, Dessert, Holidays, Photo PostIndulging 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 [...]
November 24, 2009
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Practice makes perfect.
By Pinjing in Autumn, Daily Life, DessertLast 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 [...]