French cheese puffs (gougère) are easy to make and great for parties. They are made with choux dough with grated cheese that is piped onto a baking sheet. When you bake them, they puff...
Happy Chinese New Year everyone! Since the chinese follow the Lunar calendar, Chinese New Year falls on a different date each year on the Western calendar. This year, it is on February 3, 2011....
It’s been a while since we went back to Yum Cha for their cheap dim sum. (I believe the current prices are $1.39 for “A” dishes and $1.79 for “B” dishes.) Recently, mmm-yoso did...
Learn how to make homemade steamed buns. When served plain they are called mantou or you can fill them with different ingredients. Although you can find them premade at Asian markets, they are pretty...
A few weekends ago, we planned a dinner at Jasmine Seafood restaurant to check out their new reduced menu items priced at $7.99. However, when we arrived, the restaurant was booked for the night...
For a while now I’ve been trying to figure out how to make desserts with purple sweet potatoes without having the desserts turn a dull gray or even sometimes a dark green. I simply...
With Chinese New Year coming up this week, my family made some Chinese dishes this weekend to do some early celebration. We’ve made scallion/green onion pancakes before, but we’ve been working on trying to...
Can you guess what this is? It’s supposed to be a castella cake (a Japanese sponge cake). Obviously it isn’t. My second attempt at making castella cake came out even worse than my first....
I’ve been searching for a brownie recipe that retains the chewiness that brownies made from a mix retain. I got a recommendation to check out Cook’s Illustrated Chewy Brownies, which is supposed to have...
The other night, BF and I went to check out Whisknladle, which I have heard great things about. Whisknladle is one of the many farm to table style restaurants that have popped up in...
I always look forward to the fortune cookies given at the end of a Chinese restaurant meal. Recently, I’ve seen a lot of recipes for fortune cookies, claiming they are quite easy to make....
Yes, my family went to Tomi Buffet twice over the holidays. You can read about the first visit here. Sure there are tons of other restaurants around, but how many of them offer all...
