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red bean mochi (chapssaltteok)

February 3, 2014

Normally, I'm all about the Super Bowl finger foods. Carbs wrapped in cheese wrapped in carbs, usually mini, often involving some combination of "Panko-crusted" and "stuffed" and "pizza"? It is my thing. (Football, ...

happy lunar new year! (and mochi!)

January 31, 2014

bacon buttermilk (greek yogurt) pancakes

December 22, 2013

I’ve grown up eating savory-sweet food all my life. I thought it was just a quirk of my mother’s to add sugar to everything until I looked up Shanghainese cuisine on Wikipedia a few years ago and found ...

pumpkin bars with maple brown butter cream cheese frosting

November 26, 2013

So I really wasn't planning on posting this recipe. When I made these bars and this frosting, I felt like I'd already posted more than enough pumpkin recipes, so I just snapped a few lazy shots of them (because ...

chocolate cake for two

November 4, 2013

I feel like there are a few recipes that every blog should have. Just basics, like a solid mac & cheese, or a good homemade pasta sauce. There have been some that I've checked off my list -- a go-to

homemade pumpkin spice latte syrup

October 27, 2013

So, first week of work down and I’m still alive! It’s true that it’s a little overwhelming, but lots of things make it more than okay -- foremost that I’m lucky to be working with great people who don’t mind that I have no idea ...

small batch pumpkin cupcakes with maple cream cheese frosting

October 15, 2013

Oh man, these cupcakes. These cupcakes! I know there are a million pumpkin cupcake recipes out there, but this one is special to me, if only because it took me about six tries to get right. (Which is kind of ...

banana cupcakes with nutella swirl

October 3, 2013

A few months ago, in the midst of bar exam doldrums, I came across this recipe for banana bread bars with brown butter frosting that looked mindblowing. But, given our extremely sedentary (nearly vegetative) lifestyle at the time, I ...

nutella espresso pancakes

September 25, 2013

I have a problem. It's now been a week and a day of my visit home to my parents. In that time, I've baked three dozen mini matcha shortbread cookies, a dozen almond rosemary shortbread ...

matcha shortbread cookies

September 22, 2013

Hi again! This past week, I said a wistful goodbye to paradise and headed back home to visit my own parents, while Bowl #2 stayed in Honolulu for a little while longer to enjoy some alone time with his family. It ...