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lotus paste and red bean mooncakes

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For as long as I can remember, the Mid-Autumn Festival has been one of my favorite holidays. It means it’s time for the best dessert known to me–mooncakes. I am obsessed with mooncakes. Dense and rich, with intensely sweet, velvety-smooth fillings and a vermilion salted yolk in the center, they’re so good that I used to wait all year for ...

red bean ice cream

It's Monday!  (I was going to say "Happy Monday," but, you know, Monday.)  In the off chance that ice cream will make it better, here's one of my favorites.  Even in my days as a

salmon en papillote

My mom makes a killer pan-seared salmon.  I don't know whether I've devoted any time yet here to my mother and her cooking, which is honestly a travesty, since she's one of the best cooks I know. ...