This tart comes from a recipe I first learned of at a baking demo that the lovely (and aptly genius) Kristen Miglore did for her beautiful book Genius Desserts back in 2018. The original recipe, by way of Karen DeMasco of ABC Kitchen fame, is for a ...
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black sesame caramel walnut bars (and black sesame fudge)
Last year a few lovely friends sent me a care package from a new-to-me bakery in Brooklyn called Patisserie Tomoko. There were little yuzu-scented cookies, perfect macarons, and pudgy mochi filled with red bean and Earl Grey chocolate truffle, all of which were perfect, but my favorite of ...
jeremy’s cheese bread (pao de queijo)
A number of Thanksgivings ago, my brother introduced us all to a new cheese bread recipe he'd found. An easy version of Brazilian pao de queijo, it was light but chewy, crisp on the outside but surprisingly stretchy within, gently cheesy and just a touch sweet. For my Chinese family, it reminded us of more of an airy, savory kind of ...
black sesame cookies & cream cupcakes
Last weekend, the folks behind my favorite shop in LA, Now Serving, hosted a bake sale to raise funds for Australian bushfire relief. I've felt at a loss lately as to what to do as the fires ...
pork sung no knead bread
Well, I had all sorts of plans to post here more often while on magical maternity leave, but those plans seem to have manifested as three months of nothing but snuggling chubby baby cheeks (Clara now giggles sometimes when I do this and it’s the best, thing, ever) and chasing skinny manic toddlers. Oops. And so I’ve been sitting on this recipe ...
a lunar new year round-up
Happy Lunar New Year! A snapshot of the new year around here: This prescient lady's comic series keeps popping up on my social media feeds and, as we're heading into the last few weeks of B4's residency in Casa Mama, I have to say she's onto something. B2 has been ...
butterscotch mochi bars
It’s two months of A Common Table giveaways! From now until December, I’ll be sharing a recipe from the cookbook here and holding a giveaway of one of my favorite kitchen treasures used in the book every week, and you’ll have a week to enter before the winner ...
asian pear and jasmine crumbles
It’s two months of A Common Table giveaways! From now until December, I’ll be sharing a recipe from the cookbook here and holding a giveaway of one of my favorite kitchen treasures used in the book every week on
salted yolk & lotus paste beignets
Beignets! It's been awhile since a capital-P Project has landed on this blog. Since the advent of our little guy, I've been more tempted to fill my Saturday mornings with alphabet books and trips to the playground and the occasional quick and easy food experiment than making extended messes in the ...
buttercream roses and rose buttercream
Believe it or not, these pretty little buttercream roses were piped by yours truly. For someone who is all thumbs and, at best, has a passing knowledge of how to decorate a cake, this is a feat indeed--and it's all thanks to a dynamo of a friend and her marvelous book,