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Friday Favorites: Rom Coms

I know, it’s a day late. Also, if you know me, you are wondering if aliens abducted me and replaced me with a clone who likes rom coms—because as a general rule, I do not. But as I was reflecting today on how much I loved Crazy Rich Asians, I realized there were in factContinue reading “Friday Favorites: Rom Coms”

OK, admittedly…

…I’m on heavy doses of Advil Cold & Sinus, but this is still pretty stinkin’ cute:

ESC#17

This one had a Silk Road theme, kinda. The standout was David Leibovitz’s Panisse recipe, but the cake from the now-defunct Local Milk blog was great, too!

Wooden automata

Really beautiful: youtube.com/watch

ESC #15

Dessert was the star this week: this chile-lime pineapple with cardamom-lime ice cream recipe. And the sleeper favorite was the yummy chaat mixes that Nicole brought to top the impromptu chaat salad she added to the menu; I’ll add that recipe when she gives it to me. I tried to make glacéed bananas to goContinue reading “ESC #15”

Cooking and Baking at Altitude

I’ve been cooking at altitude (4500 ft above sea level and above) for my whole life with a couple of brief exceptions, and it’s a lot simpler than cookbooks make it seem if you understand two basic principles: After all my bragging about simplifying things, I do have to point out three exceptions to theContinue reading “Cooking and Baking at Altitude”

5 Months of Yukon Wildlife in 5 Minutes

I don’t know how this ended up in my YouTube feed, but it’s really amazing: featuring the Bear Backscratch Tree youtube.com/watch

Friday Favorites: Blessed Machine–The First 50 Years

There was this nice older lady at my church growing up, Bea Eschelmann, and she told my mom a story once about when her immigrant mother got her first washing machine, she petted it and whispered reverently, “Bless-ed machine.” Thus, my mom used to occasionally bless some device that was saving her time in theContinue reading “Friday Favorites: Blessed Machine–The First 50 Years”

14th Annual Peeps Diorama-rama

While the quantity wasn’t extremely high this year, the quality certainly was.

Gotgam-danji (Korean stuffed dried persimmons)

Not something I would ordinarily go out of my way to make, but Maangchi happened to run the recipe right when I was in the middle of drying persimmons this winter and right after I had made a jar of yuzu marmalade with the 1 yuzu I got from my new tree. So, once theContinue reading “Gotgam-danji (Korean stuffed dried persimmons)”