Jubilee

/ jo͞obəˈläläl . mē / noun: Jubilee's cyberspace persona

Sitely March 14, 2021

Welcome!

.…to Jubilolol.me, the per­son­al blog of Jubilee (me!). I post about a num­ber of dif­fer­ent things here, most often sim­ple recipes that have sus­tained me through both my under­grad­u­ate col­lege years and my law school years. Less fre­quent­ly, I also post book reviews and doc­u­ment my trains-of-thought, among var­i­ous oth­er things — so var­ied that I won’t attempt to list them here.  I orig­i­nal­ly acquired Jubilolol.me in large part to host my (cur­rent­ly, and for the fore­see­able future, defunct) Fan­list­ing Col­lec­tive,… Con­tin­ue Reading

Baked Goods, Recipes September 18, 2023

Viennese Sablés (Marquisettes)

I have always loved Delacre’s Mar­quisette cook­ies, which I used to pur­chase from spe­cial­ty stores grow­ing up. When I returned home from uni­ver­si­ty, I was dis­mayed to find that they were no longer avail­able at any of the places I had used to fre­quent, and knew that I had to try to make some viable alter­na­tive.  The prin­ci­pal issue I’ve had in mak­ing these sablés is get­ting them to retain their ‘shell’ shape. Since the mix­ture has the con­sis­ten­cy of… Con­tin­ue Reading

Food for Thought, Show Reviews May 21, 2023

House of the Dragon vs. Modern Audiences

Not too long ago, I binge-watched HBO’s House of the Drag­on (hence­forth HOTD), a pre­quel spin­off of its acclaimed tele­vi­sion series, Game of Thrones (hence­forth GOT), itself an inter­pre­ta­tion of George R. R. Mar­t­in’s A Song of Ice and Fire (hence­forth ASOIAF) book series. HOTD fol­lows a spe­cif­ic epoch pre­dat­ing the events of GOT by almost 200 years — that is, it is based large­ly off the events of a civ­il war referred to as the Dance of Drag­ons — the details… Con­tin­ue Reading

Book Reviews, Food for Thought December 12, 2022

Emily Giffin and College Elitism

The term “chick lit” is often used deri­sive­ly to refer to a genre of lit­er­a­ture thought to appeal to young women; indeed, the Oxford dic­tio­nary goes so far as to clas­si­fy it as a deroga­to­ry turn of phrase. Typ­i­cal­ly, the chick lit genre revolves around roman­tic rela­tion­ships, such that I like to think of it as the lit­er­ary equiv­a­lent of the roman­tic com­e­dy. Now, all kinds of peo­ple have all kinds of opin­ions con­cern­ing the idea of chick lit, whether… Con­tin­ue Reading

Food for Thought November 9, 2022

A (More) Realistic Approach to Quantifying Love

You may recall that I am of the strong opin­ion that love — real­ly, any sort of emo­tion along the spec­trum of human feel­ing — can­not be reli­ably quan­ti­fied. At the very least, I don’t think it can be numer­i­cal­ly quan­ti­fied in any per­sua­sive way à la the eco­nom­ic con­cept of car­di­nal util­i­ty. But the fact remains that we as humans do exhib­it pref­er­ences; which is to say, that we like or love some things more or less than oth­ers.… Con­tin­ue Reading

Baked Goods, Recipes July 7, 2022

Ube Cake

My moth­er, hav­ing spent her child­hood in the Philip­pines, loves ube, a pur­ple yam com­mon­ly enjoyed there — so, for her birth­day, I knew I want­ed to try mak­ing her an ube cake. It took a lit­tle exper­i­men­ta­tion to get both the tex­ture and fla­vor right, espe­cial­ly as the fla­vor of ube can be quite sub­tle, but I was rather pleased with the end result and am excit­ed to share it! If you’ve nev­er had ube, it’s a lit­tle dif­fi­cult to describe how… Con­tin­ue Reading

Food for Thought May 1, 2022

Love and Relativity

From time to time, I’ve had occa­sion to won­der whether it is pos­si­ble to numer­i­cal­ly quan­ti­fy our feel­ings; that is, their inten­si­ty, mag­ni­tude, depth. I per­son­al­ly think the answer is a resound­ing “no,”  but if we were to assume that such a thing were pos­si­ble, the impli­ca­tions would be both fas­ci­nat­ing and far-reach­ing — in par­tic­u­lar, might it allow us as humans to mea­sure our roman­tic rela­tion­ships such that we could make explic­it com­par­isons between them, and then ren­der sup­pos­ed­ly… Con­tin­ue Reading

Baked Goods, Recipes April 19, 2022

Goat Cheese Cheesecake

I quite like cheese­cake, but was nev­er moti­vat­ed enough to try mak­ing it myself — until I tried the goat cheese cheese­cake at one of my favorite restau­rants in San Diego, The Smok­ing Goat. It was love at first bite, and I knew I had to try recre­at­ing it, espe­cial­ly after mov­ing away from SoCal post-col­lege. Now, goat cheese cheese­cake may sound a lit­tle off-putting at first blush, but the only real dif­fer­ence between it and clas­sic cheese­cake is that… Con­tin­ue Reading

Book Reviews, Food for Thought April 3, 2022

A Critique of Philippa Gregory

No author rais­es my hack­les quite like Philip­pa Gre­go­ry does. Put as suc­cinct­ly as pos­si­ble, Gre­go­ry — who mar­kets her­self as a his­tor­i­cal fic­tion writer spe­cial­iz­ing in the Tudor-era — takes pride in cre­at­ing sup­pos­ed­ly rich­er, more nuanced por­traits of the char­ac­ters she por­trays, most of whom are his­tor­i­cal women of rel­a­tive fac­tu­al obscu­ri­ty. Indeed, Gre­go­ry has reg­u­lar­ly sug­gest­ed that she gives voice and depth to his­tor­i­cal women whose lives “have been ignored by his­to­ri­ans, and…viewed [only] as pawns in… Con­tin­ue Reading

Baked Goods, Recipes December 29, 2021

Black Forest Cake

Black for­est cake has long been among my per­son­al favorites, so much so that I used to go to the bak­ery and buy a full 9″ one for no occa­sion at all, and just eat it for dessert through­out the week. I was, how­ev­er, much less a fan of pay­ing the req­ui­site $40 each time I allowed myself that par­tic­u­lar indul­gence. So I tried to make my own, and after some tri­al and error, this is the result! To be… Con­tin­ue Reading

Recipes November 28, 2021

Seared Scallops with Herb Butter

Scal­lops are prob­a­bly my favorite seafood item — I used to order them, quite con­sis­tent­ly, at restau­rants when I was in the mood to splurge a bit but still always felt some­what guilty spend­ing so much on (at least, quan­ti­ta­tive­ly) so lit­tle; so I thought I would try to see if I could cook them for myself. I was delight­ed to find that scal­lops are rel­a­tive­ly straight­for­ward to pre­pare! So much so, in fact, that I no longer order scal­lops… Con­tin­ue Reading