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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

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

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

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

Recipes August 1, 2021

Turkey Meatloaf

Meat­loaf is one of my favorite com­fort foods and can be delight­ful­ly straight­for­ward to make — it is, after all, exact­ly what its name sug­gests: a loaf of meat. Still, there are many dif­fer­ent ways in which you can vary the recipe, from the type of ground meat you choose to use (beef, pork, turkey, or per­haps some com­bi­na­tion of all of them togeth­er), to the sauces you mix into the glaze (a lot use ketchup), and so on. For… Con­tin­ue Reading

Baked Goods, Recipes July 1, 2021

Mango Cake

My fam­i­ly loves man­go, and I love cake (I do, it so hap­pens, also love man­go), so it made sense to try putting the two togeth­er. The result was this love­ly man­go cake, which has man­go puree in the cake itself, the cream, and spread gen­er­ous­ly between lay­ers and on top. I must admit that I find it a bit tedious to make, but I think the end prod­uct is well-worth it and has been quite pop­u­lar with my friends… Con­tin­ue Reading

Recipes June 22, 2021

Baked Salmon with Garlic Butter

Salmon is a sta­ple of my diet at school, as much for its con­ve­nience as for its wide­ly tout­ed health ben­e­fits. Baked salmon in par­tic­u­lar is the poster child of con­ve­nience — it only real­ly needs a mod­est amount of sea­son­ing (though I must admit that I, per­son­al­ly, like a lit­tle more), and then you can stick it in the oven and leave it alone with min­i­mal super­vi­sion, and know that you will have a nice hot meal min­utes lat­er. These… Con­tin­ue Reading

Recipes March 16, 2021

Quick Stuffed Mushrooms

I always enjoy a good stuffed mush­room, but had nev­er had the occa­sion to try mak­ing them myself until I invit­ed an old friend over for din­ner, and learned that he was veg­e­tar­i­an. At the time I had no idea what to make — my go-to dish­es for din­ner guests are typ­i­cal­ly items such as pot roast or meat­loaf — and was very per­plexed as to what to serve. And so these quick stuffed mush­rooms were born! What I like about… Con­tin­ue Reading

Recipes March 15, 2021

Tomato Egg Noodles (西红柿鸡蛋面)

To clar­i­fy, this is my inter­pre­ta­tion of toma­to egg noo­dles — a more authen­tic ver­sion, I’ve heard, can be made with just the three ingre­di­ents com­pris­ing the name of the dish. Nonethe­less, this spin-off is tasty in its own right, and remark­ably easy to make! I stum­bled upon it one night in law school when I was short on gro­ceries and unable to go out and pur­chase more, due to a shel­ter-in-place order; and so, when din­ner time rolled around, I… Con­tin­ue Reading