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Archive for January, 2009

Banana-Date Tea Cake

Banana-Date Tea Cake tastes much better now. Well, this is a typical pound cake and just takes time to get ready to be eaten. So, I decided to upload my “sunken” tea cake to remind myself a failure. I have to remember that I should use all-purpose flour instead of cake flour to make the [...]

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Playing in the Snow

It snowed on Monday and Tuesday. Sophie and Misha loved it! (I didn’t like it if I need to drive.. eventually, I canceled my piano lesson because of bad road condition) A.A. and I took them to parks for three days in a row. We went to Fuller Park near our house on Monday and [...]

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Experience is the Best Teacher

This Fried Rice was successful.
I was pretty excited to try new recipe this morning: Banana-Date Tea Cake. All my bananas were ready to be baked and I had lots of dates in the fridge. This recipe is from Tartine by Elisabeth M. Prueitt and Chad Robertson. This book is nicely organized and well explained. I [...]

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Seeking New Recipes

Here are things that I made yesterday: fried rice with lettuce & black beans; chocolate macarons; sablée cookies. I’m so happy to try this cranberry cookies by Panipop-san. (Panipopo-san’s blog is right here) I actually baked this right after Christmas, but I was too tired to take pictures of them and I needed to find [...]

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Chocolate Macarons

I made macarons for the first time, and it was fun! Since three egg whites were still in the fridge after baking cookies, I had decided to try this French neat sweets. Result? I think it turned out pretty good. But, thing is that I have never eaten “real” macarons (“real” means by “store-bought,” in [...]

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A Happy New Year!

I would love to say, “Happy New Year” to everyone. My new year resolution: update my blog regularly. I just posted my journal that went back to six months ago at once. I think it’s kind of ruin the whole purpose of easy blog system if I update like this. So, here I am still [...]

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Events in June: Staying at kennel for the first time! A.A.’s parents invited us to go to the Hells Canyon Dam Tour on the 14th of June, and of course, we couldn’t take Sophie and Misha with us, so we decided to board them at Escape the Crate in Boise for two nights. As you [...]

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