This past Saturday, I woke up with a major hankering for a French pastry. I wasn’t exactly sure what I wanted, but I knew that I wanted it to be extremely buttery and so difficult/fussy to make that I hadn’t bothered recreating it at home — something like a croissant or an eclair. Eitherway, I […]
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Brown Butter & Honey Madeleines
So one of the things that I regret about moving away from Denver is how its affected the narrative of this blog. As you may or may not know, this blog actually started out as my attempt to recreate some of my favorite recipes when I was living up in the mountains (high-altitude affects baking […]
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So, remember in my last post, I was able to adapt i am a food blog‘s recipe for Earl Grey madeleines by panicking and changing the oven temperature halfway through baking time? Well, I spent the last week playing around with the recipe’s temperature to see if I could get a more accurate high-altitude adjustment. […]
Read the Post >i am a food blog’s Earl Grey Madeleines, High-Altitude Style
When I was living in San Francisco, I used to work a few blocks away from a Daiso. The best way to describe Daiso is that it’s the Japanese take on a dollar-store — most items in the store are from Japan and cost about a dollar, and you can find a wide variety of […]
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