Category: Cooking / Baking

At some point in the pandemic I decided to make mousse. I can’t really remember what led to it. Maybe I had the whipping cream, a craving, and the itch to make something? Or was it because I’d recently argued with Mike again that mousse is way better than cake. I don’t know. 🤷🏻‍♀️ I…

My first jelly cake! I’ve been lusting after the cakes by NÜNCHI on instagram, and decided to give it a try myself. The top layer is chrysanthemum tea jelly (tea from Chado Tea), bottom is almond jelly, and it’s topped with dried marigold petals from Old Town Spice Shop. ♡ I used wayyyyyyy too much…

My first experiment in the world of jelly! I don’t know if I got over-ambitious with the whipping, but it’s possible I mixed this until it was more than the recommended double-volume.. I say that because this ended up *almost* as light as the bubbles you get from pouring soda too quickly haha (video demonstrating…

I recently got inspired by blogger Sam Ushiro to get into making jelly creations. I think the jello/gelatin/jelly recipes attracted me for multiple reasons – they seem relatively simple/straightforward, they’re pretty, and I absolutely LOVE jelly desserts. Some of my favorite desserts growing up were jelly – green tea jasmine jelly, almond tofu (always mixed…

This morning I was waxing poetic over a salmon recipe to my friends, and thought I’d document it here too. 😂 Mike and I are planning to make it tonight, but this photo is from the first time we made it. We loved it so much we ended up making it two nights in a…

I found this recipe through @xomissdanielle on instagram, and thought it’d be the perfect cozy dish to try over the holiday break. The only snag was that when we ordered the ingredients for it with instacart, they were out of stock of gnocchi. Luckily though, they were out of single potatoes (for a different meal)…

My second try at milk bread! Very proud of how the sections peeled apart in the video below haha. My mom’s been following some recipes from 萨姐的南腔北调Lisa’s Kitchen and shared their youtube channel with me. I wanted to bake milk bread over the holidays this year and they conveniently had a video just for that….

I was craving Chinese food this weekend so I pulled out this scallion pancake recipe I saved from a magazine a bit ago, and made them to go with my usual mapo tofu dish. (At one point all of the magazines I got had a ton of scallion recipes, I’m guessing they were in style…

I can’t believe I haven’t made pumpkin pasties before! I love pumpkin pie, and I love anything that’s cozy and reminds me of the wizarding world. Also, pumpkin pasties used to be one of my go-to treats when I visited universal, since it was affordable, filling and not overly-sugary. I used to sell the pasties…

I like getting recipes out of magazines. I absolutely love how you can find a million variations of any recipe on the internet (customized to diet restrictions and ingredients on hand), but there’s something about being discovering recipes on paper and cutting them out that I can’t leave behind. Recently I did one of my…