food
I love trying new foods, finding new recipes to make, and creating
recipes of my own. Food is a way I love experiencing the world.
One morning, I found myself in the kitchen starting to bake a simple strawberry galette before the workday began. I hope you enjoy it as much as we did (it was almost gone by afternoon). See recipe in post.
As the holidays approach, I’ve been getting in the festive mood and baking gingerbread cookies. Here is some festive cookie inspiration as well as a few of my cookie cutter picks.
There’s something special about spending time with friends during the holiday season. Given the shelter in place in the Bay Area again, we decided to host a mini get-together over Zoom and try this gingerbread greenhouse challenge.
We spent the day making empanadas from scratch, sitting at our kitchen table. Since my husband’s vegetarian, we decided to try substituting the ground beef with Impossible Meat.
Spent an afternoon baking this strawberry elderflower lemon cake as a little indulgence to end the week. I’ve been learning more about food photography and thought I’d share behind the scenes, experimenting with light airy lighting and dark moody lighting.
One of the things I’ve learned about myself over the years is that I need a little bit of spontaneity every day. Recently, it was making mini bundt banana bread at 10pm and having it for breakfast the next morning. Recipe and links to my favorite mini bundt pans.
Now that we’re home, along with most of the world, we decided to try our hand at making sourdough. I’ve always wanted to learn how to make bread and now seemed like as good as an opportunity as any. So I thought I’d share a bit of our journey, some helpful links, and tips we found along the way in case you’re thinking about making sourdough too.
Now that we’re back home and spring is starting to make its way to San Francisco, we’ve been gathering with friends and making pie. We gathered ingredients to make a blueberry crumble pie and a savory one made with butternut squash, mushrooms, onions, fresh thyme, bay leaf, and bechamel cream.
We spent the afternoon enjoying a chocolaty teatime at Dandelion’s recently opened Bloom Salon. If you haven’t heard of Dandelion, they make small batch chocolates in San Francisco. Their decadent hot chocolate is also a must try.
We spent a quiet afternoon indoors, baking apple pie over a cup of tea. Soft light streamed through the window and draped across our kitchen table as we worked the dough and prepared the filling. In no particular hurry, we diced Roman Beauty apples from a local orchard, adding spices and sugar until the wafting smells of cinnamon permeated our little apartment.
The warmer weather is slowly fading. We wake to crisper mornings and come home to cooler nights. We bundle in our cozy sweaters, but are ultimately warmed by the gathering of friends. Some days ago, we celebrated the autumn season with our friends, Aneesha & Alex by baking pumpkin custard tarts.
After two months of travel, we were excited to be home for the first weekend in a long while. To celebrate, we headed over to the farmer’s market on a crisp morning to restock our empty refrigerator and peruse the autumn harvest.
After a restless night, I woke up early one morning and decided to make pavlova. Under the soft morning light, I took comfort in the productive quiet and settled into a profound sense of peace from the mundane task of beating heavy cream into whipped cream.
Since my husband’s been out of town, I decided to have a girls night in catching up with Jinha. We met up after work on a weekday and pulled out ingredients from the fridge to make a mini ramen dinner together.
As I’m sure many can relate, there are days when I get home from work and am craving an indulgent, gourmet meal, but am feeling rather tired. Here’s a quick pita bread pizza you can prep and bake at home in twenty minutes.
We enjoyed a spontaneous weekday evening with friends over, eating Gougères fresh from the oven and catching up over a bottle of Gewurztraminer we picked up during our June wedding travels through wine country.
For the last few weeks, we’ve been enjoying slow mornings and easing into the day as we recover from some recent injuries.
For the first time in our travels, we tried a cooking class as a way of immersing ourselves into the local culture. And in many ways, food became conversation…
One of my favorite cakes fresh from the oven is this chocolate stout cake recipe. There’s something decadent & indulgent about eating these mini cakes in the kitchen with someone special on a rainy day.
We’ve made it a little tradition to spend a chill New Year’s Eve at home with friends. In the spirit of the holidays, we decided to host a dessert-luck and bake our first tiered, chocolate cake along with several mini bundt cakes.
We woke up to diffuse light streaming through the window, lazily making our way out of bed to start the day. While the rain fell softly outside, we bundled up in our pajamas and made our way to the kitchen to make a little breakfast of honey cakes and two cups of tea.
There’s nothing quite like Thanksgiving with family. With my mom, we spend Thanksgiving sleeping in, waking late in our pajamas, cooking, nibbling on sweets, and binge watching movies together all day.
We went to see the tea festival in San Francisco earlier this month. This year, we bought early access tickets in anticipation of the crowds and were able to taste more teas an hour before general admission.
One of my favorite things to do is to cook a meal with local ingredients wherever I’m traveling. We bought some local apples and baked apple pie late into the night, while catching up with friends until the early hours.
My husband and I both have a sweetooth and love dropping by bakeries and cafes. Here are a few of my favorite spots during our trip to NYC!
When we first planned our trip to NYC, we knew there was a lot of good food, but quickly realized we weren’t going to able to cover them all. So here are the places we did try.
We decided to go on a mini picnic this weekend with our friend Kader. We’ve been dog sitting this weekend and figured it’d be a fun afternoon treat for Bori to enjoy the beach with a little tea time for ourselves.
We dropped by this cafe while we were in the neighborhood and in need of a coffee. The decor was beautiful inside, bright and airy. It seemed like the perfect spot to people watch or read a book in the morning.