While I was in Taiwan, my aunt taught me how to make beef noodle soup. There are so many different variations out there, but to determine if the dish is good or not, there are two things people look at: the beef, and the broth. Is the flavor there? The color and the depth? Is [...]
This entire post is dedicated to my favorite buttercream of all time, the Swiss Meringue. This is my favorite not only because it looks the silkiest and smoothest out of all the buttercream versions, but because it isn't as sweet the others. The base of this buttercream starts with egg whites. Lots and lots of [...]
Summer is here, and so is camping season. Even though California no longer allows fire pits in fear of forest fires due to the drought, summer screams for s'mores! First, you want to melt the butter and chocolate over a double boiler. While that's going, whisk together the eggs, sugar, and vanilla in a separate [...]
We are having a heat wave! To brave the heat, I sandwiched yesterday's chocolate chip cookies with ice cream. To easily shape the ice cream to be the perfect size for your cookies, take a pint of ice cream, cut and peel the cardboard container off. Wrap it in saran wrap and roll it and [...]
These are the cookies that inspired my love of baking. The very first from scratch recipe I ever made were these classic chocolate chip cookies. That was in seventh grade, about nine years ago. I made them for my teacher to put in care packages to send to troops, and have been using this recipe [...]
The Kitchen Harvest 