Dear JJ, By the time I publish this, you will have already passed. As I type this, you are lying next to me on my bed, panting and struggling for each breath. The selfish part of me keeps praying that with each breath, there is another one that follows. But I know that it is almost [...]
Ever since I've discovered how to make earl grey pastry cream, I've been meaning to do a step-by-step photo post. I first came up with the recipe for this Earl Grey Pie for a Pi day wedding last year. I modeled the pie after Pie Hole's Earl Grey pie and the recipe has been adapted from Tartine [...]
It's October and once again, I'm asking myself where the time has gone. I've already been in school for over a month now and we've started preparing for midterms. Despite it, October is one of my favorite months. I'm currently in Southern California where it seems as if summer wants to extend her stay. To [...]
The marriage of bacon and maple. I've always seen bacon and maple donuts as well as bacon and maple cupcakes, but haven't seen very much of them on a cookie. For work this week, we are hosting an event in which the theme for the night is bacon. I was asked to make a small [...]
"What've you been up to?" is the question I have encountered most, yet have no idea how to respond. Part of it is because I have been attending to the most random this and that of chores and errands, yet another part sheepishly acknowledges the sleeping-relaxing-and-doing-nothing part of my summer. Nonetheless, I cannot believe school [...]
The Kitchen Harvest 