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Carrot cake horchata (& regular horchata too)
Black walnut scoop and spoon: Polder’s Old World Market; vanilla extract: Oh, Ladycakes; ceramics: Speck & Stone, The Fortynine Studio, Akiko Graham via The-Commons; tea towel: Fog Linen. So I’m...
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Mango pomelo sago, with haupia.
I’ve written a lot about how much I love the food in Hong Kong. I’ll probably write more even after this. I’m a food-oriented person to begin with (I know, shocker) and the places I’ve been and the...
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Aunt Beru’s (grown up) blue milk // May the Fourth be with you!
Happy Monday, friends! How was your weekend? I’m all fuzzy inside from a visit from my bridesmaids! Our weekend was filled with squishy sofa chats, pork buns and hibiscus doughnuts, ramen and peach...
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Birthday malasadas with guava and lilikoi filling.
It’s the last installment in B2’s birthday series! You can see parts one (hurricane popcorn!) and two (chicken katsu plate lunch!) here. These babes aren’t something that B2 actually ever requested I...
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Strawberries & cream miniature chiffon cake.
Early mornings in the summer are my favorite. That cool, crisp sheen over everything, a dewy freshness that heat and humidity haven’t quashed yet. I used to dog-sit for our neighbors back in the 7th...
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Coffee-candied macadamia nuts + a giveaway!
It’s almost here! We’re actually, really, truly getting married this Saturday and I’m so excited I can’t sit still. This is the last post in this series on our reception food, and after that I’ll...
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White nectarine & lychee cobbler.
We’re back! So far, married life has mostly consisted of (a) jet lag, (b) coffee, and (c) delivery pizza. Our first morning back we woke up at 3 AM, B2 played video games in our brightly-lit living...
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Fig, rose, & almond granola parfaits.
Figs are here! We finally had our first figs of the year this weekend, and words cannot adequately express how excited I am. I feel like my first fig sighting is always one of the best days of the...
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Baked yeast doughnuts with hibiscus glaze.
The first time I had a Dough doughnut was at a little sun-drenched picnic about a year ago. Linda graced us with a floppy box brimming with gems from this shop I’d previously never heard of (I live...
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Blood orange hibiscus spritzers.
Thank you to Sanpellegrino for sponsoring this post and providing the products used in this recipe! All statements and opinions are solely my own. It’s been hot again this week! I love it. Just as...
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Lavender goat cheese cheesecakes.
Before these little cheesecakes, my cheesecake experience was solely and shamelessly limited to this — the seven-ingredient recipe on the back of the Philadelphia cream cheese box. It was five...
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Brown butter-oat pancakes with caramelized bananas and bourbon whip.
You know what I really love (besides pancakes)? The things that you just know are going to be good before you get to try them. Black sesame soft-serve. This nubbly sweater that just came in the...
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Olive oil ice cream sundaes.
This weekend I killed a mosquito! All on my own! (It should say a lot about my capability as a human that this is news.) I feel like combating wily mosquitoes in old, not-quite-insulated apartments...
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Hot honeycomb candy
I can’t decide what I’m more excited about sharing this morning. This honeycomb candy, feathery-crisp with a subtle heat, dunked gleefully into dark chocolate, and perfectly Halloween-color-schemed,...
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Date & maple butter tarts
So I think I’m about five years late to this party. But I am newly, and really, obsessed with dates. They are so good. How are they so good? I don’t know how I was so woefully misinformed, but up...
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Apple pie hotteok (Korean stuffed pancakes)
We’re scheduled to fly back to Hawaii in a little less than a month, and an email has already landed in our inboxes from my adorable mother-in-law, asking whether we want galbi or spicy ahi poke when...
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Sticky date cinnamon rolls
Hi friends! How was your Thanksgiving? We spent ours with my parents and my brother last week, in a couple of slow, wonderful days at home. It was pretty exciting — we sat around and told the same...
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Peppermint mochi
Oh man, it’s been not-enough-hours-in-the-day days around here lately. Most of the time it is safe to ignore me when I say that because I spend about half my waking hours huffing to B2 about the...
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Fig jam & goat cheese thumbprint cookies
We’re in Hawaii! I had a filing the night before that kept me in the office about a million hours later than I expected, we packed half the things we meant to pack and none of our laundry, but we made...
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Chamomile lemon poppy seed loaf cake
If you couldn’t tell from this blog, B2 and I are about the unfanciest people in the world. Most of the time, being a lawyer is just as unfancy (and for me generally consists of (a) sitting at a...
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