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Shanghainese Mooncakes for Mid-Autumn Festival: Our Annual Tradition
中秋节快乐！祝您和家人花好月圆，阖家幸福! We made our annual tradition of Shanghainese mooncakes!
A Quick Stop in Amalfi, Italy: Lemons and Old Friendships
Lemons in her purse: a quick stop in Amalfi before high-tailing it back to children and work, to celebrate very old friendships (some of us have been friends since we were children and in primary school!) and my favourite fashionista finding her forever love.
I Ate a Bite of My Banana Cake: A School Apology Letter
"I am sorry I ate a bite of my banana cake. I was famished and felt dizzy, it was delicious. I was afraid the lack of glucose would affect my concentration in class. I promise I will have a full breakfast before school."
Tarte au Citron: A Lemon Tart Ten Years in the Making
Remember the scene from the movie The Illusionist where the elderly magician embedded a secret in a tree trunk as a young man, where the trick is just time, patience and vengeance? Feeling crazy satisfied today making a tarte au citron with lemons I grew myself, from a stunted sapling that we didn't give up on for years, because it was a gift from a dear friend.
Homemade Macarons: Pistachio, Raspberry Gelee and Salted Caramel
I don't think I've baked anything exacting in the last half-year; it's been hard in this season of change, to prioritize it. It's actually been challenging really to prioritize anything I want to do for myself, I joke that my life schedule is work, kids and Paynow — in that order.
Penang Travel: Peranakan Architecture, Shophouses and Street Food
Penang, so pretty with its Peranakan coromandel, contemporary shophouses and silicon tech park, all in a sweltering heat.
Lemon Meringue Pie to Calm Myself
Made a new lemon meringue form factor to calm myself. It didn't work but it was delicious.
Stranger Things Birthday Cake for a 17th Birthday
Indulge me, this might be the last birthday cake we make (together) her. Stranger Things coded dinner party for her friends, who were lovely — charming, talented and brimming with potential and passions.
Havasupai, AZ — from the surface, the Grand Canyon is just a big hole in the ground, the way to really appreciate it is to trek into it. I would have never chosen this way to descend and experience the Grand Canyon but feel very privileged to have had the opportunity to do so with old friends.