Almond Cookies

Ah, the Chinese almond cookie. Last time I was out with A and some coworkers, we started talking about how awesome they were. Since I had some leftover ground up almonds after making Nigella’s Damp Almond Lemon Cake (post coming soon), I decided to make some Chinese almond cookies.

Smoked Salmon Profiteroles

When someone says the word “profiterole,” the thing that usually comes to mind is a cream puff – it happens to be the most well-known form of a profiterole, which is made with choux paste.
Here’s the educational part of this post. Choux paste is a form of pastry dough that’s commonly used for cream puffs, [...]

Level III – SF: Union Square

I love Dine About Town because you get to wine and dine at places that you normally wouldn’t due to the associated price tag. And if the food ends up being sucky, then at least it wasn’t an expensive mistake. Unfortunately, my experience at Level III falls into this category.
Level III is in the SF [...]

Apples + Peanut Butter, Part Deux

Ah, these cupcakes. I am determined to perfect them! After having forgotten the egg last time and receiving yet another bag of apples from C, I had to make the Peanut Butter Apple Cupcakes again.
Sadly, I liked my “mistake” version so much better. The addition of the egg this time totally detracted from the peanut [...]

One Market – SF: Financial District

The Three Marketeers strike again! We have reconvened for 2009’s Dine About Town at One Market.
It was both a happy and sad occasion: TGD being heavily pregnant, and S breaking the news that she’ll be moving back to Virginia. Ahhh, how I wail at the thought! In the end, I guess we’re all doing what [...]

Vanillekranse

The Danish have given us so much. Legos, breakfast pastries, Hans Christian Andersen, Aqua, and vanillekranse. Vanillekranse, aka “vanilla wreath,” are THE holiday cookie in Denmark.
My friend and old co-worker, who I like to call “The Great Dane,” allowed me the privilege to try her grandmother’s vanillekranse – homemade and shipped straight from Denmark. Ever [...]

Challenge: Apples + Peanut Butter

So C, my coworker, has an apple tree or a friend with an apple tree or something. Whenever he brings in a bag of apples to work, I take some with the promise of bringing back baked apple goodness for the office.
Apple pie, apple bread, apple cobbler, apple tart… I could’ve resorted to any of [...]

Yamo – SF: Mission

Maybe Burmese food isn’t for me. Yamo came to me through Yelp, with a 4/5 star rating, yet I wasn’t impressed. Being my first foray into Burmese food though, I’ll save my final judgement until after I’ve tried some of the other highly rated places like Burma Superstar.
So Yamo is a die-hard foodie’s dream. It’s [...]

Candybar – SF: Western Addition/Alamo Square

Booze + Dessert = Win?
J and I hadn’t seen each other in ages, so we decided to meet up at Candybar on Fulton @ Divisadero to catch up.
Candybar attempts to distinguish itself as a dessert bar, so naturally I walked into the place expecting some sort of confectionary marvel to hit my taste buds in [...]

It’s going to be a tasty ride, folks.

Well here I am. My first post. This blog is long overdue for me. I sat around for a long time contemplating what I could offer to the slew of food blogs that already exist out there.
I finally came to the conclusion that although I might not be inventing new recipes here, at the [...]