One of my favorite books is The New Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day: The Discovery That Revolutionizes Home Baking. This gem of a book allowed me to try bread making fearlessly. I’ve been wanting to try making challah, a pretty little braided bread, because the braiding looked simultaneously interesting …
Has it really been a year? This food blog started upon the prodding of my youngest sister. She knew that I was a woman with a mission: learn how to bake from scratch. After I received a brazo de mercedes lesson from my brother-in-law on Christmas Day 2013, I began 2014 …
Last Saturday, hubby and I went on a totally not food-related adventure in the city – the 2015 New York International Auto Show at the Javits Center. While food was available there, we still ended up in Chinatown because hubby was pining for Chinese food. We went to our family’s favorite – Hop …
Back in 2013, a friend and I went on a day trip to Batangas to check out some of its old churches. The Philippines is a country with a Catholic majority, so there are plenty of gorgeous old churches to see (some admittedly needing restoration, but still). I’ve always admired the architecture and wanted to …
In case you’re wondering if I’ll buy the Wholly Wholesome pie shells after using them for my Quiche Lorraine and Egg Pie experiments, actually, I already did! I ended up making two quiches – Quiche Lorraine and Country Quiche Lorraine. What’s the difference? All I noticed is that the latter has …
One of our favorite restaurants here in Danbury is the only Korean restaurant in the Greater Danbury area – Edo II. Edo II is actually a Korean and Japanese restaurant. You can also go here for Japanese food, but we’ve never tried their Japanese food, so I can’t comment on that. …
