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CRACKLY PORCHETTA AND SWEET GORGONZOLA SANDWICH
[ezcol_1half] I want to tell you about my trip back in New York in extensive details, I really do. But I’m jet-lagged… drowsy… sleepy but awake… awake but not really… and the only words I can pound out of my marshmallow of a brain right now, repeating itself in an almost undetectable frequency, are these: I’m sorry,…
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SUPPLE SLOW-COOKED SOY SAUCE CHICKEN RICE
[ezcol_1half] Sometimes ideas arise upon the complete rejection of another. This recipe is a perfect example of such. The other day (I say “the other day” a lot, which really means “last year”), I was watching this video on YouTube, a michelin-starred chef explaining how to make his “perfect roast chicken”. Curious, so I watched, as he…
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SICHUAN ANGRY BOILING FISH
IT TRANSFORMS WHAT IS OTHERWISE AN UNDESIRABLE AND THEREFORE CHEAP INGREDIENT, INTO THE UPMOST ADDICTIVE, DELICIOUS, AND PLEASURABLE NARCOTIC. [ezcol_1third] It’s crazy sometimes to think that I’ve only left Beijing for 6 months. It somehow feels longer than that, which is funny because shouldn’t happy time fly? But I think my brain has triggered an automatic mechanism…
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SICHUAN PEPPERCORN BLUEBERRY OATMEAL PIE
[ezcol_1half] A SERIOUSLY FLAKEY PIE WITH BLUEBERRIES SCENTED WITH FLORAL SICHUAN PEPPERCORNS, MYSTERIOUS AND SUBTLE, AND CREAMY OATMEAL ON THE BOTTOM TO SOAK IT ALL UP [/ezcol_1half] [ezcol_1half_end] Easy as pie. I’m sorry. Was that supposed to be funny? Pies are anything but easy. In fact, it took me two years of really, really, humiliatingly…
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France Part II, and chicken w/ morels and rice pilaf
[ezcol_1half] ONE OF THE BEST DISHES I COOKED. I AGREE. [/ezcol_1half] [ezcol_1half_end] Lourmarin is what it promises, a picturesque village in the Luberon region in Provence, and more. No matter what kind of cynicism you bring along, or distaste for anything that seems to fit too squarely into Martha Stewart magazines, you come here, you…
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FRANCE PART I, and Lyonnaise sausage w/ warm beans and sage butter
[ezcol_1half] All the best things in life are clichés. Paris, is a cliché. I’ve fought consciously throughout my adult life not to fall for it, or at the very least, say it out loud, fearing I’ll sound like a girl wanting to model or a guy in a sports car. It oozes unoriginality. But in…
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CHEDDAR SNOW BRUNCH CAKE
[ezcol_1fifth] [/ezcol_1fifth] [ezcol_3fifth] GRATED WHITE CHEEDAR! ON CREAM CHEESE FROSTING!! ON TOP OF EGGY SPONGE CAKES!!! Hey, what’s up? I’m in the middle of my France cross-country road-trip! But to make you feel good as well, here’s a cheddar snow brunch cake! It’s got double layers of sponge cake, loads of cream cheese frosting, and yes!,…
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CHICKEN SATE W/ “DIRTY” PEANUT SAUCE
[ezcol_1half] WHY NOW? WHY THEN? NO REASON. IT WAS JUST A SWITCH TURNED ON, LIKE THE DAY WHEN A GIRL STARTS TO LIKE A BOY. Craving, is a strange thing. It’s been 8 years since the first and last time I visited the island of Bali, and not in the almost 3 decades before nor…
