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MADRID, plus how to throw a tapas party
[ezcol_1half] In the past few years, for more times than I’d like to admit, I have allowed myself to dance dangerously around a question that is as simple as it is complicated, as imaginable as it is hopeless, a secret irritation that haunts us all who have ever fell in love with a corner of…
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WEDNESDAY’S THROW-IT-TOGETHER TEXAS SHEET CAKE
[ezcol_1half] I didn’t intend to sneak a cake recipe in between my travel-inspired posts, but this is the easiest-yet-delicious cake recipe I have yet to encounter, and I think you should do it. Look, I’m not exactly a practician of 30-minute meals. I don’t mind getting down and dirty with a recipe for the better part…
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LISBON, PLUS SURF’N TURF PORK BELLY AND SHRIMP SAUSAGE SANDWICH
[ezcol_1third] After what seemed as long as forever, but now, feels as short as a blink of an eye, five weeks of traveling in and out of 6 different countries, I am now, finally, back home. It is difficult, if not impossible, to sum up a journey as long as this one in one post. …
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SANDY OLD MAN ON X’MAS
[ezcol_1fifth] [/ezcol_1fifth] [ezcol_3fifth] ONCE THESE PIPING HOT, LIGHT AND AIRY DONUTS HIT WHAT I CALL THE “CHRISTMAS SAND”, THE HOUSE WILL INSTANTLY SMELL LIKE SWEET, BUTTERY AND EGGY HOLIDAY SPIRIT. Quickly leaving you today with something awesome I discovered in Hong Kong. And it comes with a funny name, too, called Sandy Old Man! I found…
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SPICY CURED YOLK RICE BOWL
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Needle point pasta in light blue cheese sauce
[ezcol_1fifth] [/ezcol_1fifth] [ezcol_3fifth] IF YOU LIKE STUBBY AND CHEWY PASTAS, LIKE ORECCHIETTE, YOU’RE GONNA LOVE THIS Are you still waiting for your simple, elegant, next go-to dinner party recipe that you can strut out in front of an impressed crowd and say “oh this? I just pulled it out of the fridge“? Well, this one is mine. In case…
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MACAO’S PORK CHOP PINEAPPLE BUN
[ezcol_1fifth] [/ezcol_1fifth] [ezcol_3fifth] IT CAN’T BE RIGHT. IT SHOUDN’T BE RIGHT. BUT IT MIRACULOUSLY IS. History had it, that whenever two polar opposite cultures are smashed together, often under reluctant or even violent circumstances, despite hardships and losses, something mutated but beautiful eventually comes out at the other end. That something, is usually food. No doubt that…
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OYSTER GUMBO POT PIE
[ezcol_1fifth] [/ezcol_1fifth] [ezcol_3fifth] INSTEAD OF BEING SERVED WITH RICE, THIS FOOLPROOF AND INTENSE OYSTER GUMBO IS BAKED… BUBBLING UNDERNEATH A DRAPERY OF FLAKEY PIE-CRUST MADE WITH COLD APPLE JUICE [/ezcol_3fifth] [ezcol_1fifth_end] [/ezcol_1fifth_end] [ezcol_1third][/ezcol_1third] [ezcol_1third][/ezcol_1third] [ezcol_1third_end][/ezcol_1third_end]
