High Tea Afternoon

Exotic World Recipes, Food Trends & Gadgets, Restaurant reviews, Traditions

On the last dinner with the CEE dinner group I met a new member and we really hit it off on a possible friendship level. She also seemed to be quite the foodie and said she worked as a concierge in a hotel downtown. As a concierge she often gets free invites to...

Mooncakes, Happy Mid-Autumn Festival

Evelyne's Unusuals, Events, Exotic World Recipes, Food Trends & Gadgets, Traditions

Please cast you vote for me to be the next food blog star! Just click here for my official entry Thank you! Voting end Sept 23rd 6opm PST, hurry! Today, September 22nd, Chinese people around the globe will be celebrating the fifteenth day of the eighth month of the...

Preserve as I Say, not as I Do

Breakfast Brunch Recipes, Instructions 101, Traditions

The September 2010 Daring Cooks’ challenge was hosted by John from Eat4Fun. John chose to challenge The Daring Cooks to learn about food preservation, mainly in the form of canning and freezing. He challenged everyone to make a recipe and preserve it....

Citrus Mezcal Sherbet

Drink recipes, Exotic World Recipes, Ice Cream and Frozen Recipes, Instructions 101, Traditions

After the Fruit Dropping Party I had a large amount of cut up citrus fruit leftovers. What to do? That will come in a future post but from this recipe I had still an unused portion, about 1 cup, of boiled down citrus flavored sugar syrup made with oranges, grapefruit,...

Thursday’s Thingamajig: Bread is Pain, or is it?

Bread Recipes, Cookbooks, Food Trends & Gadgets, Instructions 101, Traditions

So what where those 2 mystery pictures? First was, as many guessed, risen bread dough. My container was too small and the dough mushroomed out, pretty funny. So when I tossed half out I got that stringy air filled dough. Second pic is a close up of the VIP dinner...

Urban Gardening: Cherry Tomatoes

Food Trends & Gadgets, Traditions

A little while back I told you about my summer plan: attempt to grow some cherry tomatoes on my 18th floor balcony. I think the idea started off from a lunch time conversation at work. Someone said if you have a big container you can grow tomatoes. I never even...