Homemade Teochew style mooncakes filled with purple sweet potato. Happy mid-autumn festival!

Laduree finally opens in NYC with massive lines. Is it worth the wait? Yes, absolutely.

If you're like me, you are getting a boatload of kale in your CSA share; finally, a recipe that makes me HAPPY to get kale!

Mooncake molds aren't just for making mooncakes...they make awesome molded cookies, too!

My first time making and canning jam wasn't a disaster! Peach-ginger with surplus peaches from my CSA.

Sour Cherry Cobbler with biscuit topping. Yum.

It's Pi(e) Day--like I needed an excuse to make and eat pie....

More baking for Chinese New Year-pineapple tarts with homemade pineapple jam

What could be more perfect for the Year of the Rabbit than cute bunny cookies?

(Slightly mutated) Domokun cookies.

Cheddar scallion scones are cheesy, slightly spicy, and delicious enough to make me want to turn the oven on in this heat.

After many years (and many plates of them) I've hit upon my ideal dumpling recipe.

Anisette toasts/biscotti. Great with tea or coffee...or all by themselves

A simple and refreshing coconut tapioca dessert drink/soup

I try to recreate chocolate rolls from my favorite Zurich bakery

Boring old chocolate cookies? Think again! These are filled with caramel for a tasty surprise.

It's not too late to celebrate Chinese New Year- make coconut sticky rice cake!

I got to meet one of my heroes, Dorie Greenspan at her pop up cookie shop! Cookies baked BY Dorie!

A dead easy recipe for almond tofu (aka xingren dofu or annindofu)

Chocolate Raspberry Cream Tarts--a woeful baking tale. Help me use up a huge bowl of raspberry cream!

Okay, they may be round, but they're still delicious lemon bars!

Happy birthday....to me! Celebrating with a fruit and cream cake.

In which I get a box of fabulous, amazing macarons from Paulette

Playing with food: Tintin in "The Land of Giant Brownies"