I don’t like making pastry. Well, I didn’t like making pastry. Now, I feel mostly neutral about it. That’s because I’ve made a concerted effort over the past few months to overcome a lifelong aversion to it via self-inflicted exposure therapy. There have been a …
Pfft. Every post can’t just be excuses about why I haven’t been posting, so I am going to try to at least tack a recipe on the end this time around. Feel free to skip to the end if that’s what you’re after. I have been …
I’ve already gone on and on about maesil before, but to briefly recap, maesil are small green fruit that grow on maehwa trees, an East Asian relative of apricot and plum trees. We are lucky enough to have some maesil trees in our front garden, …
I am a fiend for soup and stews. I have a theory that there are two types of people in this world: those who eat ramen for the noodles and those who eat ramen for the broth. I fall into the latter category. I think …
Listen. When you live in a foreign country, sometimes things are different. Like apples, for example. Making apple pie in Seoul is hard. It’s hard not just because you may have to go to a special market to find a pie pan, or because you …