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photograph of glass filled with overnight oats garnished with dried cherries and orange slices and pistachios

[recipe review] overnight oats with pistachios

This may be a third recipe review from the same book, “Cooking for Wizards, Warriors and Dragons” because the first recipe was only partly done so I didn’t review, and the second one was just an Asian dish I could make any day. This one was different and interesting, but sadly I thought I didn’t …

photograph of classic lolita cream floral print dress from Bodyline worn with Metamorphose socks and Secret Shop shoes

[fashion] French afternoon tea & classic lolita

Just a quick report of the afternoon tea I treated myself to for my birthday (uhh 1 week afterwards because that was the only time I thought I could get off) on April 1st. I researched all of the afternoon/high tea places in the area and I finally decided on this location I have never …

Italian style potato salad with various vegetables and dressing

[recipe review] recent less good food I made

I’ve been extra careful with making my recipe review posts previously , but I decided to make a compilation post of several recent recipes that were all right but I didn’t feel like making a separate post because they did not come from a cookbook I wanted to review or didn’t turn out that great. …

photo of four very homemade sfogliatelle Italian pastries covered with powdered sugar

[recipe review] sfogliatelle Sopranos style

February’s recipe is from one of the said newer cookbooks I’ve obtained, the Soprano’s Family Cookbook as compiled by Artie Bucco that I randomly found at Half-Price Books! Note, I haven’t really watched the Sopranos, although I was interested in the Mafia and organized crime drama (not real life organized crime obviously) for many years, …

photograph of plum and cherry crostata

[recipe review] plum cherry crostata

I have acquired a new fan cookbooks or regular cookbooks, but I have yet to choose a recipe from them so I am repeating recipes from previous cookbooks especially those that didn’t turn out ugly lol. First up is this gorgeous plum and cherry crostata. I found this recipe in a Food and Wine September …

pounded cucumber salad with dressing and garlic

[recipe review] pounded peerless cucumber salad.

Have you ever grown to sort of tolerate a food you didn’t like before? I am feeling that way with mushrooms and cucumbers these days. I still don’t like zucchini and squash besides pumpkin though. Here is another recipe from the Scum Villain cookbook zine, Proud Immortal Culinary Way, the Pounded Peerless Cucumber Salad. Salacious …

photograph of samosa puffs

[recipe review] Samosa Puffs

I actually made this recipe in August and got around to posting it now lol. This cookbook, “Good Enough” is by Leanne Brown, author of “Good and Cheap,” which I have made several recipes before because they were good and cheap. Unlike the previous book, this does not focus on cheapness, but includes personal essays …

[recipe review] Korean doenjang stew 2 ways

I’m back with a recipe review! This time it’s comparing 2 different doenjjang (fermented soybean paste) stews, both from internet chef influencers. I wasn’t familiar with Korean food until later in life (late twenties?) when my friends and I went to Korean barbecue because of osmosis influence or proximity from Japanese cuisine and then a …