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Taste Buds: Cottage Pie – Shepherd’s Pie with Beef

So last time, we went to Morocco. Now, with all my sabbatical planning for England, it was inevitable for me to crave for shepherd’s pie. BUT not exactly shepherd’s pie, but what the English call as cottage pie. What’s the difference? One thing. The meat. Beef instead of lamb. Anyone who knows me well can [...]

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Taste Buds: Moroccan Chicken Soup with Couscous

I always have lots of fun when one of the ingredients in my dish is couscous. It’s really because it’s one of those “just add water” things that enlarge when they absorb the liquid. In reality, there’s not much to it, but it is reminiscent of my childhood full of playing outdoors with my friends, [...]

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Taste Buds: Tiramisu Parfait

I have posted a tiramisu recipe once before here on Taste Buds, and that is definitely still my number one. However, for Chef’s birthday dinner last month, I decided to try this quickie version I found on Foodista. I remember revising the recipe a bit just to taste so the one below is based on [...]

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Taste Buds: Delectable Molten Chocolate Cake

According to Chef, this has propelled to the number one spot of my most successful desserts. Winter calls for some warm desserts so actually, for the past couple of months, we’ve been ordering molten chocolate cake, aka chocolate lava cake, pretty much everywhere. The one from Bottega has been my favorite so far, which inspired [...]

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Taste Buds: Spanish Rice that’s not Paella

Chef and I have been together for 6 years and I never learned how to make Spanish rice until now. I love it, obviously, and I can’t get enough of it whenever we have Mexican food. We discussed over and over what this really is called because it’s been labeled as Spanish rice, though it’s [...]

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Taste Buds: Russian Tea Cakes

Happy Holidays, one and all!! Yes, yes, my greeting, along with blogposts, are a tad bit delayed. Nonetheless, it’s never too late for a good dessert recipe. There’s actually quite a story behind my Russian Tea Cake mini obsession. Three years ago, I took an interim position at another department and met a funny group [...]

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Le Critique: Hole in the Wall: The Melt

The Melt New Montgomery 115 New Montgomery Street San Francisco, CA 94105 Grilled cheese. American classic. So utterly simple. Get someone like Jonathan Kaplan, founder of the Flip camera, to complicate it and make it simple all over again. This guy made several hundreds of millions of dollars when he sold Flip to Cisco. The [...]

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IDesign: Shapes and Figure/Grounds

When I started design school, my professor said, “believe me, you will never look at space the same way again.” I didn’t believe her much because I felt that for someone who’s forte is not in space planning, I have a pretty good grasp of how areas should be laid out. But, I was determined [...]

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Music and Lyrics: What’s In A Name – Late Night Alumni

For the life of me, I do not know why I have not posted a Late Night Alumni song! In this age of Pandora, I do not have music on my iPhone anymore except for a couple faves: Dave Matthews Band, Jack Johnson, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Bossa N’ Marley, AND, LATE NIGHT ALUMNI! We [...]

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Taste Buds: Tomato Dinner

Fall may have started, but this past summer, the cooking club gathered again for our quarterly meet-up. To shake things up from the way we did things before, which was to pick a specific cuisine, this time, we picked a secret ingredient. And what’s the most summery ingredient out there?! Tomatoes!! We welcomed a new [...]

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Music and Lyrics: Destiny by Zero 7

Going back to the classics today, guys. I was driving around town today, running errands, picked up the dry cleaning, and this song plays. Though this song is about a decade old, whenever I hear this song, it takes me back to circa 2005. Then, I just moved to my apartment and was just [...]