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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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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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Le Critique: Hole in the Wall: Bouchon in Napa Valley

Bouchon 6534 Washington Street Yountville, California 94599 707.944.8037 Recently, I posted about a visit to Yountville, where I raved about the land of Thomas Keller, in a quaint town in Napa Valley reminiscent of Europe. It could have easily been one of my French, Spanish or Greek holidays taken or to be taken. Travel is [...]

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Wanderlust: A Jaunt to Yountville

There are just definitely those times when a quick trip to somewhere new becomes a wonderful surprise leaving you in awe and excitement at the same time. Times when you thought you were going to one place then you suddenly changed the plans and went somewhere else for practicality’s sake but then wondered why that [...]

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Taste Buds: Quick Dinner with Super Easy Parmesan Chicken

This is a perfect dinner when you don’t have much time to prepare dinner. Not to mention pretty much all the ingredients are stuff you already have in your pantry. It takes about 15 minutes to prep and 15-20 minutes to cook. Very tasty and moist. It was a winner again to Chef’s taste but [...]