beansprouts – (pl. n.) tiny thoughts from the brain of a Tinabeans
I’ve made pork tenderloin before many times, but it was always hard to tell when it got done, and whether it would be juicy or a log of shoe leather by the end. I also could never seem to get a nice crust on the outside. So finally I decided to get down to learning…
I love French onion soup in restaurants, the way they come in a little clay bowl all bubbling over with melty cheesy goodness. They can do that because they can stick the whole bowl in a hot oven and let it broil the bejesus out of the cheese. But we can’t, mostly because my mom…
Today I tried to make a roll cake again. I think I know now why the cake wreck blog took off so quickly, and why it’s actually gotten popular enough to be made into a book. Cakes are immensely prone to wrecks. At every stage of the process, from mixing the batter to baking to…
Mochi is one of those “projects” I’ve been meaning to make for a long time, along with bread and Mexican mole. The bread I’ve tried before and it was a failure. Mole… don’t have all the ingredients and may never. But today I finally made mochi.