Friday, May 23, 2014

s'more cupcakes

If you have been baking for a long time, you already know that s'more cupcakes are nothing new. However, you will find that the modular nature of s'more ingredients leads to a variety of interpretations when it comes to translating this campfire dessert into cupcake form. Today, I will share mine.

Image 1. My s'more cupcake
Fun fact: I finally bought a piping bag, but I had my kitchen redone and I lost it in the process. That would be why the frosting looks like white poo. A tragic tale, indeed.

Tuesday, May 13, 2014

WNTD: Wonton wrapper ravioli

Welcome to my new segment, "What Not To Do (WNTD)," in which I share my various culinary catastrophes with you. The first post is a pretty epic one, so I'm not sure how I'm ever going to top this...but moving on.

As you may or may not know, I had previously vowed to never make ravioli from scratch again after the Great Ravioli Adventure of Valentine's Day 2014. However, I had heard through the proverbial grapevine that wonton wrappers make excellent ravioli shells, so when I ran into some at the grocery store, I naturally had to pick them up.

Image 1. Innocent wonton wrappers...or are they?

Monday, May 5, 2014

Bulgogi

For a while I debated whether to put this on my MOTD section or in here, because while I technically have a recipe, it is nearly identical to my Korean-style baby back ribs recipe, which makes this whole post rather redundant. After much rumination, I decided that I had to share, partly because the recipe turned out so well and partly because it is my first true Korean recipe on this blog.

Bulgogi (불고기) roughly translates to English as "fire-roasted beef," which I always thought was odd; how else would you roast beef if not with fire? Nevertheless, bulgogi is also the most universally loved Korean dish in existence; even if you've never had Korean food before, you will enjoy this.

Image 1. Bulgogi marinating