I love most of Chinese pastries. One particular pastry is my favorite, green bean pastry. Unfortunately, I can not buy them in my city. So, where can you buy these kind of pastries? well, the nearest store is about 100 miles away from Erie. Luckily, …

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Mochi is one of my favorite snacks. I remembered when I was small, whenever we passed by Cianjur, a small city on the way to Jakarta, we would stop by a snack store and I always requested my father to buy me mochi. Many times, the mochi in Cianjur wa…

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The weather has been hot and humid in Erie lately. This afternoon’s temperature went up to 90 F. Ideally, I should not bake, but I could not resist trying my used but new to me "bread maker". This new assistant of mine’s jobs are to mix the ingredients and to rise the dough. So this afternoon, I prepared the ingredients, put them in bread maker pan and waited for the dough to rise. It only

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Last month, my friend posted in Facebook that she was about to enjoy her pisang Bollen and that make me thought of my hometown, Bandung. I remembered my friends always asked me to buy some pisang bollens every time I went home.Pisang bollen is a must t…

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"Let’s go to Buffalo!" my husband said two days ago. I was not too excited to go as we visited Buffalo often. Buffalo, NY is our neighboring city and it takes us only one and a half hour to drive there. Over a few years, we knew some friends in Buffalo and thus we visited Buffalo many times. This time, my husband said, we are going to see a folk festival. It was held in Nia-wanda Park, in the

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Most mornings I like to call one of my Indonesian friends here in Erie and chat about food.A few days ago, she told me that she just bought a bag of frozen cassava. Mind you, it is not easy to find cassavas here. Many times, we have to go to Cleveland/…

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Pumpkin Pot de Creme…I love the name of this dessert. A few weeks ago, my friend, Ira posted her beautiful pictures of pumpkin pot de creme. They were so beautiful that I wanted to try making it. And also as my husband and my daughter are pumpkin p…

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There are days when I am into baking and that was the day when I made these delicious cookies. Peanut Butter cookies were my choice simply because these cookies were easy to make. That day was also a homeschool day thus I included Amanda to help me w…

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Looking for a last minute holiday treat to give as a gift or simply for the family gatherings. These soft pretzels like the ones you get at the mall or from street vendors will delight everyone especially when you have a mustard dip or cheese dip to …

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